Cloud Solution Architect

About the role

The role includes ownership of core cloud services, connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments, workload migration strategies, disaster recovery architecture, and multi-cloud networking. You will also collaborate with business and product teams to enable AI/ML initiatives by designing cloud environments optimized for training, inference, and data platforms. In addition, you will mentor engineers and architects, helping drive technical excellence and cloud adoption across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve Hitachi Vantara’s multi-cloud platform across AWS and GCP.
• Work closely with architecture, security, networking, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions while establishing governance, operational standards, and best practices.
• Own core cloud services, connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments, workload migration strategies, disaster recovery architecture, and multi-cloud networking.
• Collaborate with business and product teams to enable AI/ML initiatives by designing cloud environments optimized for training, inference, and data platforms.
• Mentor engineers and architects, helping drive technical excellence and cloud adoption across the organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of enterprise IT experience with significant hands-on AWS architecture and engineering expertise.
• Deep knowledge of AWS Organizations, Landing Zone, Control Tower, Service Catalog, and Service Control Policies.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud networking solutions including Transit Gateway, Shared VPCs, hybrid connectivity, and multi-cloud architectures.
• Expertise in AWS security, governance, identity, and cost management best practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms, including EKS, ECS, and GKE.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, including Organization design, IAM, Shared VPCs, networking, and core platform services.
• Experience supporting AI/ML cloud platforms and services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar technologies.

Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification (current); GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification is highly desirable.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring capabilities within globally distributed teams.

Skills

• Serverless and event-driven architectures using services such as API Gateway and Lambda.

Benefits

Hitachi Vantara offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your overall health and wellbeing. This includes industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We also offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent).

Pay

The expected base salary for this position is: $120K to $150K. The expected on-target earnings for this position is: $136k to $170k. The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area.

Schedule

This is a remote position. Candidates must be located within reasonable driving distance of the Denver, Colorado metro area, as periodic in-person team meetings and events will be held locally.