Staff Cloud Infrastructure Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Architect based in the United States.

This is a strategic architecture role responsible for shaping secure, resilient, and scalable cloud foundations in a high-growth, highly regulated healthcare environment. You will define enterprise cloud standards, reference architectures, modernization roadmaps, and infrastructure patterns across Azure and AWS. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with long-term architectural strategy, spanning networking, platform engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code, security, and cloud economics. You will help modernize critical workloads, improve infrastructure reliability and performance, and establish repeatable engineering practices. AI will be used as a force multiplier for automation, forecasting, engineering productivity, operational intelligence, and faster decision-making. Working closely with Security, Quality, Data, Application, Manufacturing, Finance, and technology teams, you will translate complex business needs into practical technical solutions. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide engineering standards while supporting compliant innovation and technology growth at scale.

Accountabilities: Define cloud architecture principles, target states, reference patterns, and modernization roadmaps across Azure and AWS, aligning technical decisions with business priorities, resilience, security, performance, and cost objectives.

Architect the migration of on-premises and data center workloads to cloud-native services, establishing repeatable patterns for landing zones, connectivity, identity, compute, storage, recovery, and other foundational capabilities.

Develop capacity, resilience, availability, and performance strategies using observability data and AI-driven forecasting to anticipate demand, optimize resources, and identify infrastructure risks before they impact operations.

Establish and govern Infrastructure-as-Code standards using Terraform, cloud-native tooling, modular patterns, automated testing, policy-as-code, and reusable deployment frameworks.

Build intelligent automation for provisioning, patching, configuration, monitoring, incident response, and other operational activities while maintaining approval controls, audit trails, rollback mechanisms, and appropriate human oversight.

Provide hands-on architectural leadership for complex initiatives, reviewing technical designs, resolving constraints, guiding major technology decisions, and raising engineering quality across teams.

Mentor engineers through technical guidance, structured feedback, forums, and reusable architectural standards while encouraging responsible and effective use of AI in engineering workflows.

Embed security, privacy, compliance, identity, encryption, segmentation, logging, vulnerability management, and recovery requirements into cloud architecture and operational practices.

Translate technical risks into clear business impacts, mitigation plans, ownership, and deadlines while maintaining architecture decisions, control evidence, exceptions, and remediation plans to support audit readiness.

Partner with application, data, security, manufacturing, quality, finance, technology, and vendor teams to establish clear requirements, decision rights, success measures, and practical cloud solutions.

Use AI-assisted analysis to improve scenario planning, requirements analysis, cost and performance modeling, documentation, threat analysis, and operational decision-making.

Continuously improve engineering processes, eliminate recurring operational work, increase infrastructure standardization, and identify opportunities to improve delivery speed, reliability, and technology economics.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of technical education and relevant professional experience.

10+ years of progressive infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, including significant ownership of architecture across Azure, AWS, enterprise networking, platform services, and large-scale modernization initiatives.

Expert-level knowledge of Azure and AWS architecture, networking, identity and access management, resilience, observability, disaster recovery, and cloud economics.

Demonstrated experience designing and implementing secure, resilient, automated cloud platforms in fast-paced environments with demanding governance, availability, auditability, and cost-management requirements.

Advanced proficiency with Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code lifecycle practices, CI/CD, policy-as-code, automated testing, cloud landing zones, and reusable infrastructure patterns.

Strong understanding of cloud security, risk management, compliance-by-design, audit evidence, and the ability to translate regulatory controls into scalable technical architecture.

Experience applying AI responsibly within engineering and operations workflows, including automation, code generation, analysis, forecasting, monitoring, or operational intelligence.

Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to simplify complex technical challenges and make sound decisions in ambiguous environments.

Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain complex architecture, risk, cost, and technology decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Proven ability to influence without direct authority, collaborate across functions, mentor engineers, and maintain execution momentum on complex initiatives.

A proactive, adaptable, and accountable approach, with strong attention to quality, continuous improvement, and measurable business outcomes.

Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Terraform certification are strongly preferred.

Azure Administrator, Azure AI Engineer, Kubernetes, AWS Solutions Architect, or ITIL certifications are also preferred.

Experience in highly regulated industries, healthcare, pharmaceutical environments, or other settings requiring rigorous compliance and audit readiness is advantageous.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

401(k) retirement plan with employer matching.

Paid time off to support rest, personal needs, and work-life balance.

Wellness-focused perks and programs.

Access to IV therapy and eligible compounded medications.

Opportunities to work in a mission-driven, technology-focused environment with meaningful impact on healthcare access and patient outcomes.

Opportunities for professional development, technical leadership, innovation, and career growth.

Exposure to large-scale cloud modernization, AI-enabled engineering, automation, and enterprise architecture initiatives.

Remote work opportunity within the United States.

A collaborative environment centered on people, quality, service, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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