
Senior Azure Cloud Architect
SES Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hanscom Air Force Base • Massachusetts • United States
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About the role
- Design and architect SCCA-aligned, scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions across Azure and others
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks
- Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements
- Implement / integrate with identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks
- Optimize Azure services, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.
- Support the design and development of Shared Services.
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud software systems.
- Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.
- Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management
- Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations
Requirements
- - Master’s Degree and 15+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- - Must have an active Secret clearance.
- - US citizenship required
- - Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
- - Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position
- - Experience administering Windows and Linux Servers, and related services
- - Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes
- - Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- - Experience with Azure console, Azure cloud services and architecture patterns, Ansible, Terraform/Terragrunt, Atlassian products, Git, and familiarity with Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA)
- **Technical Leadership**
- - Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- - Present architectural designs and recommendations to executive leadership
- - Provide leadership to engineering teams of 3 to 4 engineers and technical specialists on cloud-native capability design and deployment
- - Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions
Benefits
- **SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:**
- - Medical
- - Dental
- - Vision
- - AD&D
- - STD
- - LTD
- - Company paid Life Insurance
- - 401k with employer contribution
- - Paid Time Off
- - Pet Insurance
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureDevOps practicesinfrastructure as codesecurity assessmentsvulnerability remediationWindows Server administrationLinux Server administrationActive DirectoryAzure ADSQL systems
Soft Skills
customer serviceverbal communicationwritten communicationtechnical leadershipcollaborationstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingpresentation skillsteam leadershiporganizational skills
Certifications
Master’s DegreeSecret clearanceCompTIA Security+