Cloud Architect (AWS)
United States
R&D – Engineering /
Full Time /
Remote
The Role
We are looking for an experienced and driven Cloud Architect to be hands-on and lead a fast-growing A-player team with deep experience and a passion for innovation. You will be augmenting our current infrastructure automation to use IaC concepts, improving and expanding our CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust and timely delivery of application and infrastructure changes, and contributing to the evolution of our platform as we scale. Join us in building and shaping a Cloud Architecture & Operations team as we build products and technology to transform our customers.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage RevolutionParts’ cloud infrastructure automation
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for all RevolutionParts platform applications and infrastructure changes
- Manage RevolutionParts’ platform observability and work with other teams to ensure we have visibility into its operation
- Contribute to the architectural evolution of the RevolutionParts’ platform cloud stack as we scale
- Apply industry security best practices to ensure that RevolutionParts’ platform is secure
- Become the expert in RevolutionParts’ system architecture, and be able to concisely communicate with others about it
- Recruit, mentor, challenge, and reward high-performing engineers
- Work in an agile, small team environment focusing on speed and quality
- Be a trusted partner for senior management to determine the best solutions, help drive alignment and implement decisions throughout your team
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience working on, and managing production cloud infrastructure at scale
- 2+ years of experience leading teams as Cloud Architect
- Experience with designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines to deploy both services and infrastructure changes
- Experience implementing monitoring for production infrastructure
- Familiarity with common web platform architectures including API design, database management, etc
- Experience with IaC platforms such as Terraform
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar
- Hands-on experience with EKS, ECS, S3, CodeBuild, CloudWatch
- Hands-on experience with deploying AWS managed services including RDS, SQS, CloudFront at scale
- Implementation and management of CDN & WAF Solutions like Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront or similar
- Understanding of high availability and scalability techniques at the app, API, and data tiers
- Familiarity with information security requirements, standards, and best practices
- Experience with Agile projects and development including Agile tools such as JIRA.
- Experience migrating manually managed distributed systems in AWS to an IaC platform is a plus
- Experience with leading or participating in certification processes such as ISO27001, SOC2 Type II is a big plus
- Experience leading a team of Cloud engineers
- Smart, quick learner, proactive, comfortable working with unknowns and dynamically evolving requirements
- Proven ability to hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team to success
- Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results
- Strong communication skills
- We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better
- Experience leading and working with remote teams
- Authorization to work in the US now and in the future
$180,000 - $195,000 a year
