Senior Cloud Strategy & Innovation Engineer

ITSMF; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to drive cloud strategy and modernization across platforms. You will lead architecture discussions, promote best practices, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, automation, and the responsible use of emerging AI capabilities to improve cloud platforms and engineering workflows.

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, operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on performance, scalability and operability.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and promote best practices.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Software engineering

Leadership

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to drive cloud strategy and modernization across platforms. You will lead architecture discussions, promote best practices, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, automation, and the responsible use of emerging AI capabilities to improve cloud platforms and engineering workflows.