Senior Cloud Architect
Somos, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the platform DevOps team; contribute to DevOps strategic plan and roadmap.
- Support and enhance our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to enable developer self-service and consistent delivery workflows.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to support consistent, reliable, and secure deployments.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to standardize environments and reduce manual effort.
- Build and maintain standardized templates / golden paths for service onboarding, CI/CD setup, and Kubernetes deployments.
- Own and enhance Kubernetes-based platform environments, improving scalability, stability, and operational readiness.
- Establish and maintain best practices for: deployment automation, environment consistency, observability (monitoring/logging/alerts), incident response readiness and reliability improvements.
- Partner with Engineering teams to improve developer experience, release processes, and system resiliency.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and cloud services; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Create and maintain strong technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks to improve repeatability and reduce operational risk.
- Evaluate tools and propose improvements to optimize pipeline performance, security, and maintainability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
- Strong hands-on expertise with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Codefresh, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Strong understanding of operational fundamentals: high availability, scaling, load balancing, reliability, and security best practices.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with an ability to quickly isolate and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.
- Strong communication skills and comfort coordinating work across cross-functional engineering teams.
Benefits
- 100% Company Paid Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family!
- 401(k) Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
- 100% Company Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
- 100% Company Paid Life Insurance
- Flexible Time Off program
- A Variety of Voluntary Benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevOpsSREPlatform EngineeringCloud InfrastructureCI/CDTerraformKubernetesDockerAWSAzure
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringtroubleshootingcommunicationcollaboration