Cloud Architect Job Description
We are looking for a Cloud Architect to design the cloud foundations and solutions on which our products and internal systems run. You will turn business needs, security requirements and budget limits...
Overview
We are looking for a Cloud Architect to design the cloud foundations and solutions on which our products and internal systems run. You will turn business needs, security requirements and budget limits into clear, reliable architectures, and guide the teams that build them. You will work with engineering, security, operations and leadership, and you will be accountable for the consistency and quality of our cloud environment.
Responsibilities
- Design cloud architectures for new and existing applications, balancing reliability, security, performance and cost
- Define and maintain the landing zone: account structure, networking, identity and baseline controls
- Set architecture standards, reference patterns and guardrails for engineering teams
- Review designs proposed by teams and advise on trade-offs
- Lead the design of migrations from on-premises or other platforms to the cloud
- Work with security and compliance on access control, encryption, data protection and audit requirements
- Define resilience, backup and recovery requirements with business owners
- Monitor cloud costs with finance and engineering and propose improvements
- Evaluate new cloud services and decide when to adopt them
- Document architecture decisions and communicate them to technical and non-technical audiences
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform or software engineering, including significant work designing cloud solutions
- In-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
- Strong understanding of networking, identity and access management and security principles
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or equivalent
- Experience designing for availability, scalability and disaster recovery
- Ability to explain complex designs and trade-offs clearly to different audiences
- Experience reviewing and mentoring other engineers
Nice to Have
- Professional certification from a major cloud provider
- Experience with regulated environments or data residency requirements
- Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid architectures
- Knowledge of FinOps practices
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