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Job Title: Cloud infrastructure engineer/Architect
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)
Duration: 6 months + Possible Extensions
Qualifications:
· 10+ years IT experience, including 5+ years in enterprise, cloud, infrastructure, or network architecture
· Strong cloud architecture experience — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, hybrid cloud, and/or multi-cloud
· Broad infrastructure knowledge — networking, compute, storage, virtualization, hosting, backup/DR, resiliency, and security
· Experience defining current-state/target-state architecture, roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns
· Cloud/infrastructure modernization — migrations, workload placement, data center modernization, and technology lifecycle planning
· Experience with architecture governance/Architecture Review Boards and evaluating solutions against enterprise standards
· Ability to identify technical debt, infrastructure risk, resiliency gaps, and modernization opportunities
· Strong cross-functional communication with engineering, security, application, operations, business, and leadership teams
· Valuable technical experience: VMware, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, IaC/DevOps, and networking/security
· Strong pluses: TOGAF/cloud certifications, FinOps, LeanIX/ServiceNow, regulated-industry experience, and Zero Trust.