Senior Azure Cloud Architect (Hybrid)

📋 Job Overview

This role is based in Detroit, Michigan, and follows a hybrid work model, requiring in-office presence three days per week. Additionally, Due to the requirements for this role, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

🏢 About Detroit Labs

Detroit Labs was founded in 2011 with a vision for building digital products, services, and the teams that power them. We create digital solutions that transform the way our clients do business. We build genuine relationships based on respect, trust, and results. We foster a diverse and inclusive culture that values people - providing them with the tools, resources, and support they need to thrive professionally, exceed client expectations, and be themselves at work. We have a variety of client teams we work with ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies so there are always new and exciting projects going on.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will work embedded on one of our client teams in the energy space. You will play a critical role in leading a next-generation cloud modernization initiative using the Azure platform supporting mission-critical internal applications. These systems are essential to operational resiliency, including applications used for grid management and storm response.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement resilient cloud architectures for existing enterprise applications, with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency
• Architect solutions capable of handling high-traffic and failure scenarios, particularly for operationally critical systems
• Improve availability, disaster recovery, and overall system resiliency across migrated applications
• Build and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, ARM, Bicep)
• Ensure applications are fully automated and not dependent on manual console-based operations
• Collaborate closely with developers, Cloud engineers SREs, DevOps engineers, QA, and stakeholders to align architecture with business and operational needs
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud platform challenges, including deep technical issues that may require vendor collaboration
• Create and contribute to architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical standards
• Help build internal cloud capability through knowledge transfer and strong engineering leadership

📌 Required Qualifications

• 10+ Years experience architecting, designing, and implementing enterprise cloud solutions
• 5+ years experience working with enterprise cloud solutions in Azure (required)
• Project experience and knowledge around infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience leading or contributing to production-scale application migrations to the cloud
• Experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery architectures
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, and access management
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, performance testing, and observability tooling
• Experience designing systems that support operationally critical or high-resiliency environments
• Ability to independently solve complex technical problems without heavy oversight
• Comfortable working in a small, senior-level team focused on delivery and ownership
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across distributed teams

🎁 Benefits

The salary range for this role is from $220,000 - $230,000 commensurate with experience. Full medical, dental, vision benefits. 401K contribution options. Quarterly outings and events. Paid holidays and vacation time. Parental leave program. Monthly budgets for “team fun” bonding events. Free lunch for various company meetings and Lunch & Learns. Access to our mentorship program and employee resource groups (ERGs). Volunteer opportunities. All-company remote-friendly activities.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Due to the requirements for this role, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.