Salary: $135,000.00 - $145,000.00 Annually
Location : Statewide, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: EGB93858 (09/26)
Department: Governor's Office of Information Technology
Opening Date: 09/03/2026
Closing Date: 9/16/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Primary Physical Work Address: (Remote from anywhere in CO)
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
Type of Announcement: This announcement is not governed by the selection processes of the classified personnel system. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Description of Job
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Do you want to make our beautiful state even better? At OIT, we provide secure digital services that put Coloradans first.

The Cloud Integrations Solutions Architect will act as a senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) and technical authority within the Office of Information Technology (OIT). You will be responsible for designing, architecting, and supporting mission-critical, secure, and highly efficient cloud hosting and enterprise-class platforms and solutions across the agency. As an integral leader, you will participate in the development and formulation of plans, policies, standards, and programs in the areas of secure multi-tenant cloud hosting services and the Service Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of those services.

If using your creativity and innovation in the development and delivery of cloud based solutions is what you want to do, apply today for the chance to also put your passion into the state you love.
Some of the day to day opportunities include:
Establishing scalable cloud hosting standards, policies, and SDLC frameworks to ensure secure, uniform multi-tenant service delivery across the enterprise. Outcome: Standardized, secure, and compliant cloud operations across all agency teams.
Architecting and delivering robust IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DBaaS solutions to maximize system performance, uptime, and operational cost-efficiency. Outcome: High-performance, reliable, and cost-optimized digital infrastructure.
Executing seamless hybrid-cloud migrations and deploying enterprise shared hosting services to reduce legacy infrastructure costs and modernize agency workloads. Outcome: Modernized digital services with reduced technical debt and lower operational overhead.
Accelerating software delivery cycles and harden environment reliability by embedding DevSecOps, cloud orchestration, and immutable infrastructure practices across teams. Outcome: Faster, safer software releases with increased system stability and security.
Standardizing and promoting reusable architecture and deployment patterns and CI/CD pipelines to shorten release cycles, eliminate redundant development, and improve deployment consistency. Outcome: Streamlined development processes and consistent, high-quality application deployments, enabling delivery teams to move faster, rather than creating gated governance that slows them down.
Adopting a product-lifecycle approach to cloud services-measuring success not by 'go-live' dates, but by user feedback, system reliability, and actual business outcomes for agency partners.
Resolving high-level multi-tenant engineering bottlenecks to ensure seamless, secure interoperability across agency systems. Outcome: Frictionless system integration and improved operational agility.
Translating strategic product roadmaps into production-ready cloud architectures through lifecycle analysis with product and operations leaders. Outcome: Architectures that directly align with and accelerate business and product objectives.
Integrating best-of-breed security controls into all cloud designs to successfully pass audits and secure GovRAMP, FedRAMP, FISMA, DoD IL4, and State compliance accreditations. Outcome: Guaranteed compliance posture and minimized organizational risk.
Building robust data recovery and DR strategies to strictly enforce target RPO and RTO metrics, protecting critical systems against outages or data loss. Outcome: Resilience against data loss and assurance of system availability during disasters.
Validating active-active and active-passive failover capabilities through rigorous testing and BIA alignment to guarantee business continuity during enterprise disruptions. Outcome: Minimized downtime and guaranteed continuity for mission-critical services.
Evaluating cloud market research and feasibility studies to recommend data-backed technology investments that drive continuous operational improvement. Outcome: Strategic, fiscally responsible technology choices that promote long-term efficiency.
Evaluating and managing relationships with cloud service providers and vendors to ensure alignment with organizational goals, service level agreements (SLAs), and total cost of ownership (TCO) targets. Outcome: Optimized vendor partnerships that meet performance standards and budget constraints.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

Minimum Qualifications:
A minimum of five (5) years of experience working within Cloud based engineering.

A minimum of three (3) years of professional, hands-on experience designing, architecting, and deploying enterprise-grade solutions specifically on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), with demonstrated expertise in services such as GKE, Cloud IAM, BigQuery, EKS, AWS IAM, and Redshift.

Experience designing secure, multi-tenant cloud environments with a focus on governance, compliance (e.g., FedRAMP, CJIS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) within GCP and AWS environments.

Experience with Mulesoft.

Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD.

Familiarity with performing data research to determine proper data relationships and source validation.

Substitutions:

Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications:
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is strongly preferred.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) certification is a preferred credential.
Conditions of Employment:
OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

Supplemental Information
If this posting indicates "remote from anywhere in CO" in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.
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Please detail how your skills and experience align with the requirements of this position.
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Please describe how you learned of this job opening.
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The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) complies with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. While a wide salary range is posted, specific criteria (experience, education, state seniority, etc.) will be used to determine any salary offer. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis. It is this salary analysis, rather than any negotiation process, that determines any salary offer.

• Yes, I acknowledge that it is to my benefit to include ALL of my RELEVANT experience in my application work history and I have done that here.
• No, I do not wish to include ALL of my RELEVANT experience, and I understand that this may affect a potential salary offer.

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All remote work must be performed from within the State of Colorado. If you live out of state and are selected for this position you must relocate to Colorado before commencing employment. There is no form of relocation assistance, financial or otherwise, available for any position. Do you wish to proceed with your submission?

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If any of the State of Colorado positions listed in your employment history were performed as a contract employee, you MUST list the position/s, State Agency, and the name of the contracting company by whom you were paid during the contract position. If this does not apply, please type "N/A".
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Do you currently require employer sponsorship for a Visa, employer-provided documentation to maintain your Visa, or employer participation in a program for the purposes of immigration status?

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In the future, will you require employer sponsorship for a Visa, employer-provided documentation to maintain your Visa, or employer participation in a program for the purposes of immigration status?

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Do you currently reside in the state of Colorado?

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