Cloud Architect: Multi-Cloud, AWS ECS & Terraform

Certegy Payment Solutions; Roanoke (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Certegy Payment Solutions is seeking a Cloud Architect to define and drive our cloud platform vision across AWS and OCI, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable systems in a multi-cloud footprint. You’ll lead modernization and partner with engineering, product, security, and operations to evolve critical services.

The role emphasizes container-based architectures (Docker, ECS), Terraform-based provisioning, and collaboration with security teams to embed IAM and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s preferred.
• 10+ years building large-scale systems.
• 5+ years designing and operating cloud-based enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud architecture strategy across platforms and patterns—driving outcomes in reliability, security, scalability, and delivery velocity.
• Design and govern container architectures using Docker and AWS ECS, including standards for service design, networking, scaling, and operational readiness.
• Define deployment and release practices for ECS-based services.
• Partner with engineering to ensure architecture becomes robust implementation through reviews and reference designs.
• Drive integration architecture that connects legacy systems with modern cloud services and APIs.
• Collaborate with security and risk stakeholders to embed security-by-design and IAM best practices.
• Improve observability, incident learnings, and continuous improvement.
• Document and spread best practices across teams; mentor engineers to raise cloud delivery standards.
• Bring a customer service mindset, ensuring responsiveness and clear expectations with stakeholders.

Skills

AWS ECS

Docker

AWS Fargate

Terraform

Linux

Resiliency

Cost optimization

Agile delivery

Security by design

Observability

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS ECS

AWS

Job description

Certegy Payment Solutions is seeking a Cloud Architect to define and drive our cloud platform vision across AWS and OCI, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable systems in a multi-cloud footprint. You’ll lead modernization and partner with engineering, product, security, and operations to evolve critical services.

The role emphasizes container-based architectures (Docker, ECS), Terraform-based provisioning, and collaboration with security teams to embed IAM and governance.