Senior Cloud Architect — AWS-First Infra & AI

Devopsroles; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Intelex seeks a Principal Cloud Architect to lead AWS-first infrastructure with a focus on secure, cost-efficient design for SaaS and AI capabilities. You will set cloud standards, guide migration, and partner across Engineering, InfoSec, and Data & AI teams to drive execution.

You will own Terraform-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security controls while enabling scalable model serving, data pipelines, and compliant governance across the platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud infrastructure, CloudOps, DevOps, or SRE roles supporting SaaS platforms.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS architecture experience; AWS Solutions Architect Professional preferred.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and own cloud architecture vision, standards, and roadmap for AWS-first infrastructure.
• Architect AI data pipelines, model serving, data lake, and real-time streaming for production use.
• Enforce IaC standards with Terraform; CI-driven validation and secure, reusable modules.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy) for infra and apps.
• Partner with InfoSec to implement cloud security, least-privilege, and governance.
• Define observability standards with metrics, logs, traces using CloudWatch, New Relic, Azure Monitor.

Skills

Terraform

Policy as code

CI validation

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Compliance standards

Communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science / Engineering or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS ECS

Azure AKS / AKS

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

Jenkins

Snowflake

RDS / Aurora

Redis

GPU instances

LLM API integrations

Azure Monitor / CloudWatch

Job description

Intelex seeks a Principal Cloud Architect to lead AWS-first infrastructure with a focus on secure, cost-efficient design for SaaS and AI capabilities. You will set cloud standards, guide migration, and partner across Engineering, InfoSec, and Data & AI teams to drive execution.

You will own Terraform-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security controls while enabling scalable model serving, data pipelines, and compliant governance across the platform.