Cloud Architect, Platform Engineering — AWS & IaC

Xona Space; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Xona Space is seeking a Cloud Architect to own and scale our AWS cloud infrastructure, focusing on high availability, security, and cost efficiency. You will partner with product teams and SRE to deliver reliable, scalable platforms that empower rapid deployments.

The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on Platform Engineering, leveraging Terraform, CDK, ECS/EKS, and top-tier observability tooling to enable self-service for developers across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience with at least 4+ years in cloud architecture and AWS.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect).
• Extensive IaC experience and CI/CD pipelines (Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Solid containerization and orchestration knowledge (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS).
• Security-focused design with Least Privilege and Zero Trust principles.
• FinOps experience with cloud cost management and resource tagging.

Responsibilities

• Own, evolve, and scale our AWS multi-account cloud architecture with high availability and DR.
• Design and manage complex enterprise networking topologies for secure, low-latency connectivity.
• Drive IaC standardization and automation of provisioning using Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Collaborate with SRE to implement robust monitoring, logging, and tracing (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch).
• Provide internal consultancy for product engineering with self-service infrastructure templates and best practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

IaC

Networking

Automation

Security

FinOps

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Datadog

Prometheus

AWS CloudWatch

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ECS

EKS

Job description

Xona Space is seeking a Cloud Architect to own and scale our AWS cloud infrastructure, focusing on high availability, security, and cost efficiency. You will partner with product teams and SRE to deliver reliable, scalable platforms that empower rapid deployments.

The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on Platform Engineering, leveraging Terraform, CDK, ECS/EKS, and top-tier observability tooling to enable self-service for developers across the organization.