Omm IT Solutions - Senior Cloud Architect (Consultants)

Cloud Developer is needed in Montreal, United States.

Client: Omm IT Solutions

Location: Montreal, QC, ca

Contract: Freelance

Job Description

This is a 100% Remote position in Canada, with a preference for candidates located in the EST/CST Time Zones. The responsibilities of the role include:

• Contributing towards defining and maintaining cloud architecture standards and design strategies.
• Engaging with internal stakeholders to capture business requirements and translating them into secure, scalable, cost-efficient cloud solutions.
• Assessing current cloud technologies to ensure alignment with business goals and efficiency targets.
• Facilitating the smooth transition of Digital/GTM solutions from sandbox or development environments into production, ensuring proper governance and deployment practices.
• Leading or guiding the deployment of complex cloud solutions with hands-on ownership when necessary, ensuring smooth operational transition.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams and managed partners to deliver consistent, standardized cloud services.
• Producing architecture documents, standards, policies, and operational handover materials.
• Participating in governance forums such as architecture and change reviews.
• Identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements, implementing them according to existing enterprise automation framework and tooling.
• Interfacing with operation teams to ensure seamless transition of cloud services into operations.
• Overseeing cloud migration projects, including planning, execution, and optimization.
• Reviewing new cloud offerings for organizational alignment.

Requirements

Technical Requirements

• Extensive experience with a wide range of Cloud (Azure) services, such as Virtual Machines, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and others.
• Strong background in cloud architecture best practices, including high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools, such as Cloud Migrate and database migration services.
• Expertise in Azure architecture, automation (IaC, CI/CD), identity, networking, and security best practices.
• Extensive experience in IaC and automation tooling including Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Init, Azure CLI, Python/Powershell, Git, GitHub Action Workflows, and Docker.
• Understanding of general and cloud-specific networking stack.
• Experience in building and implementing Azure Policies.
• Experience integrating cost-governance (FinOps) considerations into architecture decisions.
• Strong background in producing high and low-level designs across multi-vendor cloud ecosystems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of hands-on cloud architecture and design experience in large, distributed enterprise environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Architect or in a similar role.
• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Additional Information

• This position is fully remote in Canada and prefers candidates from the EST/CST time zones.