Senior Cloud Architect

Strategic expert responsible for designing, implementing and governing complex enterprise-scale cloud architectures. Technical leadership, multi-cloud strategies, cost optimization and operational excellence.

Expected tasks

  • Set up and operate cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Automate deployments via CI/CD
  • Containerize applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Monitor reliability, latency and infrastructure cost
  • Secure access, networks and secrets
  • Handle on-call incidents and write post-mortems
  • Optimize cost and performance of infrastructure

Required skills

Knowledge
system-designDistributed SystemsHigh AvailabilityScalability PatternsMicroservices ArchitectureClean ArchitectureDomain-Driven Design (DDD)
Hard skills
AWSGoogle Cloud PlatformAzureKubernetesDockerTerraformAnsiblecloudformationSQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchApache KafkaNginx
Soft skills
Critical ThinkingProblem SolvingStrategic ThinkingCommunicationStakeholder Management

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