Principal Cloud Architect

My3Tech; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to spearhead its cloud strategy, focusing on AWS technologies while mentoring a skilled engineering team. This role encompasses investigating new cloud technologies, ensuring high availability, and shaping a scalable cloud architecture to align with business goals. Located in Salt Lake City, this position offers the opportunity to lead innovative projects and foster team development.

Qualifications

• 6 years of IT experience focused on cloud technologies.
• 3 years of experience with AWS services and automation tools.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect Professional.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud initiatives, leveraging AWS services to meet organizational needs.
• Mentor engineers, fostering growth and innovation within the team.
• Ensure AWS best practices for architecture, security, and scalability.

Skills

AWS expertise

Mentoring

Infrastructure-as-Code

DevOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

The Principal Cloud Architect will lead and optimize cloud strategy, focusing on AWS technologies to drive innovation and scalable solutions. This role involves investigating new cloud technologies, mentoring engineers, and working cross-functionally to support business objectives. You will shape and implement cloud architecture to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and cost-efficient scaling while mentoring and empowering your team.

In this role, you'll work with advanced messaging systems like Pulsar, Kafka, Redpanda, Google PubSub, Amazon MSK, and NATS. You'll dive into real-time analytics with tools like Pinot, Druid, and Clickhouse, and leverage event processing FaaS technologies including Pulsar Functions, Apache Flink, and OpenFaaS.

You'll also implement and manage sophisticated AuthZ technologies like Google Zanzibar, SpiceDB, and OpenFGA, ensuring robust and scalable authorization solutions.

Job Duties

• Lead cloud initiatives, leveraging AWS services to meet organizational needs.
• Mentor engineers, fostering growth and innovation within the team.
• Research and implement new cloud technologies and tools.
• Ensure AWS best practices for architecture, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud strategies with business goals.
• Oversee cloud governance, including security, compliance, and identity management.
• Contribute to internal summits and share cloud architecture insights.
• Create documentation and training materials to share expertise.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expertise in AWS (EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3) and cloud strategy.
• Experience with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization.
• Familiarity with cloud security, IAM, and compliance frameworks.
• Strong DevOps and CI / CD experience.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Must Have Skills :

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
• 6 years of IT experience, focusing on cloud technologies.
• 3 years of experience with AWS services and automation tools.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect Professional.

Nice to Have Skills :

• Experience with AWS Lambda, Kafka, or edge technologies (Fastly).
• Background in machine learning, data engineering, or large-scale data systems.
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and performance tuning.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.

Required Skills : - Expertise in AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudFront) and cloud strategy. - Pro level AWS certification in either DevOps or Solutions Architect - Certified Kubernetes Admin - MUST be located in SLC, Utah

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Drug Screen : Yes

Notes :

Selling points for candidate :

Exclusive to Apex : No

Face to face interview required : Yes

Candidate must be local : No

Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship : : No

Interview times set : Yes

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