Senior Cloud Architect - SOC2, AWS & Terraform Lead

Cooley AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Health Savings Account

Dental

Vision

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Cooley AI seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to own the technical architecture of a SOC2-compliant SaaS platform on AWS with hybrid Azure/Databricks connectivity. This foundational leadership role shapes infrastructure, security, and delivery decisions across teams.

You will design reusable deployment patterns, mentor engineers, and partner with security and HR to guide staffing and development. Bachelor's degree preferred; 7+ years of cloud infra experience is expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years direct applicable experience (cloud infra/architecture).
• Extensive hands-on with AWS (IAM, networking, Organizations) and Terraform at scale.
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid architectures involving Azure connectivity.
• Ability to set technical direction while remaining hands-on during buildout.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Terraform modules, CI/CD templates, and cloud infra enforcing SOC 2-compliant patterns by default.
• Own the paved road used by product engineers for deployment.
• Partner with the DevSecOps Engineer to validate security requirements in every template.
• Maintain governance reporting to Head of Information Security and compliance matters.
• Supervise and mentor direct reports; manage staffing, time logs and time off requests.
• Support professional development and HR lifecycle events.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Security mindset

Infrastructure as code

Hands-on leadership

Technical direction

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Azure

Databricks

Job description

Cooley AI seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to own the technical architecture of a SOC2-compliant SaaS platform on AWS with hybrid Azure/Databricks connectivity. This foundational leadership role shapes infrastructure, security, and delivery decisions across teams.

You will design reusable deployment patterns, mentor engineers, and partner with security and HR to guide staffing and development. Bachelor's degree preferred; 7+ years of cloud infra experience is expected.