About the role

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.

What you'll do

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 operational support. You will work closely with Engineering, Networking, Security, and Operations teams to ensure cloud solutions are standardized, supportable, and aligned with business objectives.

You will champion automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) strategies, helping the organization improve efficiency, consistency, and service delivery through cloud-native tools, orchestration platforms, APIs, and emerging AI-enabled technologies. Additionally, you will establish operational standards for monitoring, observability, lifecycle management, and incident prevention to ensure long-term platform stability and performance.

As a trusted advisor to both customers and internal stakeholders, you will participate in architecture reviews, technical assessments, solution design workshops, and strategic planning initiatives. You will support complex customer engagements, validate solution feasibility and security requirements, and help shape future cloud service offerings and technology roadmaps.

Beyond technical leadership, you will mentor engineering teams, promote cloud best practices, foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, and help grow cloud expertise throughout the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive IT infrastructure, engineering, cloud, or architecture experience or a master's degree in related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience working with enterprise cloud technologies.
• Strong experience supporting Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud architectures.
• Experience with cloud migrations, modernization efforts, and operational transformations.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, security, governance, and cost management.
• Experience developing automation, scripting, and operational efficiencies.
• Strong consulting, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and technical teams.
• Ability to translate business objectives into scalable and supportable technical solutions.

The Cloud Architect is responsible for transforming cloud technologies from individual customer deployments into a strategic organizational capability by establishing standards, automation, governance, monitoring, service offerings, and architectural direction that improve customer outcomes and operational effectiveness across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments.

About Les Olson IT

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!