Cloud Confidently®
Senior Cloud Architect
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$160K - $200K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Cloud Architect
Effectual
• Effectual Senior Cloud Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects. • Partner with Engagement Managers (EMs) to deliver an exceptional customer and delivery team experience. • Expected to demonstrate Effectual’s experience and expertise through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers. • Define architecture strategy, govern technical standards, and mentor both client teams and internal architects across modernization, resilience, security, and optimization initiatives. • Define enterprise target-state cloud architecture and phased roadmap strategies. • Lead architecture review boards and executive design discussions with client leadership. • Establish reusable architecture standards, guardrails, and delivery patterns across programs. • Architect scalable, highly available AWS solutions using Well-Architected Framework principles. • Build multi-account landing zones, hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, Transit Gateway), and DR/BC architectures. • Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and CloudFormation. • Create Python automation scripts and CI/CD pipelines. • Optimize cloud performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and security posture. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to client engineering teams. • Lead workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and incident response. • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure challenges and create comprehensive documentation.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of continual, prior experience working as a Solution Architect, including in parallel:
- 6+ years architecting and building AWS infrastructure
- 2+ years of infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred)
- 2+ years of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite)
- AWS experience within the past year, with knowledge of primary AWS services (Compute, Storage, Networking, RDS)
- Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical/architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
- Experience leading highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
- Experience managing data center or cloud operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
- Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
- Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Proficient in at least one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node)
- Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
- Ability to work with multiple clients in parallel, with strong attention to detail
- Exceptional communication and time management skills
- Ability to work EST with flexibility for different time zones.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision health insurances
- Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurances
- 401k with company match
- Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
- Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
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