Job Description
Title: Enterprise Solutions - Cloud Platform Architect
Job Type: Contract to Hire – 6 months+
Location: Plano, TX
Onsite/Travel Requirements: Hybrid Onsite – 3 Days Onsite/2 Remote
Eligibility: This role is not open to current or future sponsorship, or C2C partnerships
Job Description
Wright Technical Services is proud to represent leading Insurance Brokerage and Risk Management company
for this position. We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Platform Architect to lead the design, build, automation, and scaling of enterprise Azure cloud services. This is an individual contributor role for someone who leads technical direction through deep hands-on engineering, not people management.
The ideal candidate has strong Azure engineering experience and is passionate about Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform standardization, with the ability to lead advanced architecture discussions with senior executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management, and Developers.
Qualifications:
Required
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting Azure cloud environments.
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture more broadly.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or similar).
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks (GitHub, Azure DevOps).
- Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, security, and cloud governance best practices, including Conditional Access, RBAC, NSGs, and cloud firewalls.
- Experience with production support, incident response, and on-call troubleshooting in Azure.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell or similar).
- Proven AI-Assisted Engineering experience in infrastructure automation and cloud-operations
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
Preferred
- Experience supporting enterprise cloud transformation, standardization, or modernization initiatives.
- Experience with M&A-driven cloud infrastructure integration.
- Familiarity with Azure CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) and Well-Architected Framework.
- Experience working within regulated or compliance-driven enterprise environments.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
- Relevant Azure certifications preferred (Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
Core Competencies:
- Strong hands-on engineering and troubleshooting capabilities
- Continuous improvement and automation mindset
- Ability to work collaboratively across technical and business teams
- Ability to quickly learn and evaluate emerging cloud technologies
- Commitment to operational excellence, standardization, and platform reliability
Key Responsibilities:
Essential Duties and Functions
- Leads the design, build, deployment, and ongoing evolution of enterprise Azure cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, identity, storage, and security domains.
- Leads development of reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules (Terraform, Bicep, ARM) and automation frameworks — including scripting, Azure Automation, and CI/CD pipelines — to standardize provisioning, configuration, and deployment.
- Leads development of standardized, self-service deployment patterns (golden paths, templates) that advance platform engineering maturity across technology teams.
- Handles production support escalations for the Azure platform, including participation in an on-call rotation for incident response and troubleshooting.
- Leads disaster recovery planning and resiliency architecture for Azure environments, including failover design and DR testing.
- Integrates cloud solutions into existing enterprise infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Produces and maintains architecture/technical design documentation, deployment documentation, and engineering standards.
- Define enterprise cloud architecture principles and lead architecture reviews to enforce them.
- Drive AI-Assisted Engineering best practices by establishing standards and governance for AI-assisted SDLC, cloud anomaly detection and IaC automation.
- Lead the technical discovery, dependency mapping, architecture design and migration planning of complex enterprise workloads from physical data centers to Azure cloud environments.
- Collaborates with architects, security, networking, and development teams to implement governed, repeatable cloud solutions.
Physical Requirements (Necessary on a Regular Basis):
- Manual dexterity, arm, and upper body range of motion sufficient for use of a keyboard, mouse and telephone 7-8 hours per day.
- Speech and hearing sufficient for in-person and telephone communication 7-8 hours per day.
- Vision sufficient for use of a computer monitor.
- Ability to sit at a desk 7-8 hours per day.
- Available for travel up to 20%
Note: This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive statement of the duties of the position listed above. Other appropriate duties may be required from time to time.
Wright Technical Services and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
