Senior Cloud Platform Architect - AWS & Service Activation-- Hybrid Irving, TX or Charlotte, NC

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering, Design & Architecture
• Engineer multi-region, highly available architectures aligned with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Infrastructure Automation & IaC
• Lead engineering, adoption, and development of Terraform-based infrastructure as code, ensuring consistency, compliance, and reusability.
• Build and maintain modular Terraform frameworks for provisioning cloud infrastructure.
• Integrate IaC into CI/CD pipelines to enable fully automated provisioning and deployment workflows.
• Containerization & Kubernetes Platforms
• Direct knowledge and engineering leveraging Kubernetes platforms (EKS, GKE) and associated ecosystems.
• Implementation of container orchestration best practices including scaling, observability, and security.

Qualifications

• Cloud Platforms & Architecture
• Extensive firsthand experience with AWS and GCP in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in cloud architecture, including high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region design.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native services and distributed systems principles.
• AWSControl tower and landing Zones.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and Git-based workflows.
• Kubernetes & Container Platforms
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and container ecosystems.
• Knowledge of Helm, service meshes, and container security best practices.
• Identity, Access & Security Governance
• Experienced working knowledge architecting and designing robust IAM strategies across GCP and AWS including least-privilege access models.
• Implement policy frameworks for access control, resource governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Networking & Connectivity
• Direct knowledge and experience architecting, designing, and engineering cloud networking solutions including VPC/VNet design, routing, peering, VPNs, and private connectivity.
• Ensure secure, high-performance connectivity between cloud environments and on-premises systems.
• Policy Management & Governance
• Deep understanding of policy management, policy-as-code frameworks to ensure consistent governance of resources, tagging strategies, and compliance controls.
• Collaboration with governance, policy, and security teams to ensure cloud environments meet enterprise and regulatory standards.
• Modernization & Mentorship
• Champion cloud-native and platform engineering best practices across the organization.
• Drive the evolution of platform engineering practice by incorporating infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership for complex cloud initiatives.
• Serve as an escalation point for critical cloud infrastructure and platform issues.