Senior Cloud Architect (5787-1)
Tri-Force Consulting Services, Inc. · New York, NY
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Jul 19, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A 12-month contract role at a major transit authority, focused on designing and documenting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures — primarily on AWS, with secondary Azure involvement — along with governance frameworks, standards, and migration roadmaps. The position also covers infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security, cost optimization, and networking. It suits an experienced cloud architect comfortable bridging on-premises environments and engaging with cross-functional technical and business stakeholders.
Senior level · 6+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Contract
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What the occupation pays Median $129,701 (middle half $84,324–$174,781).
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Why we read it this way (9)
This is a 12-month contract engagement placed by Tri-Force Consulting Services at the MTA's headquarters at 2 Broadway, New York, NY. The role is hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote — not fully remote.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call. The role is primarily an architecture/design and governance function (standards, frameworks, roadmaps) rather than hands-on software development or pure infrastructure operations. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best fit for a Cloud Architect role; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a reasonable runner-up given the IaC, CI/CD, and automation expectations.
AWS experience is listed in Required Skills with a range of 6–10 years; the overall years minimum is set to 6 (the minimum of that range). Azure is listed at 2–4 years.
The 'Strong Understanding Of' section enumerates a large number of AWS and Azure services. Core compute, storage, database, and serverless services for both platforms are captured as individual skills; the more specialized analytics services (Glue, Redshift, Synapse, Databricks, etc.) are marked preferred because they appear in a descriptive 'strong understanding' block rather than a hard-gate requirements section.
OCI and GCP are explicitly called out as 'Nice to have' in the Required Skills section.
Configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and SIEM tools (Splunk, Chronicle Security) appear in the job description body rather than the explicit Required Skills list and are marked preferred accordingly.
Microsoft Visio is listed in the Required Skills section with 2–3 years; minimum of 2 years captured in the years demanded.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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