Senior AWS Cloud Architect & Platform Engineering Lead

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior cloud architect to design and lead large-scale AWS cloud platforms for a global engineering workforce. You will shape platform engineering, automation, and container orchestration while partnering with Design Engineering, Software, and Security teams to deliver scalable, secure cloud environments.

The role emphasizes DevOps maturity, reference architectures, and strong IaC practices across multi-region deployments with travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise IT experience.
• 5+ years designing large-scale AWS cloud solutions.
• Experience supporting organizations with 5,000+ users.
• Experience enabling global software engineering teams.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience.
• Ability to translate business and engineering requirements into scalable reference architectures.
• Experience operating in highly regulated and security-conscious environments.
• BS, MS or PhD + 12 years of experience or other equitable years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and advance cloud-based platforms and engineering solutions.
• Serve as a technical leader for AWS cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, container orchestration, and developer enablement services.
• Support a global engineering community exceeding 5,000 users across North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Design large-scale enterprise cloud environments, modern application platforms, DevOps ecosystems, CI/CD services, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Partner with Design Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Operations teams.
• Deliver secure, scalable, highly available, and automated solutions that accelerate product development and engineering productivity.
• Perform activities safely and responsibly while supporting Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS expertise

Global collaboration

Platform engineering

DevOps leadership

Reference architectures

Education

BS, MS or PhD + 12 years of experience or equivalent

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Artifactory

JIRA

SonarQube

Backstage

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

GitOps

Python

Bash/Shell

PowerShell

REST APIs

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a senior cloud architect to design and lead large-scale AWS cloud platforms for a global engineering workforce. You will shape platform engineering, automation, and container orchestration while partnering with Design Engineering, Software, and Security teams to deliver scalable, secure cloud environments.

The role emphasizes DevOps maturity, reference architectures, and strong IaC practices across multi-region deployments with travel up to 10%.