Lead Cloud Architect

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of essential infrastructure services and applications.

• Manage intricate production incidents and service recovery operations, providing technical leadership during significant events.

• Conduct comprehensive root-cause analysis and implement corrective measures.

• Establish and continuously enhance SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, service health metrics, and operational standards.

• Spearhead the observability strategy, encompassing metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.

• Oversee the operational lifecycle of deployed services, which includes releases, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, capacity management, maintenance, and technology refreshes.

• Identify and address systemic reliability risks, recurring failure patterns, capacity limitations, technical debt, and other operational hazards.

• Design and implement resilience and recovery initiatives, including failure-mode analysis, performance and capacity testing, disaster recovery, backup and failover strategies, and recovery validation.

• Advance automation and everything-as-code methodologies.

• Collaborate with Platform Engineering and application teams on architecture and design.

• Specify operational and reliability requirements while influencing platform capabilities and application architectures.

• Mentor junior Cloud Architects and offer technical guidance by establishing best practices and enhancing operational processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain the necessary Public Trust level clearance.

• A Bachelor’s Degree with 12 years of experience, a Master’s Degree with 10 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent with 16 years of experience is required.

• At least 7 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering.

• Significant hands-on experience in operating AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or similar Kubernetes-based platforms.

• Profound infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible / Ansible Tower.

• Advanced knowledge of GitLab and Jenkins CI/CD platforms, including reliability gating and deployment automation.

• Extensive experience in Linux and Windows Server administration.

• Considerable practical experience in implementing and managing enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, and Open Telemetry.

• Responsible for an SLI/SLO and alerting program, which involves error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction.

• Proficiency in scripting/automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go.

• Experience working in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).

• Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification.

• Preferred: Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA or Red Hat Certified Advanced System Administrator in OpenShift.

• Preferred: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or GCP Professional Cloud Developer certification.

• Preferred: Dynatrace Associate or Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification.

• Preferred: GitLab CI/CD Associate certification or Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE).

• Preferred: Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime.

• Shift differential may be available.

• Discretionary bonus may be available.