Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect (Hands-On)

Hidden Road; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

Wellness reimbursements

Job summary

Ripple is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Architect to own the infrastructure of our growing Reconciliation platform. You’ll set direction, architecture and design for performance, security and scalability, and establish standards for the team.

This hands-on role writes core code, builds reference implementations, and mentors engineers, while guiding long-term tradeoffs and cost without sacrificing reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing large-scale distributed infrastructure.
• 4+ years serving as a technical lead and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Set and own infrastructure architecture direction across the platform.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers.
• Establish infrastructure standards and patterns for quality and maintainability.
• Stay hands-on: prototype, build critical-path components, and contribute code.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Python

PowerShell

Docker

Spark

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Windows server

Azure

Job description

Ripple is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Architect to own the infrastructure of our growing Reconciliation platform. You’ll set direction, architecture and design for performance, security and scalability, and establish standards for the team.

This hands-on role writes core code, builds reference implementations, and mentors engineers, while guiding long-term tradeoffs and cost without sacrificing reliability.