East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States Remote (Global) Employment USD 175,000 - 200,000 Yearly

Somos is hiring a Senior Cloud Architect

About the Role

Somos is hiring a Senior Cloud Architect to provide hands-on technical leadership for our DevOps and platform engineering initiatives. You will own the reliability, automation, and delivery foundations that enable engineering teams to ship faster and operate safely in a dynamic, high-performing environment focused on advancing telecommunications.

What You'll Do

  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the platform DevOps team; contribute to DevOps strategic plan and roadmap.
  • Support and enhance our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to enable developer self-service and consistent delivery workflows.
  • Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to support consistent, reliable, and secure deployments.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to standardize environments and reduce manual effort.
  • Build and maintain standardized templates / golden paths for service onboarding, CI/CD setup, and Kubernetes deployments.
  • Own and enhance Kubernetes-based platform environments, improving scalability, stability, and operational readiness.
  • Establish and maintain best practices for deployment automation, environment consistency, observability (monitoring/logging/alerts), and incident response readiness and reliability improvements.
  • Partner with Engineering teams to improve developer experience, release processes, and system resiliency.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and cloud services; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
  • Create and maintain strong technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks to improve repeatability and reduce operational risk.
  • Evaluate tools and propose improvements to optimize pipeline performance, security, and maintainability.

What We're Looking For

  • 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Codefresh, Jenkins, or equivalent.
  • Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern cloud-native deployment patterns.
  • Strong understanding of operational fundamentals: high availability, scaling, load balancing, reliability, and security best practices.
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills with an ability to quickly isolate and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort coordinating work across cross-functional engineering teams.

Nice to Have

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
  • Scripting knowledge in bash. Knowledge of Python or node.js.

Technical Stack

  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Codefresh, Jenkins
  • Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Scripting: bash, Python, node.js

Benefits & Compensation

  • Compensation Range: $175,000 - $200,000
  • 100% Company Paid Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family!
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
  • 100% Company Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • 100% Company Paid Life Insurance
  • Flexible Time Off program
  • A Variety of Voluntary Benefits

Work Mode

This is a global role.

Somos is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
AWSAzureGCPGitHub ActionsCodefreshJenkinsTerraformKubernetesDockerbashCI/CDCloud-NativeHigh AvailabilitySecurity
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Somos

Somos is an innovative technology company that ensures that phone calls and text messages can be trusted. The company develops stronger trusted digital identities to protect consumers from spam and fraud and ensure legitimate business calls are answered.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 14 days ago