Senior Cloud Platform Architect: AWS & Networking

Xona-Space-Systems; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xona is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to join the Platform Engineering team. You will own our core cloud infrastructure and AWS-based network topology, driving reliability, security, and scalable deployment of services across environments.

In this role you will partner with SRE and product teams, shaping platform strategy and delivering self-service infrastructure templates, cost-aware designs, and robust observability to support rapid engineering progress.

Qualifications

• 7+ years IT experience with 4+ years in cloud architecture on AWS.
• Deep knowledge of AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect) and hybrid connectivity.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CDK) and CI/CD knowledge.
• Container technologies and orchestration with ECS and EKS.
• Security design using least privilege and zero trust.
• FinOps and cloud cost management practices.

Responsibilities

• Own, evolve, and scale AWS multi-account architecture for high availability and DR.
• Design and manage networking topologies for secure, low-latency connectivity.
• Drive IaC standardization and automation with Terraform and CDK.
• Improve reliability and observability with monitoring and tracing using Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch.
• Provide internal engineering teams with self-service infra templates and guidance.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization (ECS/EKS)

Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway)

Security best practices / Zero Trust

FinOps / cost optimization

Automation scripting (Python/Bash)

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Datadog

Prometheus

CloudWatch

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Direct Connect

Job description

Xona is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to join the Platform Engineering team. You will own our core cloud infrastructure and AWS-based network topology, driving reliability, security, and scalable deployment of services across environments.

In this role you will partner with SRE and product teams, shaping platform strategy and delivering self-service infrastructure templates, cost-aware designs, and robust observability to support rapid engineering progress.