Principal Cloud & DevOps Architect

Artisser Studio; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Remote work

Job summary

Artisser Studio is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to own architectural design for resilient multi-region cloud infrastructures, Kubernetes control planes, and zero-trust security postures across AWS, GCP, and bare-metal clusters. Downtime must be avoided in mission-critical environments.

You will design scalable cloud topologies, build GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD, implement observability and chaos testing, and lead cost optimization and disaster-recovery exercises for enterprise teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing, scaling, and maintaining multi-cloud production platforms.
• Deep mastery of Kubernetes internals, container networking, and service meshes.
• Extensive experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• Demonstrated expertise in site reliability engineering, disaster recovery, and multi-region replication.
• Strong communication skills to align executive stakeholders and technical leads.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern scalable, zero-downtime cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and bare-metal clusters with multi-region failover.
• Build Kubernetes custom operators, GitOps continuous delivery pipelines (ArgoCD), and modular Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Implement observability meshes, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), and automated chaos engineering routines.
• Establish zero-trust security perimeters, mTLS service mesh topologies (Cilium or Istio), and compliance automation frameworks.
• Guide enterprise engineering teams through cloud cost optimization and disaster-recovery simulations.

Skills

Kubernetes internals

Multi-region design

SRE & disaster recovery

Executive communication

GitOps pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

OpenTofu

ArgoCD

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Cilium

Istio

Job description

Role overview

Own architectural design for resilient multi-region cloud infrastructures, Kubernetes control planes, automated continuous delivery systems, and zero-trust security postures serving high-scale enterprise environments. The position centers on mission-critical cloud topologies across AWS, GCP, and bare-metal clusters where downtime is unacceptable.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern scalable, zero-downtime cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and bare-metal clusters with multi-region failover.
• Build Kubernetes custom operators, GitOps continuous delivery pipelines (ArgoCD), and modular Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Implement observability meshes, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), and automated chaos engineering routines.
• Establish zero-trust security perimeters, mTLS service mesh topologies (Cilium or Istio), and compliance automation frameworks.
• Guide enterprise engineering teams through cloud cost optimization and disaster-recovery simulations.

Requirements

• 6+ years designing, scaling, and maintaining multi-cloud production platforms.
• Deep mastery of Kubernetes internals, container networking (CNI, Cilium), and service meshes.
• Extensive experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• Demonstrated expertise in site reliability engineering, disaster recovery, and multi-region replication.
• Strong communication skills to align executive stakeholders and technical leads.

Nice to have

• Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes deployments and hybrid cloud setups.
• Knowledge of SOC2 Type II, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 regulatory compliance.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote, full-time, globally distributed.
• Compensation of $200,000 – $260,000 plus profit share.
• Asynchronous working rituals with an engineering pod structure.