Jobs / U.S. Venture, Inc.
Cloud Architect (IGEN)
U.S. Venture, Inc. · Appleton, WI, United States
Appleton, WI, United StatesExp: 7+ yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Appleton, WI, United States
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
U.S. Venture will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H-1B, TN, E-3, F1, CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, visa status and other employment‑based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis and must not require U.S. Venture’s sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States. In general, U.S. Venture does not sponsor candidates for nonimmigrant visas or permanent residency except when there is a specific business need.
Job summary
The Cloud Architect provides technical leadership for a hybrid, multi-cloud environment, encompassing on-premises private cloud and public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. This role is responsible for the reference architecture, driving platform automation and reliability, and collaborating with various teams to deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure foundations. The ideal candidate will have progressive IT experience with a focus on cloud architecture/engineering.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Progressive IT experience with 7+ years focused on cloud architecture/engineering.
- Expertise in Terraform and/or Bicep.
- Strong scripting (PowerShell or Python) and automation mindset.
- Solid networking (VNet/VPC design, DNS, VPN/ExpressRoute/Interconnect, load balancers, firewalls) and IAM.
- Production experience with containers and Kubernetes (AKS/GKE).
- Observability design and SRE practices.
- Proven incident leadership and post‑mortem facilitation.
- CI/CD pipeline design (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) with testing, security scanning, and policy gates.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and support planned maintenance during off-hours.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for hybrid, multi-cloud estate.
- Own reference architecture for infrastructure.
- Drive platform automation and reliability.
- Partner with product, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, cost-effective, and resilient infrastructure foundations.
- Translate reference architectures into detailed designs and implementation plans for landing zones, networking, and IAM.
- Engineer scalable platforms with high availability and performance aligned to business SLOs and DR requirements.
- Create golden images/templates and secure baselines for repeatable deployments.
- Build robust Terraform modules.
- Integrate validation, testing, and security scanning into pipelines.
- Implement GitOps (Bitbucket pipelines) workflows.
- Improve release reliability and rollback safety.
- Guide teams on branching strategies and code review standards.
- Lead complex incident response.
- Perform post‑incident reviews.
- Drive preventive engineering.
- Establish capacity planning and performance testing practices for critical services.
- Evolve runbooks to reduce MTTR and increase operational readiness.
- Implement Zero Trust principles.
- Design RBAC models and service identities.
- Integrate secrets management.
Skills
AKSAnsibleAWSAWS KMSAzureAzure DevOpsAzure Key VaultAzure MonitorBicepBitbucketBitbucket PipelinesChefDockerGCPGitGitHubGitHub ActionsGKEIAMKubernetesOpen Policy AgentPackerPowerShellPythonCloud MonitoringTerraformVaultVMwareSecrets Manager
Certifications
Azure Solutions Architect ExpertAzure AdministratorAzure Security EngineerGoogle Professional Cloud ArchitectProfessional DevOpsTerraform AssociateCKACKAD
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Languages
PowerShellPython
Work schedule
On-call rotationSupport planned maintenance during off-hours
Travel
Some travel required to Appleton
Relocation
No