Solutions Architect (Cloud) | Remote

Crossing Hurdles; United States; Remote; CAD 83,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to lead remote cloud infrastructure initiatives. You will own the design and execution of scalable, secure platforms, with a focus on distributed systems and dependable containerized environments.

The role emphasizes real-world tasks, measurable requirements, and rigorous testing across deployment, security, and disaster recovery. You will collaborate with engineers to debug, document decisions, and ensure production readiness.

Qualifications

• Senior-level technical architecture experience on production cloud platforms.
• Ownership of a production platform including access control and security.
• Experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access.
• Hands-on ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools.
• Experience with observability, SLOs, deployments and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud tasks across distributed systems, networking, security, and scalability.
• Build reproducible containerized environments with reference and defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements for infrastructure config, topology, and runtime.
• Develop deterministic tests for integration, load, security, and recovery.
• Debug environments and document decisions while reviewing peers' work.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

Distributed systems

DevOps / Platform engineering

SRE practices

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

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.