Principal Cloud Architect: AI-Ready, Secure & Scalable AWS

Fortive Corporation; Canada; Remote; CAD 137,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortive Corporation, with Intelex, seeks a Principal Cloud Architect to lead cloud strategy, governance, and platform modernization. You will shape the AWS-first infrastructure, drive secure, scalable designs, and collaborate across Engineering, DevOps, and InfoSec to enable AI-ready data platforms.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in cloud infra roles, strong Kubernetes and AWS experience, and a knack for shaping cost-aware, compliant architecture.

Qualifications

• Terraform module design, security policy-as-code and CI-integrated validation.
• Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native patterns.
• Strong governance and compliance experience (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Excellent written and verbal communication for leadership briefs.

Responsibilities

• Define and own cloud architecture vision, standards and roadmap.
• Design secure, highly available AWS-first infrastructure and multi-cloud patterns.
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and data platform enablement for AI products.
• Collaborate with Engineering, InfoSec and Data & AI teams on standards and delivery.
• Establish IaC standards with Terraform and CI-driven validation.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, and related tooling.
• Champion cost governance, security controls, and auditable telemetry.

Skills

Terraform module design

Security policy-as-code

CI-integrated infra validation

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)

AWS (ECS)

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy/Jenkins

Bash, Python, PowerShell

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR

Strong communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)

AWS ECS

Docker

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Fortive Corporation, with Intelex, seeks a Principal Cloud Architect to lead cloud strategy, governance, and platform modernization. You will shape the AWS-first infrastructure, drive secure, scalable designs, and collaborate across Engineering, DevOps, and InfoSec to enable AI-ready data platforms.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in cloud infra roles, strong Kubernetes and AWS experience, and a knack for shaping cost-aware, compliant architecture.