Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect - Ashburn

ByteDance; Ashburn (GA); On-site; USD 92,160 - 230,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid personal time

Job summary

ByteDance in Ashburn is seeking an experienced infrastructure resource planner to forecast, design, and optimize resource architectures for scalable platforms. You will drive automation and collaborate with teams to mature modules and capacity planning.

The role emphasizes cloud-native practices, multi-cloud architectures, and architecture evolution to support business growth and efficiency. A strong background in operating systems, networks, and databases is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer-related fields; familiarity with ICT and computer architecture.
• Ability to systematically solve problems, good communication, ownership, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Forecast load and resource needs for medium- and long-term planning.
• Improve platform modules via automation to optimize resource capacity.
• Plan NPIs and architecture replacements with stakeholders.
• Conduct resource architecture reviews for key business areas.
• Align architecture initiatives with business goals and growth.
• Understand resource dependencies and prioritization of core concerns (resources, availability, cost).
• Inform businesses about real-time optimization opportunities.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Ownership

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Container Technology

Cloud Services

AI Infrastructure

Multi-cloud Architecture

Job description

Location: Ashburn

Team: Infrastructure

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A199473A

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business operations, forecast future load and resource requirements, analyze historical and existing business behaviors and data trends, and make corresponding resource planning and adjustments to build medium- and long-term resource planning and architecture layout.
• Promote the maturity and improvement of platform modules, address resource layout, fulfillment, and management issues through automation and engineering means, and formulate resource capacity and management rules.
• Promote internal and external manufacturers to establish architecture evolution plans, and formulate medium- and long-term NPI introduction & architecture replacement mechanisms.
• Conduct a special resource architecture review for top businesses in terms of resource inventory.
• Starting from the goal of achieving business development.
• Understand the dependencies of business resource architecture.
• Understand the prioritization of core business concerns (resources, availability, cost).
• Help businesses stay informed about potential opportunities for architecture optimization in real-time.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, majoring in computer-related fields, familiar with information and communication technology as well as computer architecture, such as operating systems, networks, databases, etc.
• Possess the ability to systematically solve problems, good communication skills, and a sense of ownership, as well as teamwork and communication capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience with AI infrastructure, cloud‑native practices, and multi‑cloud architectures.
• Familiarity with Cloud Service, AI infrastructure, Container Technology, and microservice architecture, with corresponding practical experience preferred.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $92,160 - $230,400 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits

Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues; 2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and 3. Exercising sound judgment.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request