Cloud Platform Architect

Cloud Hybrid Technologies, LLC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Jersey City, NJ, seeks a Platform Architect to design and evolve a comprehensive platform strategy. This role involves leading infrastructure modernization, automation adoption, and implementing a platform-as-a-product approach. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in platform engineering, cloud services, and automation frameworks. Responsibilities include defining technical architectures, developing reference architectures, and overseeing compliance and security standards. The company is dedicated to equal opportunity employment and values diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing scalable and secure platform strategies.
• Proficiency in cloud and hybrid infrastructure management.
• Strong background in automation frameworks and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of enterprise-wide platform strategies.
• Establish best practices for automation and infrastructure management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless integration.

Skills

Platform engineering

Infrastructure as code (IaC)

Cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

CI/CD processes

Site reliability engineering (SRE)

DevSecOps principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Datadog

Kubernetes

Job description

The Platform Architect is responsible for designing and evolving the enterprise‑wide platform strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure to support IT services and business applications. This role focuses on defining the technical architecture, automation frameworks, and governance models for Platform Engineering, ensuring a seamless integration of cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments.

The Platform Architect will lead infrastructure modernization, automation adoption, and the transition to a platform-as-a-product approach while collaborating with engineering, operations, security, and development teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the technical vision for platform engineering, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
• Develop reference architectures for cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Establish standardized patterns for platform automation, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and self‑service provisioning.
• Lead the design of APIs and platform integrations to ensure seamless interoperability across tools and teams.
• Oversee the development and implementation of IaC frameworks using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Define automation roadmaps for infrastructure provisioning, compliance enforcement, and operational workflows.
• Work with CI/CD engineers to streamline infrastructure automation and release processes.

3. Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Strategy

• Develop a multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud strategy, ensuring cost efficiency, security, and performance optimization.
• Standardize networking, identity, and security models across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Define best practices for container orchestration, Kubernetes management, and microservices deployment.

4. Observability, Performance, & Reliability Engineering

• Architect enterprise observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or Datadog.
• Establish site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Develop proactive monitoring and self‑healing automation frameworks.

5. Security, Compliance, & Governance

• Ensure platform security alignment with zero‑trust models, access controls, and encryption standards.
• Define policies for automated security compliance and cloud governance.
• Collaborate with security architects to integrate DevSecOps principles into the platform.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Cloud, Security, and Development teams to implement scalable solutions.
• Drive a culture of automation‑first engineering by mentoring engineers and advocating for DevOps and SRE best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical governance meetings to ensure consistency across teams.

Cloud Hybrid is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. Cloud Hybrid will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will Cloud Hybrid require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.