Cloud CCoE Lead / Principal Multi-Cloud Architect (AWS & Azure)

Cloud CCoE Lead / Principal Multi-Cloud Architect (AWS & Azure)

Location: Dallas, TX / New Jersey
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 2 Days/Week in Office

We are seeking an experienced cloud leader to establish and mature an enterprise Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) across AWS and Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate will drive cloud strategy, enterprise architecture, governance, automation, operational readiness, and cost optimization across global cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Strategy & CCoE Establishment

• Define CCoE charter, operating model, organizational structure, roles, responsibilities, and RACI.

• Develop cloud strategy and architecture roadmap aligned with enterprise goals.

• Establish governance forums, decision processes, operating procedures, and reporting.

• Define cloud service selection criteria, budgeting principles, and service catalogues.

Multi-Cloud Architecture & Security

• Design secure AWS and Azure landing zones, including account/subscription structures, IAM, SSO, policies, logging, and tagging.

• Define enterprise network and connectivity patterns.

• Develop reference architectures, right-sizing guidelines, and migration patterns.

• Establish architecture reviews, security standards, and compliance controls.

Cloud Engineering & Automation

• Define cloud architecture standards and reusable implementation patterns.

• Lead Terraform modules, infrastructure templates, scripts, and reusable blueprints.

• Establish version-controlled cloud code libraries and documentation.

• Integrate infrastructure testing, security checks, and release controls into CI/CD workflows.

SRE & Operational Readiness

• Define SLI/SLO standards, error budgets, and reliability measures.

• Establish observability standards for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.

• Develop incident response, escalation, post-mortem, and ITSM procedures.

• Define resilience patterns, chaos engineering, and operational readiness criteria.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

• Establish FinOps framework for cost ownership, tagging, allocation, budgeting, and reporting.

• Identify right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiering, and idle-resource optimization opportunities.

• Evaluate reserved capacity, savings plans, spot usage, and commercial commitments.

• Develop FinOps KPI dashboards covering savings, waste reduction, and cost optimization.

Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Lead workshops and communicate recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

• Maintain multi-cloud portfolio dashboards and executive status reports.

• Track delivery risks, dependencies, adoption, and continuous improvement.

• Coordinate with quality and compliance teams for regulated workloads.

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