Fairfield County Managed Service Provider is currently searching for a highly skilled, experienced, and hands on Senior Cloud Architect with a security mindset to lead the advancement of their cloud capabilities and drive innovation across their clients growing organizations.

Initial Objectives:

• Comprehensively review and analyze clients existing IT infrastructure and recommend a strategy and transition plan to move to the cloud.

• Develop a cloud governance framework and best practices for managing cloud resources.

• Work with core infrastructure teams (server, networking, desktop, etc.), development, and database teams to implement the cloud

strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze current mix of on-premise and cloud.

• Architect and lead the evolution of our company's cloud infrastructure with an emphasis on maintainability, scalability, efficiency, and security.

• Strategically direct the transition of legacy systems to cutting-edge cloud-based platforms, ensuring each migration is justified with a clear ROI and aligns with the firm's financial objectives.

• Define cloud governance and ensure adherence to standards across the organization.

• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in cloud technology.

Qualifications/Skills

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10+ years experience in technology related roles.

• 5+ years of direct experience in cloud related technologies.

• Experience transitioning infrastructure, services, data, etc. from on-premises to the cloud.

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance standards.

• Experience deploying cloud-based data services (Microsoft Azure and Snowflake highly desired).

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective articulation of complex ideas and collaboration across departments.