Cloud Architect

#4321

Latham, New York, United States

Full-time

,000

In Office

The Hybrid Identity and Cloud Architect is responsible for the implementation, governance, and optimization of enterprise infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. The role provides technical leadership for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra , Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows Server, identity management, and hybrid cloud technologies.
This position develops scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions that support enterprise business applications, end-user services, cybersecurity requirements, and digital transformation initiatives. The Hybrid Identity and Cloud Architect serves as the technical authority for identity, authentication, cloud architecture, hybrid infrastructure, and enterprise directory services while partnering with infrastructure, security, application, and business teams.

• Implement, and maintain enterprise identity solutions utilizing Active Directory, Microsoft Entra , and hybrid identity services.
• Maintain identity synchronization, federation, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Conditional Access solutions.
• Develop strategies for identity lifecycle management, role-based access control, and privileged access management.
• Lead enterprise identity modernization initiatives.

• Design and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-effective Azure cloud solutions.
• Develop cloud adoption strategies and architectural standards.
• Create reference architectures, technical standards, and implementation roadmaps.
• Support enterprise application hosting and cloud-native modernization efforts.

• Maintain Active Directory forests, domains, trusts, organizational units, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and certificate services.
• Establish governance and standards for directory services.
• Design high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for identity infrastructure.
• Lead directory consolidation, migrations, and modernization projects.

• Architect Microsoft 365 solutions including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, One Drive, and related services.
• Design and support hybrid Exchange and mail-flow architecture.
• Develop collaboration and productivity platform standards.
• Ensure integration between Microsoft 365 and enterprise identity services.

• Design infrastructure solutions across Azure, VMware, Hyper-V, storage, networking, and datacenter technologies.
• Deploy and optimize virtual machine, storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Establish automation and infrastructure-as-code standards.
• Support hybrid infrastructure integration between cloud and on-premises systems.

• Implement Zero Trust principles across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with organizational security requirements.
• Support security audits, vulnerability remediation, and governance initiatives.

• Develop automation using Power Shell, Azure Automation, Microsoft Graph, and related technologies.
• Drive infrastructure operational maturity through monitoring, reporting, and automation.
• Establish enterprise standards for configuration management and infrastructure deployment.
• Promote continuous service improvement initiatives.

• Act as a technical lead for identity and cloud architecture initiatives.
• Partner with infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, and business teams.
• Mentor engineers and administrators on Microsoft cloud and identity…