Senior AWS Cloud Architect & Platform Automation

Vertafore; Denver (CO); Presencial; USD 160.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work model

Travel up to 10%

Descripción de la vacante

Vertafore is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to design, advance, and govern AWS platforms that support our B2B SaaS products. You will lead architecture, automation, reliability, security, and cloud financial management while collaborating with FinOps, SRE, security, EA, and development teams.

You will solve complex infrastructure challenges, establish reusable standards, and drive technical direction through expertise to enable scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions across the

Formación

• 12+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating AWS environments supporting business-critical B2B SaaS or comparable enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with enterprise AWS architecture, multi-account environments, networking, IAM, compute, storage, databases, observability, and security.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS networking including VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, security groups, private connectivity, and hybrid networking.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong automation and scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or comparable languages.
• Strong Linux and/or Windows production systems experience.
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, resilience engineering, and high‑severity incident response.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, application, network, storage, and performance issues.
• Understanding of cloud financial management and AWS cost optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with SRE, architecture, security, development, operations, and FinOps teams.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across teams without direct organizational authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with engineers, architects, product teams, and senior leadership, preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Lead design and governance of AWS architectures for enterprise SaaS products.
• Lead architecture and design reviews involving multiple technical disciplines and drive decisions to closure.
• Define reference architectures and reusable infrastructure patterns across accounts and environments.
• Lead cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, and major platform changes.
• Establish monitoring, logs, metrics, and telemetry standards for reliability.
• Partner with FinOps on cost, licensing, and utilization optimization.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the organization.
• Develop documentation, standards, reference architectures, and operational practices.

Conocimientos

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Collaboration

SRE collaboration

Automation

Observability

Security

Financial management

DevOps

Incident response

Herramientas

Terraform

OpenTofu

CloudFormation

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Descripción del empleo

Vertafore is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to design, advance, and govern AWS platforms that support our B2B SaaS products. You will lead architecture, automation, reliability, security, and cloud financial management while collaborating with FinOps, SRE, security, EA, and development teams.

You will solve complex infrastructure challenges, establish reusable standards, and drive technical direction through expertise to enable scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions across the