Cloud Architect Cover Letter Example

At Sterling Mutual Financial I set cloud architecture standards for a 300-engineer organization running regulated banking workloads across AWS and Azure. I'm applying for your Cloud Architect role because your posting describes the same tension I navigate daily: moving fast without giving an auditor a reason to slow the business down.

I designed the multi-account landing zone, service control policies, centralized logging, IAM permission boundaries and network segmentation, that now hosts 90 production applications, and chartered the FinOps program that removed $2.4 million, 28%, from annual cloud spend while compute demand kept growing. Leading architecture for an active-active two-region payments platform also took our recovery time objective from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

I hold the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications, present quarterly architecture reviews to the CTO and risk committee, and our SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS audits have closed with zero infrastructure findings two years running. I write every major decision down in a decision record so neither audience has to take my word for it.

I'd welcome a conversation about where [Company name]'s cloud spend or architecture still carries risk nobody has revisited recently. I'm happy to walk through the FinOps program in more detail. Thank you for considering my application.