Title: Cloud Solutions Architect Employee Type: Contract Location: Charlotte, NC, US Job Type: Infrastructure and Security Pay Range: $65 - $70 per hour Job#: 3026948 Job Description: Req Priority: - Advantages (Apex positioning): B – resume review - Apex Interview Times (w/o client sub review): (Date/time) - Interview Availability (w/ client sub review): (Date/time) Title / Position: Cloud Solutions Architect Location: Charlotte, NC - Hybrid allowance: 4x/week onsite, 1/week remote Contract Duration: 12+ months Requirements: - On-Prem experience - Vmware, Red Hat OpenShift - Linux OS experience - Knowledge of OpenSource architecture/environments Job Description: This team serves as the enterprise infrastructure architecture and engineering function within IT. The team is responsible for everything from the physical data‑center foundation—network, compute, and storage—to the platforms that run on top of it, such as VMware and OpenShift. The team currently does not operate an OpenStack footprint, they anticipate adopting a fully open‑source platform in the future to offload core operational workloads to technologies like Apache CloudStack or an OpenStack variant. The team will be responsible for transitioning their current on-prem cloud environment to a new provider (Red Hat Open Shift), including designing the underlying infrastructure plan that supports this shift. This person will be tasked with ensuring the data center is built, maintained, and optimized to support OpenShift and the broader enterprise ecosystem. Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

Description Cloud Security Integration Engineer Why YOU want this position At Enverus, we're committed to empowering the global quality of life by helping our customers make energy affordable and accessible to the world. We are the most trusted energy-dedicated SaaS company, with a platform built to maximize value from generative AI, and our innovative solutions are reshaping the way energy is consumed and managed. By offering anytime, anywhere access to analytics and insights, we're helping our customers make better decisions that help provide communities around the world with clean, affordable energy. The energy industry is changing fast. But we've continued to lead the way in energy technology, creating intelligent connections across the entire energy ecosystem, from renewables, power and utilities, to oil and gas and financial institutions. Our solutions create more efficient production and distribution, capital allocation, renewable energy development, investment and sourcing, and help reduce costs by automating crucial business operations. Of course, this wouldn't be possible without our people, which is why we have built a team of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds. Are you ready to help power the global quality of life? Join Enverus, and be a part of creating a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. We are currently seeking a Cloud Security Integration Engineer to join our organization in the United States. The Cloud Security Integration Engineer owns security integration activities for acquired companies, third-party platforms, and internal consolidations, ensuring new environments are onboarded to centralized EDR, CSPM, SIEM, and identity tooling against organizational baselines. Between integrations, the role manages cloud security posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, supports incident response, and partners with DevOps on secure architecture. This role directly accelerates acquisition integration timelines while reducing security gap exposure across the growing multi-cloud footprint. Performance Objectives Security Integration & Onboarding - Plan and execute security integration activities for acquired companies, third-party platforms, and internal consolidations, ensuring alignment with organizational security baselines. - Onboard new environments to centralized security tooling (EDR, CSPM/CNAPP, SIEM, vulnerability management); validate agent deployment, policy configuration, and telemetry coverage. - Coordinate identity integration including directory synchronization, Conditional Access deployment, SSO federation, and phishing-resistant authentication enrollment (FIDO2, passkeys). - Conduct security assessments of target environments during integration planning, identifying gaps across endpoint coverage, cloud posture, identity hygiene, and network segmentation. - Track remediation of findings from integration-phase vulnerability scans and penetration tests; coordinate with engineering teams to validate fixes within defined SLAs. - Produce integration status reports for security leadership covering risk posture, remediation progress, and milestones. Security Engineering & Operations - Maintain and improve security tooling across endpoint, cloud, identity, and application security domains; support platform upgrades, policy tuning, and coverage gap analysis. - Manage cloud security posture across AWS (primary), Azure, and GCP environments, including misconfiguration remediation and security service configuration (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, Defender for Cloud). - Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on secure architecture patterns, IaC security reviews, and CI/CD pipeline controls. - Support incident response activities including investigation, containment, and post-incident documentation. - Participate in security architecture reviews for new projects, vendor integrations, and infrastructure changes; provide risk-based recommendations. Competitive Candidate Profile - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent professional experience accepted in lieu of degree - 3-5 years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, or a closely related technical security role - 3 + years hands-on experience with at least two of the following: EDR platforms, CSPM/CNAPP tooling, identity and access management (Entra ID or equivalent), cloud security services (AWS or Azure) - Demonstrated experience participating in system integration, platform migration, or M&A integration activities in a security capacity - Working knowledge of at least one compliance framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS) and its application during integration or audit activities - Desired Certifications (one or more): AWS Certified Security - Specialty , AZ-500 - Ideal Certifications: SC-300, SC-100, SAA-C03, CCSP, CISSP, CCSK , CKS PHYSICAL DEMANDS - Ability to sit for long periods, work on a computer with repetitive motions and utilize devices typically found in an office environment. - Ability to communicate effectively with another person. - Regular and predictable attendance is required. - Ability to work in an office environment as required. - Travel requirements: as required for company needs Enverus offers comprehensive benefits to our employees to include: - Medical - Dental - Vision - Income Protection (disability, life/AD&D, critical illness, accident) - Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Healthcare Spending Account (HSA), Commuter - Lifestyle & Wellbeing Program - Pet Insurance This role is eligible for: Variable Compensation Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000 + bonus

• Design and build advanced customizations using Apex (classes, triggers, batch, queueable, Platform Events), Visualforce (if applicable), and Lightning (Aura/LWC), ensuring scalability and performance. • Drive the design, development, and deployment of complex Salesforce solutions, ensuring adherence to best practices in Agile (SCRUM) methodologies and SDLC principles. • Produce system design documents, lead technical walkthroughs, and present code solutions to the Salesforce Architecture Review Board. • Produce high-quality code, own the code quality, and represent your team’s technical output for workstream and product owners. • Collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical partners. • As a team member, continuously improve the architecture and mentor junior developers on best practices.

Overview Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. We are seeking a highly experienced AI Apps Cloud Solution Architect – Cloud & AI to join our Federal organization. This role requires deep technical expertise across Azure workloads, specifically with AI, Foundry, application services, and GitHub Copilot, and a passion for helping enterprise customers solve complex challenges and accelerate their digital transformation. This Cloud Solution Architect will work with the customer’s architects, developers and IT staff to build new AI-infused applications hosted on Azure, modernize existing Azure applications, or migrate applications to Azure and enhance them with AI. The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources – including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment – Civilian, Defense, or Intelligence community.  Responsibilities Business Impact - Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare complex customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively helps the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guides complex customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Articulates the value of Unified and supports sellers, partnering with account teams to build consumption plans aligned with appropriate services. Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content. - Proactively identifies and anticipates new cross-solution opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition for supported platforms to empower cloud success, foster and strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Strategically consults with, actively listens to, and respectfully challenges customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Identifies, anticipates, and evaluates industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps both existing and novel architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Proactively anticipates and captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model. - Anticipates, identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption for complex customers/scenarios. Proactively applies broad business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints. - Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Orchestrates and collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Proactively anticipates and manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals. Customer Centricity - Proactively identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, creates or improves an existing business model, and explains why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings. Proactively helps the customer/partner accelerate their adoption and use of Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Builds relationships with, and provides direction to technical decision makers (TDMs) up to the C-suite level, and builds the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Leads and elevates interactions as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Office (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required. - Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems. Identifies and aggregates patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries, and leverages them with relevant industry perspective to develop strategic and actionable insights. Presents business cases to program managers to advocate for and influence product roadmaps, decision making, and bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate. - Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Drives the realization of customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals. Anticipates, addresses, and leads customer confidence calls to resolve customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, and creates and executes strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation. Partner Specialization - Identifies and prioritizes opportunities aligned with revenue goals and orchestrates the growth of the solution utilization pipeline with partners. Provides support to partner and sales teams by bringing clarity to opportunities through proof-of-concept development and technical pre-sales engagement. - Understands solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) stakeholders to lead and execute initiatives that translate opportunities into actionable plans. Proactively guides and supports partners in developing repeatable offerings, practices, products, and solutions, and advises partners through initial strategic customer implementations.   Technical Leadership - Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices. - Leads, mentors, and may assemble virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges, sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger v-team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Demonstrates deep industry knowledge and drives recognition for Microsoft solutions by leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Contributes to and collaborates on intellectual property (IP) and proactively identifies patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Participates in and leads external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams. - Proactively identifies and anticipates gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to and influences relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, IP (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Develops and contributes to modifications of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Proactively provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the worldwide level. Core Responsibilities: - Build trusted relationships with IT executives and business leaders to shape their Cloud and AI strategy, acting as a technical advisor and champion for customer success. - Lead and coordinate across Microsoft, partner, and customer technical teams to manage dependencies, technical risks, and delivery milestones across complex engagements. - Lead architectural design sessions and guide the implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient solutions using Microsoft best practices and frameworks such as CAF and WAF. - Drive technical excellence across Azure workloads—particularly AI, Foundry application services, and GitHub Copilot—ensuring mission-critical workloads are optimized for performance, security, and production-scale AI readiness. - Align technical delivery to customer success plans and consumption priorities, ensuring solutions deliver measurable business value and long-term platform adoption. - Accelerate Azure consumption and customer outcomes by developing repeatable intellectual property (IP), resolving technical blockers, and providing delivery oversight for key engagements. - Collaborate with internal teams and partners to design impactful delivery proposals and support execution. - Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes and executive-level messaging for senior stakeholders. - Contribute to Microsoft’s technical community by mentoring peers, sharing insights, and serving as a spokesperson in internal and external forums. - Maintain advanced certifications and deep technical expertise across priority workloads such as Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, and App Services. - Inspire customer innovation by helping customers adopt AI at scale and guiding them through their transformation journey. - Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously developing technical and professional skills and contributing to a culture of learning and excellence. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. Other Requirements: Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States governments agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet these legal requirements, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport. Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under U.S. export control regulations, potentially under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency or other protected status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport. Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. - Additional or preferred qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. - 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). - 6+ years experience leading technical projects. - Comfort and actively uses code/script generation tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, Opus, Codex - Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of enterprise public cloud platforms and related industry/marketplace - Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications). Cloud Solution Architecture IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $272,300 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.