Cloud Architect (Azure)

Location: Washington, DC; onsite. Work authorization: US Citizen or Green Card holder required.

Salary: $85.00/hour on 1099 or $80.00/hour on W2.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud architecture and infrastructure services for OCTO and partner government agencies.

What you will do

• Lead the continued build-out of OCTO’s multi-cloud environment, centered on Microsoft Azure with supporting AWS workloads.
• Design and own secure Azure landing zones, including management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, security baselines, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Deliver production infrastructure through Terraform, reusable modules, remote state, CI/CD pipelines, and pull requests.
• Plan and lead migrations of on-premises virtualized workloads to Azure from discovery and dependency mapping through target design, sizing, cost modeling, and migration waves.
• Provide architectural oversight for Azure Virtual Desktop, hybrid connectivity, identity integration, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and cloud cost management.
• Provide technical direction, code review, mentoring, architecture documentation, and runbooks while collaborating with agency CIOs, OCTO leadership, security teams, and vendors.

Requirements

• 8+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 5 years designing and building with Microsoft Azure.
• Demonstrated design and delivery of an enterprise Azure landing zone with management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, and hub-and-spoke networking.
• Hands-on production Terraform experience, including reusable modules and remote state management.
• Experience building infrastructure CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions with transferable skills.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, conditional access, and identity governance.
• Experience planning or leading migrations of on-premises virtualized workloads such as VMware to Azure.
• Working knowledge of AWS sufficient to operate and troubleshoot EC2, VPC, IAM, and S3 workloads.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, including code review, plus strong written communication and architecture documentation skills.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), or the ability to obtain it within 6 months of starting.

Nice to have

• Experience in state, local, or federal government IT environments.
• Hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop and/or Nerdio Manager for Enterprise experience.
• Experience with Azure, compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, CJIS, or FedRAMP, and Azure cost management, reservations, or chargeback models.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow for incident and change management.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or higher, or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work in Washington, DC.
• Engagement available on either 1099 or W2 terms.
• Work includes collaboration with agency IT leaders, security teams, on-premises virtualization teams, and vendor partners.

Hiring process

• A national criminal background check is required before starting; federal background checks are not compliant under this contract.
• Any criminal activity on the background check eliminates the candidate from consideration, including recent extensive driving, drug, robbery, or other illegal activity within the previous seven years.