Cloud Architect

Duties & Responsibilities

• Own cloud architecture strategy across platforms, tooling, and patterns—driving outcomes in reliability, security, scalability, and delivery velocity.
• Design and govern container-based architectures using Docker and AWS ECS, including standards for service design, networking, scaling, and operational readiness.
• Define and improve deployment and release management practices for ECS-based services.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure architectural intent becomes robust implementation through reviews, reference designs, and hands-on enablement.
• Drive integration architecture that efficiently connects legacy systems with modern cloud services and APIs.
• Collaborate with security and risk stakeholders to embed security-by-design, IAM best practices, secrets management, and compliance-aligned controls.
• Improve quality and operability through observability standards (monitoring, logging, tracing), incident learnings, and continuous improvement.
• Document and spread best practices across teams; mentor engineers and technical leads to raise the bar on cloud delivery.
• Bring a customer service mindset when partnering with internal stakeholders, emphasizing responsiveness, clear expectations, and solutions that make teams successful.
• Work effectively with vendors and third-party partners, including technical evaluation, integration planning, issue resolution, and ongoing relationship management.

Skills & Specifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS ECS and Docker in production environments.
• Experience with AWS Fargate for container compute and scaling strategies.
• Proven experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Strong Linux and systems fundamentals, with practical experience supporting production services.
• Experience designing for resiliency, performance, and cost optimization in cloud environments.
• Able to translate scope into execution plans, sequencing, and estimates; experience delivering complex efforts using agile-oriented delivery.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts in relatable terms.
• Confidence managing multiple priorities and making trade-offs aligned to business outcomes.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years building and supporting large-scale, business-critical systems.
• 5+ years designing and operating cloud-based enterprise systems.