Architecture Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect Remote (US)

Financial Infrastructure, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Financial Infrastructure, Inc. is seeking a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, secure, automate, and scale the cloud platform powering A8 Core™.

This remote role in the United States reports to the Chief Architect and sits in Architecture. You will define future-state architectures for Azure, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, platform engineering, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery while modernizing a sophisticated financial infrastructure platform handling regulated

Qualifications

• 12+ years of infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years of cloud architecture experience.
• Strong Terraform experience.
• Experience operating production financial systems.
• Deep understanding of networking and security.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the A8 Core cloud platform.
• Lead migration to cloud-native infrastructure.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep.
• Define AKS platform standards.
• Build automated deployment pipelines.
• Improve reliability, resiliency, and scalability.
• Implement platform observability standards.
• Partner with Security and Engineering teams.
• Reduce operational complexity and technical debt.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud architecture

Terraform

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Security

Networking

SRE leadership

ISO 27001

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

AKS

GitOps

Job description

Service status · A8 Core™ · The Operating System for Financial Accounts · The account operating system · API-first

Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect

The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, securing, automating, and scaling the cloud platform that powers A8 Core™.

Location Remote (United States) Reports to Chief Architect Team Architecture

The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, securing, automating, and scaling the cloud platform that powers A8 Core™.

This role owns the cloud foundation upon which every application, API, workflow, AI service, and customer experience depends.

You will define the future-state architecture for Azure, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, platform engineering, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery while helping modernize a sophisticated financial infrastructure platform supporting highly regulated workloads.

What you’ll own

• Network topology and segmentation
• Platform governance
• Container platform standards
• Service mesh architecture

DevSecOps

• Infrastructure as Code
• GitOps
• Security automation
• Release governance

Reliability Engineering

• Site Reliability Engineering practices
• SLO and SLA frameworks
• Disaster recovery
• High availability
• Operational resilience

Security Architecture

• Zero Trust infrastructure
• Secrets management
• Identity infrastructure
• Security observability

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the A8 Core™ cloud platform
• Lead migration to cloud-native infrastructure
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep
• Define AKS platform standards
• Build automated deployment pipelines
• Improve reliability, resiliency, and scalability
• Implement platform observability standards
• Partner with Security and Engineering teams
• Reduce operational complexity and technical debt

Qualifications

Required

• 12+ years of infrastructure engineering experience
• 5+ years of cloud architecture experience
• Strong Terraform experience
• Experience operating production financial systems
• Deep understanding of networking and security
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices

Preferred

• Custody or banking platform experience
• SRE leadership experience
• SOC 2 and ISO 27001 experience

Technical environment

Cloud

Containers

Infrastructure

Security

Observability

Your first year

First 90 Days

• Complete infrastructure assessment

First 6 Months

• Improve platform observability

First 12 Months

• Deliver cloud-native modernization objectives
• Improve platform resiliency
• Reduce operational risk

Why join A8 Core™

You will architect the cloud foundation for a next-generation financial infrastructure platform and help define how modern financial systems are built and operated.