Responsibilities
- Act as the design authority for multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Own the hardest architecture decisions and serve as the final escalation point for production-critical problems across engagements.
- Define the firm-wide standards, patterns, and reference architectures for landing zones, networking, identity, and workload platforms that every team builds on. Set account, subscription, and project structure, environment separation, and identity boundaries as defaults.
- Own the IaC standard for the practice. Build the reusable, modular Terraform and the module library that other engineers adopt by default, and govern state, versioning, and drift at scale.
- Set the standard for running Kubernetes in production (EKS, GKE, AKS), including networking, autoscaling, workload isolation, and day-2 operations. Own container registries and artifact promotion (ECR, ACR, Artifact Registry) and golden image pipelines (cloud-init, image bake) for consistent, hardened builds.
- Shape proposals and estimates, lead technical discovery, and represent the firm as the senior cloud voice in client and executive conversations.
- Build and harden CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation that move code to production safely and repeatably.
- Establish observability, SLOs, and incident response practices. Lead root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes rather than repeated firefighting.
- Define the cloud security and compliance posture: identity and least-privilege access, secrets management, network segmentation, encryption, and policy as code.
- Drive cost visibility and optimization (FinOps) across accounts, projects, and clouds.
- Raise the technical bar across the practice. Mentor and grow senior engineers, shape the hiring bar, and lead design reviews.
- Build the accelerators and reference implementations that cut delivery time and raise quality across every engagement.
Requirements
- Senior-most technical authority for designing, building, and operating infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure
- More than a decade of experience in production environments
- Hands-on infrastructure expertise
- Principal-level individual contributor with design authority
- Ownership of hardest architecture decisions and final technical escalation point
- Experience setting standards, patterns, and reference architectures for multi-cloud environments
- Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform), module library development, and state governance
- Experience with container platforms and Kubernetes in production (EKS, GKE, AKS)
- Proven ability to build and harden CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Established practices in observability, SLOs, and incident response
- Defined cloud security and compliance posture including identity, secrets management, network segmentation, encryption, and policy as code
- Experience driving cost visibility and optimization (FinOps)
- Demonstrated leadership and mentorship of senior engineers and design reviews
