Senior Cloud Architect

Les Olson IT is one of the fastest-growing and most capable technology service providers in the West. We do I.T. the LOC Way—through talent, passion, and compassion—driving continual growth and a strong market position by delivering superior service.

Les Olson IT is one of the fastest-growing and most capable technology service providers in the West. We do I.T. the LOC Way—through talent, passion, and compassion—driving continual growth and a strong market position by delivering superior service.

Unlike most technology companies, Les Olson IT has been in business for over 70 years. We are a family-owned and family-operated company, a tradition that began at the Olson family dinner table and continues today. From those beginnings, we have grown to more than 320 employees across nine locations in two states.

Les Olson Company strives every day to elevate people, whether it's our clients, our team members, or members of the local community.

• We seek to elevate our clients by delivering cutting-edge IT strategy, security, solutions, and support. Each of our team members recognizes that they have a direct impact on the success of the local businesses we serve every day.
• We seek to elevate every team member's career, firmly believing that customer success cannot happen without employee success. We do this by working with each employee to design a fulfilling career path that grows and evolves as they do.
• We seek to elevate our local community members by rewarding our employees for volunteering at local charities and participating in our ongoing food drives.

Our work environment promotes both growth and balance. We encourage and support our employees in building meaningful, fulfilling paths, both professionally and personally. Les Olson Company offers competitive salaries, continuing education, generous benefits, and a fun, collaborative work environment. At the end of the day, it is the people that matter most to us!

The Cloud Architect serves as the technical authority for cloud platforms and cloud strategy across the Managed IT Services organization. This role is responsible for designing, governing, standardizing, and advancing cloud solutions across customer environments utilizing Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and hybrid infrastructures.

The Cloud Architect works closely with Engineering, Networking, Security, Service Delivery, Client Solutions, Sales teams to establish cloud standards, operational processes, monitoring requirements, automation frameworks, supported service offerings, and long-term technology roadmaps.

This role acts as both a strategic architect and hands-on technical leader, ensuring customer cloud environments are secure, scalable, resilient, cost-effective, and aligned with organizational best practices.

Successful candidates possess deep technical expertise across cloud technologies, infrastructure architecture, automation, identity management, networking, security, and operational governance while serving as a mentor and subject matter expert throughout the organization.

As our Cloud Architect, you will lead the strategy, design, and governance of cloud technologies across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments. You will define cloud architecture standards, drive modernization initiatives, and develop scalable solutions that support a diverse customer base ranging from SMBs to enterprise organizations.

In this role, you will serve as the organization's primary cloud subject matter expert, designing secure, reliable, and highly available cloud environments while establishing best practices for governance, security, networking, identity management, automation, and…