Enterprise Cloud Architect — Lead Modernization & Strategy

Ampcus Inc; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect (Enterprise) to define, design, and govern scalable cloud platforms across the enterprise in Fort Mill, SC.

You will lead end‑to‑end architecture for cloud modernization, guiding security, networking, data, and operations teams to deliver compliant, cost‑efficient services at scale. The role requires 10+ years in architecture with 5+ years in cloud, strong IaC, security, and observability expertise, plus leadership and stakeholder skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in architecture/engineering with 5+ years focused on cloud (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP a plus).
• Proven delivery of enterprise landing zones, multi-account structures, and secure network designs at scale.
• IaC: Terraform; configuration management: Ansible; CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Cloud security, IAM, KMS, network security, secrets management, and audit readiness.
• Container platforms: EKS/ECS, Docker, Kubernetes or serverless architectures.
• SRE practices, observability, incident/problem management in production.
• Translate business needs into architectures, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud strategy, reference architectures, and landing zones.
• Lead modernization, migration, and platform engineering roadmaps.
• Establish guardrails, policies, and FinOps practices for governance.
• Perform architecture reviews and advise engineering and business stakeholders.
• Design enterprise landing zones, multi-VPC networks, and secure baselines.
• Implement IaC at scale with reusable modules and pipelines.
• Ensure security by design, compliance mapping, and audit readiness.
• Drive observability with SRE, SLIs/SLOs, and runbooks.
• Mentor engineers, lead workshops, and influence vendors and partners.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

SRE practices

Observability

Leadership

Communication

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect (Enterprise) to define, design, and govern scalable cloud platforms across the enterprise in Fort Mill, SC.

You will lead end‑to‑end architecture for cloud modernization, guiding security, networking, data, and operations teams to deliver compliant, cost‑efficient services at scale. The role requires 10+ years in architecture with 5+ years in cloud, strong IaC, security, and observability expertise, plus leadership and stakeholder skills.