Staff Cloud Architect (Houston)

Job summary

Provides architecture leadership for cloud platforms, enterprise applications, and modernization initiatives, translating business, security, and operational requirements into scalable, reliable solutions across AWS and Kubernetes environments. Establishes cloud standards and reference architectures, leads design reviews, guides infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices, and remains hands-on with proofs of concept, code and infrastructure reviews, and complex implementation challenges. The role also addresses security, resilience, observability, cost management, and mentoring across multiple engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on AWS architecture experience across core services
• Strong Kubernetes architecture and operations experience
• Advanced Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience
• Strong cloud security architecture skills
• Practical experience in designing and operating Kubernetes-based platforms in production is required.
• 10+ years of technology experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions on AWS or a comparable public cloud platform

Responsibilities

• Translate business and application requirements into end-to-end cloud solutions across compute, networking, storage, identity, security.
• Evaluate architectures for cloud best practices, security, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, challenge assumptions, evaluate options, and document decisions, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risks.
• Set architectural direction for infrastructure as code including reusable module patterns, state and environment strategies, policy guardrails, drift management, and safe promotion practices.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery
• Mentor engineers and technical leads

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