Senior Cloud Architect – Hybrid & Secure, Scalable

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 97,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Benefits package

Generous vacation

Job summary

Bluepeak is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer III to lead the design and governance of our cloud platforms. You will define scalable, secure architectures across public and hybrid clouds and partner with IT, Security, and Engineering teams.

This senior role requires 8+ years in cloud/infrastructure, mastery of Azure/AWS/GCP, and hands-on IaC. You will mentor engineers, drive standards, and guide incident response while aligning with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a cloud, infrastructure, or engineering role.
• Architecture or technical leadership experience preferred.
• Experience designing and governing cloud architectures on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong expertise in cloud networking, security architecture, and identity management.
• Experience with IaC, automation, and monitoring in cloud environments.
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design, define, and govern scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures across public and hybrid cloud environments.
• Architect and standardize multi-tier cloud environments supporting production, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
• Develop and maintain cloud reference architectures, patterns, and standards to guide engineering implementation.
• Define and govern cloud networking architectures, including virtual networks, routing, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, and private connectivity.
• Design and enforce cloud security architecture, including identity and access management, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, and encryption.
• Partner with Engineering teams to ensure infrastructure-as-code implementations align with approved architectural standards.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to ensure cloud architectures meet regulatory, audit, and internal security requirements.
• Define observability standards for cloud environments, including performance, availability, capacity, and cost management metrics.
• Provide architectural guidance during incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation planning.
• Support application teams with cloud-native design patterns, migration strategies, and performance optimization guidance.
• Evaluate emerging cloud services and technologies and recommend adoption aligned with business and technical objectives.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, standards documentation, and design artifacts.
• Mentor engineers and influence best practices across the Engineering & IT organization.
• Influence others within the job area through explanation of architectural principles, policies, and standards.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Azure

AWS

GCP

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Security architecture

DevOps

SRE principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Bluepeak is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer III to lead the design and governance of our cloud platforms. You will define scalable, secure architectures across public and hybrid clouds and partner with IT, Security, and Engineering teams.

This senior role requires 8+ years in cloud/infrastructure, mastery of Azure/AWS/GCP, and hands-on IaC. You will mentor engineers, drive standards, and guide incident response while aligning with regulatory requirements.