Senior Technical Architect

Crossing Hurdles; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a high-caliber cloud infrastructure professional to design and validate scalable, secure, and reliable systems. The role emphasizes building containerized environments, defining measurable infrastructure requirements, and delivering deterministic tests across integration, load, security, and recovery scenarios.

Applicants should bring deep expertise in cloud platforms, distributed architectures, and SRE practices, with a track record of implementing robust automation

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and architecture for distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure handling.
• Proficient in IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with observability, SLOs, rolling deployments, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Skills

Technical architecture

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

DevOps practices

SRE

Systems engineering

Tools

IAM

Networking

Observability

Job description

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Requirements

• Have strong relevant experience in technical architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios.
• Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language.