Principal Cloud Reliability Architect

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JobTailor seeks an seasoned cloud and infrastructure engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud/hybrid infrastructure for production workloads. You will lead IaC adoption with Terraform/CloudFormation and architect multi-cloud solutions spanning OCI, AWS, Azure, and on-prem data centers.

You will drive observability, SRE practices, and automated deployments while mentoring engineers and partnering with security/compliance teams to ensure production readiness and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud and infrastructure engineering with 3+ years in senior roles
• Experience with OCI (preferred), AWS and/or Azure
• Proven ability to manage production-scale environments for mission-critical apps and services
• Strong proficiency with IaC, CI/CD toolchains, and container orchestration
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and networking in hybrid environments
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives from concept to execution

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud/hybrid infrastructure for production workloads.
• Lead IaC adoption using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools for repeatable deployments.
• Architect scalable, fault-tolerant solutions across OCI, AWS, Azure, and on-prem data centers.
• Evaluate emerging cloud services for business needs and scalability.
• Serve as technical lead for production operations ensuring uptime and reliability.
• Develop observability frameworks with metrics, logs, and traces.
• Partner with engineering to implement SRE practices including SLOs and post-incident reviews.
• Drive root cause analysis and performance tuning of production services
• Collaborate with DevOps to build automated deployment pipelines for frequent releases
• Integrate security/compliance checks into CI/CD workflows
• Design self-healing infrastructure with automated rollback mechanisms
• Ensure secure configuration management and environment orchestration with Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Establish operational best practices for monitoring, patching, and change management
• Lead production readiness reviews for new releases and major changes
• Collaborate with Security/Compliance to meet policy and hardening standards
• Participate in on-call rotations for critical systems
• Mentor cloud and infrastructure engineers
• Lead architectural reviews and capacity planning discussions
• Advise on cloud modernization, resilience engineering, and cost optimization

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Mentoring

Collaboration

Leadership

Incident management

Capacity planning

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

JobTailor seeks an seasoned cloud and infrastructure engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud/hybrid infrastructure for production workloads. You will lead IaC adoption with Terraform/CloudFormation and architect multi-cloud solutions spanning OCI, AWS, Azure, and on-prem data centers.

You will drive observability, SRE practices, and automated deployments while mentoring engineers and partnering with security/compliance teams to ensure production readiness and cost efficiency.