Senior Director Cloud Architecture

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define the cloud and infrastructure architecture, including compute, storage, networking, and platform services.
• Design reference architectures and patterns for microservices, container platforms, Kubernetes, and serverless workloads.
• Partner with AI/data, application, and security teams to design infrastructure that supports high-scale data and AI systems.
• Lead cloud modernization, migration, and consolidation initiatives across regions and business units.
• Establish standards and best practices for reliability, observability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to implement robust identity, access, encryption, and network security controls.
• Evaluate and select cloud services, infrastructure tools, and vendors; manage technical relationships where required.
• Mentor infrastructure and platform engineers and support complex incident resolution and root-cause analysis.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering roles.
• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience with multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong background in Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and modern DevOps practices.
• Proven experience designing highly available, resilient, and secure production environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, observability, and performance optimization in cloud environments.
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect) are a plus.