Job Description

Salary: $88,000 - 125,000 per year Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
• Eight to ten years of progressive experience in cloud architecture or engineering, including leadership of architecture decisions for business-critical platforms in regulated or high-availability environments.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including enterprise landing zones, network and identity foundations, and reusable reference architectures.
• Experience planning and delivering migrations or modernizations across applications, data, and infrastructure, with measurable improvements in resilience, performance, or total cost of ownership.
• Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), or an equivalent certification.
• Preferred: FinOps Certified Practitioner or an equivalent cloud cost management certification.

• Own our end-to-end cloud architecture strategy and enterprise design standards to support secure, resilient, and cost-effective delivery of critical business capabilities.
• Translate business objectives and risk requirements into scalable cloud and hybrid reference architectures, and guide investment decisions and technology roadmaps.
• Serve as a senior technical authority and partner with enterprise architecture, engineering, security, and business leaders to align solutions with regulatory obligations, availability and recovery objectives, and financial targets.
• Lead cloud solution architecture for highly available, business-critical workloads, defining reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails that promote reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Develop and lead cloud adoption and migration roadmaps, including application rationalization, dependency mapping, cutover planning, and post-migration optimization; establish measures for risk reduction, reliability improvement, and cost efficiency.
• Define cloud security architecture and control objectives with IT Security, including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and secure-by-default platform configurations.
• Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and risk-based remediation planning; partner with audit, risk, and compliance stakeholders to address control testing, evidence requirements, and regulatory obligations.

• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Support
• Network
• Security

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We are hiring a Cloud Architect for a hybrid role based remotely within Michigan and onsite at our Farm Bureau Home Office in Lansing. We prefer candidates who live within an hour of the office. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with a 401(k).

last updated 41 week of 2026

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