Senior Cloud Architect - ITS-OPS-TechSrvs

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field and five (5) years of related experience. Experience in architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ten (10) years of cloud-based architecture experience.
• Extensive experience with Terraform and/or GitHub software tools.
• An Azure certification is highly desirable.

Job Summary

Works independently to maintain a robust architecture that supports a hybrid cloud infrastructure, including migration, design and technology management for the Academic Enterprise and Information Technology Services

Job Duties:

The Senior Cloud Architect is responsible for the design, administration, governance, security, and operational management of the University of Texas Health Intelligence Platform (UT-HIP) Azure cloud environment.

This position serves as the technical lead for cloud infrastructure and platform services, ensuring the availability, security, scalability, compliance, and cost-effectiveness of Azure resources supporting UT-HIP initiatives.

• Manage cloud deployments of internally developed applications
• Monitor technology evolution and recommend improvements to the cloud platform
• Design and develop cloud-native applications
• Communicate with cloud service providers and other third-party systems
• Design effective workflow approval process between entities and departments
• Assists with strategic planning with short- and long-term roadmaps
• Manage security protocols as dictated by Associate VP, Information Security
• Monitor cost of data files and services as new programs, services, and strategies are implemented
• Collaborate with departments and leadership across UTMB for data and data sharing
• Ensure cloud applications work and communicate with each other
• Monitor performance of the cloud services to ensure they are performing according to business objectives
• Structure a disaster recovery plan and adapt the plan on an annual basis

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Cloud computing
• Azure
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code

Salary Range:

Actual salary commensurate with experience.

Work Schedule:

8 am to 5 pm, and as needed on occasion.

Equal Employment Opportunity

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.

As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.