Senior Cloud Architect (all genders)
Core
Lead the evolution of AWS and Azure into internal developer platforms, designing secure, reliable foundations that enable product teams to ship customer value rapidly and safely.
Role type
Senior Cloud Architect (Platform Engineering)
Builds
Internal developer platforms (IDP), golden paths (IaC modules, pipeline templates), multi-cloud landing zones, and secure-by-default blueprints.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure), Platform Engineering, DevEx, SRE
Required skills
AWS (Organizations/Control Tower, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), Azure (Management Groups, VNets, Entra ID, AKS, Functions, Key Vault, Monitor), Terraform (modules, registries, testing, state mgmt), Ansible (roles, collections, CI integration), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI), Observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch), Security Engineering (IAM design, secrets, key management, network security, container security, vulnerability mgmt), Policy-as-code (Azure Policy, OPA, Conftest), FinOps (cost optimization, rightsizing, autoscaling, scheduling, storage lifecycle policies), SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, chaos/gamedays)
Preferred skills
Experience with Landing Zone Accelerator enhancements, data mesh patterns, EKS/AKS platforms, serverless/event-driven architectures
Technologies
AWS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, OPA, Conftest
Responsibilities
Own the cloud platform reference architecture and roadmaps across AWS and Azure; Define and maintain golden paths for common workloads; Build an internal developer platform (IDP) that abstracts complexity and provides self-service; Lead standardization of Terraform and Ansible usage patterns; Design identity-first architectures and implement policy-as-code; Embed SRE practices and standardize observability; Run rapid prototypes/PoCs for new capabilities; Partner with Finance for cost optimization; Mentor senior engineers and architects.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities