Solutions Architect (Cloud)

Crossing Hurdles; United States; On-site; USD 83,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Senior Technical Architect for a remote, contract role. You will design and lead cloud infrastructure tasks across distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability, with ownership of a production platform.

The position offers 10-40 hours per week. You will build containerized environments, define measurable requirements, and develop deterministic tests for integration, load, security, and recovery.

Qualifications

• Senior-level architecture and ownership of a production platform.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage.
• Experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with observability, SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, 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

Senior Architecture

Cloud Infrastructure

Distributed Systems

DevOps/SRE

Security

Tools

IAM

Private Networking

Observability

SLOs

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.
  

Position: Senior Technical Architect
Type: Contract
Compensation: $60 - $130/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week

Role 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.
  

Requirements

• Senior-level technical architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE experience, including personal ownership of a production platform.
• 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.