Senior Cloud Strategy & Innovation Architect

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to shape cloud strategy and modernization. You will drive landing zones, security, performance, and scalable architectures while mentoring engineers and partnering with enterprise stakeholders.

Role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, platform standardization, and advancing AI-enabled automation to improve cloud reliability and efficiency across critical systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• 9+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 6+ years of experience in cloud engineering.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and promote best practices and enhancements.
• Lead the adoption and responsible use of emerging AI and automation capabilities to improve cloud platforms and engineering workflows.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Software engineering

Distributed systems

CI/CD orchestration

Infrastructure-as-Code

Kubernetes

Strategic technology decisions

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

OPA

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to shape cloud strategy and modernization. You will drive landing zones, security, performance, and scalable architectures while mentoring engineers and partnering with enterprise stakeholders.

Role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, platform standardization, and advancing AI-enabled automation to improve cloud reliability and efficiency across critical systems.