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Cloud Architect – Infrastructure Specialist
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: São Paulo • 🇧🇷 Brazil
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDNSEC2Google Cloud PlatformKubernetesOpenShiftTerraformVMware
About the role
- Define criteria for using cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
- Design reference cloud architectures, covering layers such as VPC, load balancers, DNS, gateways, storage, security, and observability, in addition to application platforms (virtual machines, containers, managed services, or others).
- Design reference on-premises architectures, covering aspects such as virtualization, networking, storage, security, high availability, and integration with hybrid environments.
- Assess feasibility and create technical plans for migrating infrastructure to the cloud (7Rs) or repatriating to on-premises, ensuring technical, financial, and operational coherence.
- Develop technical cost-estimation rationales for new applications and projects in cloud or on-premises environments.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams on all architectural definitions and decisions, following an "architecture by design" model.
- Establish and evolve FinOps practices and tools, ensuring cost control and optimization in cloud and on-premises environments.
- Collaborate with solution architecture and development teams to ensure alignment of technical and operational standards.
- Promote governance, reliability (SRE), and DevOps practices and tools, ensuring automation, observability, and availability.
- Stay up to date on cloud, automation, and modern infrastructure trends, and disseminate knowledge within the team.
Requirements
- Proven experience in infrastructure architecture and cloud computing in enterprise and hybrid architectures.
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE).
- Experience with virtualization on AWS EC2, GCP Compute Engine, and VMware.
- Experience with reference application architectures for cloud and on-premises (from networking, load balancers, VPC, DNS, gateways, security, and observability to application platforms: containers, virtualization, and managed services).
- Experience with FinOps and cost-optimization practices in cloud and on-premises environments.
- Knowledge of DevOps and automation (CI/CD, IaC, pipelines, observability).
- Knowledge of Reliability/SRE principles, practices, and tools.
- Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Cloud Solutions Architect certification (Professional level) in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (required).
- Additional certifications are a plus: DevOps, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, FinOps Certified Practitioner.
- Advanced English.
Benefits
- Meal and/or food allowance
- Transportation allowance
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Private pension (retirement) plan
- Profit-sharing program (PPR)
- Pharmacy assistance
- Childcare assistance
- Flexible working hours
- V.tal benefits club
- Extended maternity leave (6 months)
- Extended paternity leave (20 days)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud computinginfrastructure architecturecontainersorchestrationvirtualizationcost estimationDevOpsautomationFinOpsSRE
Soft skills
collaborationgovernancereliabilityknowledge dissemination
Certifications
Cloud Solutions ArchitectDevOpsHashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateFinOps Certified Practitioner
