Senior Cloud Architect

Effectual

Senior Cloud Architect leading enterprise cloud architecture engagements for Effectual. Responsible for technical leadership and mentoring on strategies, standards, and modernization initiatives.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSChefCloudJavaNode.jsPuppetPythonSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Effectual Senior Cloud Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects.
Partner with Engagement Managers (EMs) to deliver an exceptional customer and delivery team experience.
Expected to demonstrate Effectual’s experience and expertise through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers.
Define architecture strategy, govern technical standards, and mentor both client teams and internal architects across modernization, resilience, security, and optimization initiatives.
Define enterprise target-state cloud architecture and phased roadmap strategies.
Lead architecture review boards and executive design discussions with client leadership.
Establish reusable architecture standards, guardrails, and delivery patterns across programs.
Architect scalable, highly available AWS solutions using Well-Architected Framework principles.
Build multi-account landing zones, hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, Transit Gateway), and DR/BC architectures.
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
Create Python automation scripts and CI/CD pipelines.
Optimize cloud performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and security posture.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to client engineering teams.
Lead workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and incident response.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure challenges and create comprehensive documentation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of continual, prior experience working as a Solution Architect, including in parallel:
6+ years architecting and building AWS infrastructure
2+ years of infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred)
2+ years of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite)
AWS experience within the past year, with knowledge of primary AWS services (Compute, Storage, Networking, RDS)
Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical/architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
Experience leading highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
Experience managing data center or cloud operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
Proficient in at least one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node)
Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
Ability to work with multiple clients in parallel, with strong attention to detail
Exceptional communication and time management skills
Ability to work EST with flexibility for different time zones.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision health insurances
Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurances
401k with company match
Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformCloudFormationPythonDevOpsCI/CDAWS servicesconfiguration managementAgile

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcommunicationtime managementmentorshipstrategic thinkingattention to detailfacilitationproblem-solvingcollaborationcustomer experience