Senior Cloud Architect - IaC & Automation Leader

Dayforce; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Dayforce is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud strategy across AWS and Azure, balancing security, performance and cost. You’ll mentor platform engineering teams and drive automation and IaC modernization.

This hands-on leadership role requires designing scalable architectures, guiding CI/CD pipelines, and enforcing governance through guardrails, with a focus on security-by-design and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years designing enterprise cloud and infrastructure solutions.
• Proven IaC experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern the cloud architecture roadmap across AWS and Azure.
• Lead modernization via automation and CI/CD enablement.
• Architect secure, scalable, cost-optimized environments.
• Mentor platform engineering teams and promote IaC adoption.
• Drive governance, guardrails, and standard patterns enterprise-wide.

Skills

Cloud architecture

IaC

DevSecOps

Security design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s preferred

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Dayforce is seeking a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to lead enterprise cloud strategy across AWS and Azure, balancing security, performance and cost. You’ll mentor platform engineering teams and drive automation and IaC modernization.

This hands-on leadership role requires designing scalable architectures, guiding CI/CD pipelines, and enforcing governance through guardrails, with a focus on security-by-design and cost optimization.