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Cloud Architect, Expert
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About the role
- The Expert Cloud Architect is a senior hands-on technical leader within the Hybrid Cloud Platform team who operates at the intersection of enterprise architecture strategy and deep infrastructure delivery.
- This role carries broader scope and higher autonomy than the Senior Cloud Architect.
- They are expected to influence architecture decisions beyond their immediate team, partnering with enterprise architects, security leadership, and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Author and maintain enterprise Terraform module libraries - defining patterns, interfaces, security defaults, and versioning strategies.
- Build complex automation: multi-stage deployments, policy-as-code enforcement, drift detection, self-healing infrastructure patterns.
- Implement and validate security architectures through code - private endpoints, managed identities, CMK encryption, network micro-segmentation.
- Design and deploy Kubernetes platforms (AKS/EKS) with production-grade configurations: RBAC, network policies, ingress, service mesh, GitOps.
- Build proof-of-concepts and reference implementations that teams can adopt and extend.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a job-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 8 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture roles.
- 5 years of hands-on experience writing Terraform at scale (enterprise module libraries, multi-environment state management, provider development).
- 4 years of experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipeline architectures (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership or architecture role - guiding teams, setting standards, making binding design decisions.
- Proven track record of resolving complex cross-domain infrastructure challenges (networking + security + compute + automation).
- Experience working in and leading within Agile/Scrum delivery teams.
- Experience designing and operating enterprise landing zones (Azure CAF, AWS Control Tower, or custom).
- Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure architecture - GPU compute, distributed training, model serving, MLOps.
- Experience with platform engineering practices: internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, golden paths.
Skills
- They are the person who unblocks the Senior Cloud Architects when those architects are stuck.
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point - unblock Senior Cloud Architects and platform engineers on the most complex problems.
Compensation
- $150k-$155k
Company info
- We are excited to be continuously expanding our team.
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