Jobs / Cla***
Cloud Architect
Cla*** · St. Louis, MO, United States
St. Louis, MO, United StatesExp: 7+ yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Discretionary annual bonus; medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k); paid time off and holidays; employee assistance program; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability coverage; learning and development programs.
Location
St. Louis, MO, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Operate and evolve production cloud workloads across an estate primarily on Azure, with a growing AWS footprint. Design scalable, secure, reliable, observable, and cost-efficient infrastructure using Terraform and automation; modernize workloads with containers and Kubernetes; and develop high-availability, disaster-recovery, and AI-assisted operational practices.
Benefits
Discretionary annual bonusMedical, dental, and vision plans401(k)Paid time off and company holidaysEmployee assistance programFlexible spending accountsLife insuranceDisability coverageLearning and development programs
Qualifications
- At least 7 years of hands-on cloud experience, with strong Azure expertise and working familiarity with AWS.
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production compute, storage, networking, and application hosting workloads.
- Experience modernizing workloads with containers, Kubernetes, and other modern hosting patterns.
- Production Terraform experience, including modules and state management.
- Scripting experience with PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Experience diagnosing production incidents, tuning performance, and implementing dashboards, alerts, and log analysis.
- Working knowledge of private connectivity, DNS, and network access controls.
- Experience applying identity and access controls, secret management, and policy enforcement.
- Experience improving cloud cost visibility and efficiency through tagging, right-sizing, scaling policies, and resource utilization reviews.
- Regular use of AI tools for engineering work, with sound judgment and validation of outputs.
Responsibilities
- Design, provision, and operate production workloads across Azure and AWS.
- Improve workload reliability, performance, capacity, resilience, and supportability.
- Modernize workloads using containers, Kubernetes, and other suitable hosting patterns.
- Manage infrastructure, configuration, and images as code; build reusable automation.
- Coordinate application traffic management and workload connectivity with Network Engineering.
- Apply identity and access controls, secret management, network segmentation, hardened configurations, and policy enforcement.
- Maintain observability configuration, dashboards, monitors, service-level objectives, and actionable alerts as code.
- Improve cloud cost visibility and efficiency through allocation, right-sizing, scaling, and resource review.
- Design, document, and test high-availability, backup, failover, and disaster-recovery capabilities.
- Use AI tools and build validated AI-assisted automation for troubleshooting, incident triage, runbooks, drift detection, and documentation.
Skills
AnsibleAWSAzureBashCloudFormationDatadogKubernetesPackerPowerShellPythonTerraform
Certifications
Relevant Azure or AWS certifications preferred
Travel
Regional client service
Relocation
No