Senior Staff Cloud Architect: Cloud Strategy & Innovation

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

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to lead cloud strategy and innovation. The role focuses on scalable, secure cloud infrastructure, landing zones, and platform management, partnering with senior leaders to execute strategy.

You will drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and contribute to API standards, while mentoring engineers and shaping platform direction.

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.
• Preferred: Master’s degree in CS or Software Engineering.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, and policy-as-code tools.

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.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements.
• Mentor engineers and elevate team capabilities.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and strategic technical programs.
• Adopt emerging AI and automation to improve cloud scalability and reliability.

Skills

Cloud engineering experience

Software engineering

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure/OCI)

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Serverless

AI/automation capabilities

Architectural leadership

Engineering OKRs

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related

Master’s Degree in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Crossplane

OPA (Policy-as-Code)

Kubernetes

Serverless architectures

CI/CD orchestration

Job description

Capital One seeks a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to lead cloud strategy and innovation. The role focuses on scalable, secure cloud infrastructure, landing zones, and platform management, partnering with senior leaders to execute strategy.

You will drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and contribute to API standards, while mentoring engineers and shaping platform direction.