Cloud Strategy Architect & Innovation Lead

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Incentives

Job summary

Capital One in New York seeks a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to drive our cloud infrastructure strategy, including connectivity, landing zones, and platform management. You will work with senior leaders across the enterprise to execute that strategy.

You will lead cross‑team projects, define long‑term platform standards, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, secure cloud solutions and advancing AI-enabled automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related quantitative field.
• 9+ years in software engineering; 6+ years in cloud engineering.
• Experience with public cloud platforms and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a bold technical vision for cloud domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Drive cloud platform strategy and modernization of monolithic systems to microservices.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Distributed systems

CI/CD orchestration

Kubernetes

Java/Scala/Python/Go/Node.js

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Infrastructure as Code

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Crossplane

OPA

Job description

Capital One in New York seeks a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to drive our cloud infrastructure strategy, including connectivity, landing zones, and platform management. You will work with senior leaders across the enterprise to execute that strategy.

You will lead cross‑team projects, define long‑term platform standards, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, secure cloud solutions and advancing AI-enabled automation.