Cloud Solution Architect

Title: Cloud Solution Architect

State Role

Title:

Info Technology Specialist III

Hiring Range: Up to $165,000

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location: Central Office

Agency Website: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is seeking an experienced IT professional to fill the Cloud Solution Architect position. As part of the Enterprise Architecture team, this position is responsible for designing scalable, reusable, and secure application architectures across the organization, with a strong focus on AWS solution architecture, while supporting workloads on Azure and OCI as well.

• Designing and implementing scalable, resilient, secure cloud-native applications on AWS aligned with Well‑Architected Framework principles.
• Leading application modernization and cloud migration initiatives, embedding performance, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization into all designs.
• Producing detailed architecture documents, diagrams, and technical specifications to support solution delivery and governance.
• Providing architectural guidance for Azure deployments and validating/supporting workloads running on OCI.
• Promoting consistent cross‑cloud architecture patterns across networking, identity, Dev Sec Ops , security, observability, workload portability, and multi‑cloud resilience strategies.
• Contributing reusable reference architectures, blueprints, accelerators, and standardized design patterns to reduce duplication across teams.
• Developing and maintaining shared frameworks for logging, monitoring, security, CI/CD, API governance, and system integration.
• Building and standardizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automation templates.
• Actively participating in solution design workshops, proof‑of‑concepts, and providing hands‑on guidance during development and deployment.
• Conducting architecture reviews, code and design validations, and troubleshooting complex application and integration issues.
• Ensuring solution alignment with enterprise architecture principles, target‑state roadmaps, compliance standards, and security, regulatory, and risk management policies.
• Participating in Architecture Review Boards and governance processes while maintaining complete and accurate architecture documentation.
• Collaborating with product, engineering, Dev Ops, security, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable, sustainable technical solutions and providing consultative support across business units.
• Demonstrating strong analytical and systems thinking, deep technical credibility, a reusability‑first platform mindset, effective collaboration and influencing skills, and the ability to balance governance with delivery agility—driving outcomes such as scalable secure solutions, reusable pattern adoption, reduced time‑to‑market, improved reliability/performance/cost efficiency, and reduced technical debt.

• IT experience, with experience delivering solution and application architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing AWS‑based solutions, with experience in Azure and exposure to OCI.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud‑native application design, modernization, and leveraging native cloud services for solution engineering across cloud and on‑premises environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into fully tested, scalable workflows by designing, implementing, and maintaining technology assets using approved tools.
• Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, serverless, containers, and IAM, along with cloud networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, security groups).
• Experience in microservices, event‑driven architecture, API‑first design, integration patterns, and API development (e.g., AWS API Gateway).
• Experience with serverless platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (EKS, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM/Bicep) to automate provisioning and infrastructure management.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Dev Sec Ops  practices, version…