Senior Cloud Architect

robotsandpencils; United States; Remote; USD 73,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Robots and Pencils in the United States seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to design and deliver complex cloud, data, and AI systems. You will blend hands-on engineering with architectural ownership, collaborating with cross‑functional delivery teams to create scalable, secure, maintainable solutions for enterprise workflows.

You will own components end to end, build cloud‑native services, apply infrastructure as code and CI/CD, and shape data pipelines and ML model serving.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional software engineering experience.
• Designing and delivering cloud-based systems with AWS/Azure/Google Cloud.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, or orchestration.
• Able to explain technical tradeoffs across application, data and AI/ML domains.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, data, AI, product and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems while owning meaningful components end to end.
• Build and integrate cloud-native services, including microservices, serverless apps, and container workloads.
• Implement infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design or contribute to data pipelines, warehouses, and data models.
• Support ML systems through model serving, MLOps, and large-language-model integration.
• Establish monitoring, logging, observability, documentation, and design reviews.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Containers / orchestration

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML awareness

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Role overview

Senior Cloud Architect supporting the design and delivery of complex systems across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and artificial intelligence. The role combines hands-on engineering with growing architectural ownership, working within cross-functional delivery teams to produce scalable, secure, maintainable solutions for real-world enterprise workflows.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems while owning meaningful components end to end.
• Build and integrate cloud-native services, including microservices, serverless applications, and containerized workloads.
• Implement infrastructure as code and continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Design or contribute to data pipelines, warehouses, and data models.
• Support machine-learning systems through model serving, MLOps workflows, and integration of large-language-model capabilities.
• Establish monitoring, logging, observability, architecture documentation, and constructive design-review practices.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional software engineering experience.
• Practical experience designing and delivering cloud-based systems, with familiarity across services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, or orchestration platforms.
• Ability to work across application, data, and AI/ML concerns and explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Strong collaboration skills for working with engineering, data, AI, product, and architecture stakeholders.
• Willingness to use modern AI-assisted development tools as part of day-to-day delivery.

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation; GitHub Actions; Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, or dbt; and SageMaker, Vertex AI, or MLflow.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, or CloudWatch.
• Interest in mentoring engineers and helping establish shared architectural standards.

Benefits and work setup

The role is intended for candidates located in Canada or the United States. The listed compensation range is approximately $53-$73 USD per hour. Eligible employees may receive paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k).