The Cloud Strategist will play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving UCLA's cloud-first strategy, developing the capabilities of our cloud operating model, and accelerating cloud adoption and migration efforts. Collaborating with our enterprise technology teams, this role will define the desired state of our cloud vendor ecosystem, cloud-first placement strategy, and productization of cloud offerings for enterprise customers. This role will align stakeholders on a cloud adoption approach and framework, guiding the organization through migration readiness and execution. The Cloud Strategist will significantly impact efforts to drive cost optimization strategies, ensuring cloud solutions are scalable, reliable, and leverage automation where feasible. Working with domain-specific architec