Senior Cloud Architect — AWS & Enterprise Solutions

Caylent; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pay in USD

Remote work

Generous holidays and flexible PTO

Competitive phantom equity

Paid for exams and certifications

Peer bonus awards

State of the art laptop and tools

Equipment stipend

Individual professional development

Annual learning stipend

Worldwide team culture

Job summary

Caylent is seeking a Principal Architect to join our Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. The right candidate has deep cloud expertise and a passion for delivering AWS-based solutions to diverse customers, partners, and colleagues.

You will lead architectural strategy, guide delivery, mentor engineers, and engage in pre-sales activities while shaping Caylent’s technical leadership across projects and practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of architecting in enterprise environments, preferably consulting.
• Clear communication of objectives and solutions with client relationships.
• Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking across business, product, and tech.
• Strong expertise in serverless AWS and IaC-based deployments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical advisor across multiple engagements and workstreams.
• Collaborate with clients to understand goals and design high-impact cloud solutions.
• Lead discovery sessions, present artifacts, and define long-term architectural strategy.
• Mentor architects and engineers to elevate technical execution.
• Support pre-sales with proposals, scoping, and technical estimates.
• Represent Caylent with delivery excellence and deep technical leadership.

Skills

Architect experience

Client relationships

Strategic thinking

Serverless AWS

IaC and DevOps

Tools

API Gateway

Lambda

S3

SNS

SQS

CloudFront

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Docker

ECS

Fargate

Job description

Caylent is seeking a Principal Architect to join our Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. The right candidate has deep cloud expertise and a passion for delivering AWS-based solutions to diverse customers, partners, and colleagues.

You will lead architectural strategy, guide delivery, mentor engineers, and engage in pre-sales activities while shaping Caylent’s technical leadership across projects and practices.