Architect, Modern Platforms – Cloud Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and document highly available, secure, and efficient cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Establish engineering standards and reusable patterns for compute, networking, storage, containers, serverless, messaging, databases, and platform services.

• Integrate Infrastructure as Code utilizing Terraform, ARM templates, or CloudFormation.

• Develop and implement cloud adoption frameworks and landing zone strategies.

• Lead and architect comprehensive cloud migration initiatives, which include assessment, planning, lift-and-shift, replatforming, and application modernization.

• Assess on-premises and hybrid workloads and create migration roadmaps that align with business priorities, risk tolerance, and target architectures.

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to confirm migration readiness and ensure operational continuity.

• Oversee the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure deployments.

• Design resilient, auto-scaling solutions using cloud-native tools.

• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks.

• Enforce cloud governance policies regarding tagging, resource usage, budgets, and identity management.

• Architect secure environments utilizing IAM, encryption, key management, and network security controls.

• Support HIPAA, FedRAMP, and ISO 27001 compliance through secure design and audit readiness.

• Evaluate performance and cost efficiency, optimizing workloads through rightsizing, reserved instances, and modern architectures.

• Conduct architecture reviews and well-architected assessments.

• Apply FinOps principles and tools to enhance cost transparency and optimize cloud expenditures.

• Integrate resilience, fault tolerance, and operational visibility into solutions.

• Troubleshoot systemic cloud issues and drive root-cause analysis and resolution.

• Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders.

• Facilitate discovery and design sessions while presenting architecture recommendations, roadmaps, and outcomes to executive stakeholders.

• Propel cloud adoption strategies throughout client organizations.

• Mentor and guide engineering and development teams on cloud-native best practices.

• Promote knowledge sharing through documentation, communities of practice, and training sessions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, including military experience.

• 5+ years of client-facing consulting experience involving cloud and on-premises architecture strategy and delivery in enterprise environments.

• 5+ years of IT experience, with hands-on expertise in cloud engineering or cloud architecture roles across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Extensive knowledge of cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS), virtualization, and cloud-native services.

• Practical experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and relevant certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect or Azure Architect Expert.

• Proficiency in Terraform, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps, as well as scripting languages such as Python and Bash.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, service meshes, and cloud networking.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and troubleshooting abilities.

• Exceptional communication and documentation capabilities.

• Experience in implementing cloud governance frameworks and security controls.

• Knowledge of hybrid and multicloud strategies and tools.

• Experience with agile methodologies and a DevSecOps culture.

• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure patterns, GPU-backed compute environments, AI/ML pipeline architecture, vector database design, and LLM deployment on cloud platforms.

• Ability to lead engineering workshops and influence cloud adoption strategies across teams.

• Strong sense of ownership, initiative, and capacity to work both independently and collaboratively.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Opportunity to work with AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing.

• Opportunities to engage with Generative AI, resilient digital ecosystems, and data-driven transformation.

• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.