Cloud Architect

Michigan Farm Bureau seeks a Cloud Architect to design and evolve secure, scalable cloud solutions that support Michigan's agricultural and rural communities. You will define cloud architecture standards, lead migrations from on-prem systems, and optimize performance, reliability, and cost across our environments. Partnering with security, development, infrastructure, and business teams, you will guide solution design, implement automation and IaC, and ensure compliance. This role combines hands-on architecture with strategic planning in a collaborative, mission-driven culture that values learning and work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure, scalable cloud architectures to support business and member services

• Lead cloud migration and modernization of legacy applications and infrastructure

• Establish cloud standards, reference architectures, and best practices

• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation for provisioning and configuration

• Collaborate with security, development, and infrastructure teams on solution design

• Optimize performance, reliability, and cloud cost across environments

• Ensure compliance, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to teams Required Skills

• Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Cloud

• Formation)

• Kubernetes and containerization

• CI/CD pipelines

• Network and security design

• Solution architecture and systems design

• Monitoring and observability tools

• Cost optimization and cloud governance

• Database and storage services in cloud

• Disaster recovery and high availability design