Cloud Computing Solution Architect at IT Horizons Limited

IT Horizons Limited is a company with diverse talents and skills on existing, recent and upcoming technologies worldwide. We are a team of young, vibrant, ambitious but experienced professionals who deal with everything relating to technologies especially information communication technologies (ICT). Inaddition, we have the ability to update with latest trends and requirements of our esteemed clients. Our company established in 2010, had been driven by innovations and excellence, and with its rapid rate of success and customers’ requirements, we were fully incorporated into a private limited company in 2012 with the aim of helping organizations in achieving their goals by providing optimum technological solutions while reducing total cost of ownerships.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Computing Solution Architect

Location: Lagos 
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Duties

• A results‑driven Cloud Solutions Architect specializing in presales engineering, customer engagement, cloud solution design, and technical evangelism across Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud ecosystems for enterprise workloads.
• Skilled at delivering business‑aligned architectures, running discovery workshops, creating solution proposals, and supporting sales teams throughout the deal lifecycle.
• This role requires hands‑on experience in cloud architecture, DevOps tooling, IaC, observability, cost governance, and especially on‑prem → cloud migration projects.

Responsibilities
Core Presales Competencies:

• Requirements gathering, technical discovery, and cloud readiness assessments
• Cloud architecture design (Azure/AWS)
• RFP/RFQ responses, solution BOM creation, and customer presentations
• Cloud value articulation (ROI, TCO, business case development)
• Creating HLD/LLD, diagrams, and migration strategies
• Running POCs, demos, and architecture review sessions

Key Experience:

• Designed and presented multi‑cloud architectures for enterprise workloads
• Led presales activities for cloud migrations, DevOps, modernization, and security
• Supported sales teams with technical deep‑dives, sizing, and cost optimization proposals
• Delivered customer workshops on landing zones, IaC, CI/CD, and cloud governance
• Implement cloud-native services:
  • Azure: VMs, App Services, AKS, Azure SQL, Storage, Monitor.
  • AWS: EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda.
• Automate configuration, policy enforcement, backup routines, patching, and scaling.
• Ensure observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and incident automation.
• Assess existing on-prem infrastructure (compute, storage, network, DB).
• Develop migration plans (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor).
• Execute migrations using tools such as Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Hub, DMS, VM replication tools, etc.
• Perform optimization and stabilization post‑migration.
• Implement cloud security best practices, encryption, firewalls, policies, identity controls.
• Conduct monthly cost optimization reviews.
• Provide cloud expertise during internal and external technical sessions/demos.

Job Requirements
Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Experience (Required):

• 3–6+ years hands‑on in Azure and/or AWS (must be deep in at least one; both preferred).
• Production experience with IaC (Terraform/Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong background in on‑prem → cloud migrations.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, identity, and automation.
• Experience with Linux/Windows server administration.

Experience (Preferred):

• Experience with containers (EKS/AKS) and serverless (Lambda/Azure Functions).
• Experience with hybrid cloud (ExpressRoute, VPN, Direct Connect).
• Understanding of SRE principles.

Certifications (Preferred):

• AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional).
• Azure Solutions Architect.
• Terraform Associate, DevOps Engineer Expert a plus.

Application Closing Date
20th July, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.