Principal Cloud Architect
Kaleris
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Mexico
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About the role
- Define the long-term cloud vision, roadmap, and reference architectures across multi-cloud environments (AWS & Azure).
- Lead enterprise-wide cloud adoption and transformation strategies, setting and enforcing architecture standards, governance, and compliance policies.
- Act as the highest-level technical authority for designing and implementing secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud ecosystems.
- Solve the most unique and complex problems with a broad, cross-functional impact, often requiring significant departures from traditional approaches.
- Provide mastery-level expertise in core and advanced AWS and Azure services (e.g., EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VMs, Blob, VNet, Azure AD, SQL DB, Functions, AKS).
- Architect and optimize enterprise-grade Terraform and other IaC frameworks (CloudFormation, ARM templates) for scalable, secure infrastructure automation.
- Drive automation strategy, establishing new processes and technologies to enhance performance, reliability, and security for provisioning, config management (Ansible), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps).
- Drive multi-million dollar cost optimization initiatives by designing and implementing advanced cost-saving strategies, overseeing vendor negotiations, and managing cloud licensing models; lead capacity planning and performance optimization for critical, high-scale systems.
- Develop and enforce stringent cloud security and compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) at an organizational level.
- Provide expert guidance on IAM, network security, encryption, and audit processes.
- Architect and oversee the execution of enterprise-level Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) for the entire cloud footprint.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent expertise.
- 8+ years specifically designing, implementing, and managing multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure).
- Broad expertise or unique knowledge across complex, high-scale multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
- Expertise in strategic scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for platform-level automation.
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture modeling and governance.
- Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and large-scale Terraform codebase management.
- Proven track record of visionary leadership, strategic planning, and executive communication.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, drive consensus, and lead large, cross-functional technical programs.
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional (AWS SA Pro), AWS DevOps Professional, Azure Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
- Mastery in Containers (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS), Serverless (Lambda, Azure Functions), Cloud Databases (Aurora, Cosmos DB), and advanced cloud networking services.
- Deep, hands-on administrative and design expertise in Virtualization (VMware/vCenter lifecycle management, upgrades, and large-scale migration strategies) and diverse Operating Systems (Windows, RHEL, Linux).
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- Celebrate diversity and inclusive environment
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Hard skills
AWSAzureTerraformInfrastructure as CodePythonBashPowerShellDockerKubernetesVirtualization
Soft skills
leadershipstrategic planningexecutive communicationinfluenceconsensus buildingproblem solvingcross-functional collaborationgovernancecapacity planningperformance optimization
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect ProfessionalAWS DevOps ProfessionalAzure Architect ExpertAzure DevOps Engineer Expert