Senior Cloud Platform Architect | AWS, Kubernetes, PCI/SOC2

Metropolis Technologies

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 225,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Disability insurance (short/long-term)

Life insurance

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Job summary

Metropolis Technologies in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to architect, scale, and maintain highly resilient cloud environments across multiple products. You will lead modernization efforts (CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, and more), guide junior engineers, ensure security and compliance, and drive incident response with blameless postmortems.

You will collaborate across teams to optimize performance and reliability, manage complex integrations, and champion best

Qualifications

BS degree in Computer Science or related field; 5+ years in cloud infra, or 8+ years with equivalent experience.
Hands-on AWS, Terraform, and Python automation experience.
Experience with observability stacks (Datadog) and defining SLOs/SLIs.
Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, and service mesh (Envoy/Istio) expertise.
Secrets management incl. Infisical/Vault/AWS Secrets Manager; PCI/SOC2 focus.
Experience with MSK (Kafka) and AWS DBs like Aurora; strong security practices.

Responsibilities

Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure environments across multiple products.
Design and manage infrastructure modernization initiatives (CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes) and complex integrations.
Craft disaster recovery strategies and production-grade solutions to safeguard uptime.
Serve as technical focal point for troubleshooting and incident response; lead root-cause analyses.
Ensure cloud environments meet PCI and SOC2 security and compliance guidelines.
Provide leadership and mentorship to junior/mid-level engineers to scale capability.