Senior Cloud Architect

What you'll do

• Design and deliver cloud architecture solutions on AWS meeting performance, reliability, and security requirements
• Develop and maintain architectural standards, patterns, and reference designs
• Partner with Platform, Security, and Data Engineering teams to assess infrastructure needs and translate into scalable designs
• Lead evaluation and adoption of new cloud services and technologies with clear recommendations
• Drive infrastructure as code practices using Terraform or equivalent
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to integrate cloud architecture best practices into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Conduct architectural reviews and design critiques providing constructive feedback
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and cost inefficiencies
• Support cloud security and compliance efforts including IAM design, network segmentation, encryption strategies, and adherence to SOC2 and PCI standards
• Mentor engineers on cloud-native design principles and serve as a go-to resource for complex infrastructure decisions

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering
• At least 3 years focused on cloud architecture
• Expert-level proficiency with AWS and its core services (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront)
• Strong command of infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred) and modern CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Experience designing for high-throughput, low-latency workloads
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles including network architecture, IAM, secrets management, and compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI, NIST CSF)
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or systems language (Python, Go, or similar)
• Strong architectural intuition with ability to weigh tradeoffs across performance, cost, complexity, and maintainability
• Clear, confident communicator able to engage with engineers and business stakeholders
• Self-directed and comfortable driving work forward with limited oversight
• Continuous learner who keeps up with evolving cloud landscape

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