IT Architect - Cloud Platform

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and optimize enterprise SaaS and PaaS platform architectures, automation solutions, and deployment frameworks to improve scalability, availability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Lead the evaluation, design, and implementation of cloud platform solutions, providing architectural recommendations that address business, operational, and technical requirements.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for cloud platform technologies, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and consultation to project teams, engineers, and stakeholders.
- Design and maintain platform infrastructure, disaster recovery capabilities, and high-availability solutions to support reliable and resilient service delivery.
- Analyze complex technical issues, perform root cause investigations, and develop innovative solutions to improve platform performance, reliability, and manageability.
- Evaluate and recommend new cloud services, platform technologies, and software integrations, including proof-of-concept efforts and adoption recommendations for emerging capabilities.
- Collaborate with engineering, security, operations, and application teams to promote cloud architecture standards, automation best practices, and operational procedures.
- Lead the development and enhancement of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code solutions, automated testing frameworks, and deployment processes to support efficient software delivery and platform operations.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture (AWS):

- Define enterprise AWS architecture patterns for multi account, secure, and scalable environments.

-Govern infrastructure design across compute, storage, networking, IAM, and data services.

- Set standards for resilience (HA/DR), cost optimization, and security posture.

- Provide architectural oversight for RDS, OpenSearch, messaging, and distributed systems.

Cloud Native & Kubernetes Strategy:

- Define and evolve Kubernetes platform strategy (EKS) across environments.

- Establish standards for GitOps, Helm, multi cluster operations, and platform abstraction.

- Drive adoption of secure, scalable cloud native patterns.

- Ensure integration of runtime security, observability, and policy enforcement.

DevSecOps & Secure SDLC Leadership:

- Define and govern enterprise DevSecOps strategy, standards, and operating models.

- Architect secure CI/CD frameworks with built in quality, security, and compliance gates.

- Establish enterprise patterns for software supply chain security, including SCA, artifact governance, and policy enforcement.

- Standardize and oversee tooling across SonarQube, JFrog (Artifactory/Xray), Jenkins, and GitOps (Argo CD).

- Drive shift left security adoption and developer enablement.

- Align DevSecOps practices with security, risk, and compliance requirements.

Data & Integration Architecture:

- Define architecture for data platforms and ETL ecosystems (e.g...