Overview :
Seeking a highly experienced Cloud Architect to design and oversee robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions for enterprise environments in oil & gas and other regulated industries (energy, finance, government).
Key Responsibilities :
- Architect end-to-end cloud solutions (public, private, hybrid) with a focus on reliability, security, compliance, and scalability.
- Lead migration and modernization projects of mission-critical applications.
- Define cloud governance, access management, and security best practices.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Enable and operationalize AI / ML workloadsdeploying, scaling, and maintaining data pipelines and model inferencing on the cloud.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align cloud strategy with organizational Technical & AI / ML Skills :
- Deep knowledge of at least one leading cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience with cloud-native AI / ML services (e.g., AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, Google AI Platform), enabling secure integration and operationalization of models.
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) and AI-powered IaC generation tools.
- Cloud security (IAM, encryption, compliance frameworks), including governance for AI / ML pipelines.
- Application modernization (containers, Kubernetes, serverless architectures).
- CI / CD, cloud automation, and AI-powered scripting / plugins (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
- Enterprise networking concepts (VPC, VPN, hybrid connectivity).
- Monitoring, observability, and cost Skills :
- Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders.
- Proven leadership and mentoring of cross-functional teams.
- Strong problem-solving in high-stakes, regulated environments.
- Proactive in evaluating and introducing AI tools for productivity and process improvement.
(ref : hirist.tech)