Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Requirements

• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud architecture on AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Experience in multi-cloud strategies, hybrid cloud deployments, and workload optimization across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
• Proficiency in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, and Oracle Resource Manager for automated cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, Azure Entra ID, AWS IAM, Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), encryption, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, CIS, etc.) to secure cloud environments.
• Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, OKE) and microservices-based architectures.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Oracle Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, and ELK Stack for real-time visibility and operational efficiency.
• Experience in cloud cost optimization strategies, including AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Oracle Cloud Cost Analysis, and RI/Savings Plans.
• Strong experience with complex networks, perimeter security management and routing.
• Ability to document and diagram technical systems and architectures.
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Ability to maintain and foster sensitivity and respect for a culturally diverse work environment.
• Ability to display supportive behavior and communicate positively regarding department goals and objectives.
• Ability to deal effectively with a variety of personalities to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to fulfill assigned commitments in a timely manner within established budgets while achieving quality results.
• Excellent grammar, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and resolve conflict when necessary.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and/or internationally, if needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead the process of integrating outcomes of the strategic planning process to identify enterprise business drivers; translate these to common business, information, and technology architecture requirements.
• Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will be securely integrated with current applications.
• Oversee and report out on ongoing analysis of industry, technology and market trends to determine potential impacts on the enterprise.
• Analyze current business and IT environment to detect critical deficiencies.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise cloud and infrastructure roadmap, aligning with business objectives to drive scalability, security and operational efficiency.
• Define and enforce cloud architecture standards, best practices and governance frameworks to ensure consistency, compliance and optimal performance across cloud environments.
• Provide leadership for cross-organizational teams in the analysis and development of implementation plans based on prioritized requirements.
• Contribute to the architecture design, development and end to end deployment of high performance cloud environments.
• Responsible for a large array of tasks from designing next generation cloud services to leading a technical team in building/automating services for customers.
• Design and implement cloud-native architecture following Well-Architected Framework principles while optimizing resource allocation for cost efficiency.
• Lead the design of the cloud based identity management solution and migration of the on-premise Active Directory and SSO functionality to Azure Entra ID.
• Design and implement scalable, secure cloud architectures that integrate with DevOps practices and support continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and DevOps tools, making recommendations to drive automation and streamline operations.
• Build, optimize, and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, reliable, and automated software deployments across multiple environments.
• Collaborate closely with Product development, Infosec and other teams to integrate cloud infrastructure with CI/CD processes, ensuring that best practices are followed and that environments remain consistent.
• Mentor and lead the Cloud and DevOps engineers on best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Develop a monitoring and observability roadmap with focus on tool rationalization and with advanced digital insights and AI Ops support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred.
• 8-10+ years’ experience in cloud systems architecture design and/or support in a medium to large environment.
• Extensive experience in leading DevOps initiatives, creating CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployment.
• Strong background in cloud security, compliance, and identity management, including Azure Entra ID, AWS IAM and Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Certified Architect Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional