Lead System Architect – High Availability, Cloud Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Latin America.

📋 Description

• Design systems that are highly available, fault-tolerant, and equipped with redundancy, failure isolation, automated recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities.

• Architect and deploy Kubernetes-based environments utilizing Terraform and infrastructure as code methodologies.

• Create independent cell-based deployments and failure boundaries to minimize the impact of outages and support scalable operations.

• Develop comprehensive real-time monitoring systems for infrastructure, applications, transactions, data pipelines, latency, errors, and overall system health.

• Collaborate with backend and data engineers to set deployment standards, performance objectives, operational controls, and secure production environments.

• Make architectural decisions that encompass infrastructure, backend services, data engineering, and machine learning.

• Conduct technical reviews, address obstacles, and maintain a hands-on approach to engineering tasks.

• Lead technical delivery for customer-facing projects, including managing requirements, milestones, technical communications, and accountability for delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in architecting and managing highly available production systems.

• Advanced practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform.

• Experience in implementing cell-based, fault-isolated, or similarly resilient distributed architectures.

• Strong grasp of cloud networking, load balancing, autoscaling, service reliability, and disaster recovery.

• Proficient in building observability platforms that include metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting systems.

• Experience with CI/CD, container security, infrastructure automation, and managing production incidents.

• Proven track record of leading small, cross-functional engineering teams across infrastructure, backend, and data engineering domains.

• Ability to act as the primary technical lead for client engagements, overseeing requirements, milestones, technical communications, and delivery accountability with minimal supervision.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure.

• Terraform expertise is essential; Azure Bicep is not part of the intended infrastructure strategy.

• Preferred: experience in developing low-latency, transaction-heavy platforms.

• Preferred: background in healthcare, financial services, or other regulated sectors.

• Preferred: understanding of HIPAA-related security and data isolation requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• High-ownership opportunity to lay down the architectural and reliability foundations for a new production platform.

• Collaborate directly with Chiri's technical leadership.