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Position:
Cloud Architect
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Location:
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Grand Rapids, MI
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Job Id:
1287
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# of Openings:
1
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Cloud Architect | Remote | Minneapolis or Michigan Preferred
Role Snapshot:
- Set the Vision: Shape cloud architecture strategies and solutions aligned to client business goals and Vervint's Enterprise Architecture methodology.
- Design the Solution: Create scalable, secure, and resilient Azure-based architectures, either independently or as part of multi-domain solutions.
- Engage the Client: Partner with stakeholders to understand needs, guide technology adoption, and deliver actionable architecture roadmaps.
- Lead Technically: Provide domain expertise, mentor team members, and guide delivery to ensure high-quality outcomes across engagements.
- Manage Risk & Delivery: Identify risks, define constraints, and ensure successful execution of architecture solutions.
- Enable Growth: Contribute to presales, solution shaping, and thought leadership to strengthen client relationships and drive new opportunities.
As a Cloud Architect you will work to design architectures and solutions as part of Vervint's Enterprise Architecture methodology. You will bring your subject matter expertise, working with clients to meet their business needs. Specifically, this role will create technical designs in one or more areas of expertise, either independently, or as part of a multi-domain solution headed by a Solution Architect. You will have conversations and host interviews with different stakeholders at various levels in customer organizations, such as:
- With client leadership to learn how best to adopt technologies, and the best practices to implement.
- With Solution Architects building multi-domain solutions for our customers.
- With an Enterprise Architect about building applications out of services, application security models, role-based access control or messaging patterns.
- With an IT Professional about the specific specialty.
What You'll Accomplish
Domain Expertise:
- Viewed as a domain expert internally, serving as a subject matter expert, creating technical designs for work delivered by Vervint, either as a stand-alone project focused on one technology/domain, or part of a larger solution bringing together multiple domains of expertise.
- Provide thought-leadership and guidance on architectural principles, patterns, and methodologies within your domain.
Client Engagement:
- Engage with clients to understand their business objectives, technical requirements, and challenges within your domain.
- Collaborate with clients to develop architecture strategies, roadmaps, and solutions that address their needs and align with their business goals.
- Develops new relationships with customer stakeholders and maintains relationships with client technology or business process ownership, often the manager or team lead of a client team that leverages the domain.
- Demonstrates thought leadership on engagements to steer clients to desired business outcomes.
Architecture Development:
- Create technical designs within your domain of focus for specific requirements.
- Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient, and secure architecture solutions within your domain of focus.
- Create architecture artifacts, including solution designs, technical specifications, and architecture diagrams, to communicate and document architectural solutions.
Technical Leadership:
- Participates in sprint planning, retros, and other needed ceremonies to ensure the team understands what each work item is, and how to go about the work to ensure it achieves the required outcomes.
- May play a technical project manager role on smaller, single-domain projects.
- Contributes to, or aligns, outcomes. Assembles the tasks and estimates of work for their specific domain's delivered outcomes.
- Mentor others that are working toward a Domain Architect role, actively initiating mentorship relationships with peers on the same team.
- Demonstrated leadership across 1-8 engagements.
Risk Management:
- Identify potential risks, issues, and dependencies related to architecture solutions within your domain.
- Define the key requirements, limitations, and assumptions that are needed to control risk.
- Work collaboratively with project teams and stakeholders to mitigate risks and ensure successful project delivery.
- Collaboration and Communication:
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and integration of architecture solutions.
- Participate in strategic planning organized by the Enterprise Architect, representing their domain.
- Communicate complex technical concepts, and architectural decisions clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provides input while contracts are drafted contracts.
Continuous Learning and Improvement:
- Stay updated on industry trends, new technologies, and best practices within your domain and help clients and other team members understand where the domain is going, and how that can be leverage in their strategy.
- Continuously assess and improve architectural processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance efficiency and quality.
What you'll Bring
- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure as a primary cloud platform, with hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade Azure environments.
- Subject matter expertise in Azure cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, and large-scale Landing Zone architecture, with fluency across adjacent domains such as identity, security, and governance.
- Strong understanding of cloud and on-premises architectural principles, including Azure Landing Zone design (Enterprise-Scale/ALZ), hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN topologies, network segmentation, and hybrid cloud integration patterns.
- Proven experience helping clients establish network connectivity from on-premises environments to Azure, including ExpressRoute, Site-to-Site VPN, Azure Virtual WAN, and BGP routing design.
- Deep familiarity with on-premises networking concepts (routing, switching, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, SD-WAN) and how they translate to Azure-native equivalents and hybrid architectures.
- Ability to design large-scale, multi-subscription Azure environments including management group hierarchies, policy frameworks, RBAC structures, and network topology for enterprise clients.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with clients and stakeholders at all levels. Experienced presenting to small internal and/or external groups.
- Experience developing new relationships with customer stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges.
- A mindset that is comfortable working at the intersection of technology and business.
- Relevant Azure certifications strongly preferred, particularly AZ-700 (Azure Network Engineer), AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert), or AZ-900/AZ-104 as foundational credentials.
Education/Experience
- Bachelor's degree, or master's degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field OR equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- At least 10 years of information technology or software development experience.
- At least 5 years of experience creating technical architectures in Azure, with a strong emphasis on cloud networking and hybrid connectivity, including demonstrated experience in the following areas:
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying Azure Landing Zones at enterprise scale, including management group design, policy-as-code (Azure Policy/Initiatives), subscription vending, and RBAC governance frameworks aligned to the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
- Deep proficiency in Azure networking services including Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, Site-to-Site and Point-to-Site VPN, Azure Firewall, Network Security Groups, Private Endpoints, DNS (private and public zones), and network traffic management (Azure Front Door, Load Balancer, Application Gateway).
- Demonstrated experience in on-premises network architecture (routing protocols such as BGP/OSPF, MPLS, SD-WAN, firewall platforms) and the ability to bridge on-premises network designs with Azure connectivity solutions including ExpressRoute circuits, route tables, and peering configurations.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates) for repeatable Landing Zone and network deployments, along with familiarity with Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, and tooling used to validate and troubleshoot complex hybrid network connectivity.
- At least 3 years of filling a lead technical role on a team, providing technical leadership, or acting as a technical project manager for one or more engagements.
You Belong. At Vervint, we embrace all facets of identity that make you - you. From race, gender identity, and veteran status to disabilities and more, your lived experiences enrich everyone around you. We know when we create an environment of safety and respect for individuals and their identities, we all do our best work. That is why we celebrate our diversity, foster equity, and champion inclusion within our company, the work we do, and our communities. As we work together, we commit to continuous growth, learning from our mistakes, and expanding on our caring culture to bring our values to life.
Vervint is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, familial status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status regarding public assistance or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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May 06, 2026 