Principal Cloud Architect

Experience with cost management and optimization tools in AWS and Azure.

• Key Responsibilities and Scope

• Cloud Strategy & Governance: Define the long-term cloud vision, roadmap, and reference architectures across multi-cloud environments (AWS & Azure). Lead enterprise-wide cloud adoption and transformation strategies, setting and enforcing architecture standards, governance, and compliance policies.
• Architecture Leadership & Innovation: Act as the highest-level technical authority for designing and implementing secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud ecosystems. Solve the most unique and complex problems with a broad, cross-functional impact, often requiring significant departures from traditional approaches.
• Deep Cloud Engineering & Optimization: Provide mastery-level expertise in core and advanced AWS and Azure services (e.g., EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VMs, Blob, VNet, Azure AD, SQL DB, Functions, AKS).
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and optimize enterprise-grade Terraform and other IaC frameworks (CloudFormation, ARM templates) for scalable, secure infrastructure automation.
  • Automation: Drive automation strategy, establishing new processes and technologies to enhance performance, reliability, and security for provisioning, config management (Ansible), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps).
• Cost & Performance Management: Drive multi-million dollar cost optimization initiatives by designing and implementing advanced cost-saving strategies, overseeing vendor negotiations, and managing cloud licensing models—lead capacity planning and performance optimization for critical, high-scale systems.
• Security & Compliance: Develop and enforce stringent cloud security and compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) at an organizational level. Provide expert guidance on IAM, network security, encryption, and audit processes.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Architect and oversee the execution of enterprise-level Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) for the entire cloud footprint.

• Qualifications

• Experience: Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent expertise. 8+ years specifically designing, implementing, and managing multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure).
• Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Broad expertise or unique knowledge across complex, high-scale multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Expertise in strategic scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for platform-level automation.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise architecture modeling and governance.
  • Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and large-scale Terraform codebase management.
• Soft Skills & Leadership: Proven track record of visionary leadership, strategic planning, and executive communication. Demonstrated ability to influence, drive consensus, and lead large, cross-functional technical programs.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional (AWS SA Pro), AWS DevOps Professional, Azure Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
• Advanced Technologies: Mastery in Containers (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS), Serverless (Lambda, Azure Functions), Cloud Databases (Aurora, Cosmos DB), and advanced cloud networking services.
• Expertise in Systems: Deep, hands-on administrative and design expertise in Virtualization (VMware/vCenter lifecycle management, upgrades, and large-scale migration strategies) and diverse Operating Systems (Windows, RHEL, Linux).
• Mentorship & Influence:Act independently to determine methods and procedures for new or special assignments. Create formal networks and coordinate among multiple groups. Provide executive-level guidance and technical mentorship to other architects, engineers, and technical leadership. Influence senior stakeholders and deliver briefings to align cloud strategies with business outcomes.