What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect (Hybrid - Harrisburg, PA) position at Stage 4 Solutions?
We are currently recruiting a Cloud Architect for our client, a Commonwealth PA entity. The focus of this role is to assist in the oversight, planning, directing, evaluating, and controlling the technology and operations of the Operations Directors and associated staff engaged in Enterprise Cloud and Compute Operations. The Cloud Architect is to ensure that the Enterprise cloud and compute technologies align with the vision, strategy, and roadmap established by the Commonwealth’s C-Suite leadership and that the provided solutions meet agreed agency and external customer requirements and service levels.
This contract position is long-term with funding approved until 6/30/2026 (extensions possible), a 40-hour per week role. This position is hybrid, 1 day per week at the client’s offices in Harrisburg, PA. The candidates must be 2 hours or less from Harrisburg, PA.
This is a W-2 role as a Stage 4 Solutions employee. Health benefits and 401K are offered.
Responsibilities
Stage 4 Solutions is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing employees with an inclusive environment that is free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on the job requirements and candidates’ qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion/belief, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Compensation: $70/hr. - $77.34/hr
This contract position is long-term with funding approved until 6/30/2026 (extensions possible), a 40-hour per week role. This position is hybrid, 1 day per week at the client’s offices in Harrisburg, PA. The candidates must be 2 hours or less from Harrisburg, PA.
This is a W-2 role as a Stage 4 Solutions employee. Health benefits and 401K are offered.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Cloud and Compute Architecture and Engineering Team and provide direction, strategic alignment, and champion best-practice policies for the design, delivery, and management of Enterprise Cloud and Compute technology systems and services.
- Establish and align Enterprise technology needs and standard offerings with the vision, strategy, and roadmap established by the Commonwealth’s CIO and CTO.
- Interpret technology and market trends to assist their Director, Commonwealth CIO, and CTO with Enterprise technology foundations and product roadmaps.
- Establish a team culture that unifies the IT teams across the different agencies.
- Foster and maintain a customer-oriented environment as a service provider. Ensure that metrics are tracked that showcase the value of the Enterprise cloud and compute operations IT environment, and foster continual service improvement.
- Provide day-to-day direction to a matrixed organization that reports centrally to the Enterprise, but provides support to the Enterprise, TSOs, agencies, and external customers.
- Develop, measure, and maintain core cloud and compute operations design, implementation, and management KPI’s and supporting reports, dashboards, and executive summaries.
- Monitor the effectiveness of the environment and associated services against SLA/KPI's, driving through change as needed to design, implement, and manage effective Enterprise cloud and compute operations system services.
- 5 years of experience in leading Cloud & Compute Architecture/Engineering teams in a large enterprise or public-sector environment.
- Ability to align technology strategy, standards, and roadmaps with CIO/CTO vision and enterprise objectives.
- Demonstrated success guiding matrixed organizations that support central enterprise functions, agencies, and external customers.
- Track record establishing a unified, customer-oriented culture across distributed IT teams.
- Hands-on leadership in ITSM process design, adoption, and maturation (incident, problem, change, knowledge, service catalog).
- Demonstrated annual improvement of ITSM metrics and service performance within a bureau/enterprise setting.
- Experience developing, tracking, and reporting on SLA/KPI targets for cloud & compute services, including executive dashboards.
- Deep experience designing, deploying, and managing solutions across major public cloud providers:
- AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch)
- Azure (VMs, VNets, Resource Manager, Monitor, Security Center)
- Proficiency in hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, including interconnectivity, workload migration, and policy enforcement.
- Expertise in IaaS and PaaS design patterns and optimization for cost, performance, and security.
- Experience implementing cloud governance frameworks, including tagging standards, role-based access, and compliance enforcement.
- Familiarity with sovereign or government cloud environments (e.g., AWS GovCloud, Azure Government).
- Travel as required, including overnight status.
Stage 4 Solutions is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing employees with an inclusive environment that is free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on the job requirements and candidates’ qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion/belief, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Compensation: $70/hr. - $77.34/hr
Salary : $70 - $77