Cloud Architect

Summary

Join the LastPass Platform Architect team and contribute to building and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud solutions. You will collaborate with global teams, design innovative solutions, and ensure alignment with business goals and industry best practices. This role involves leading complex modernization initiatives, documenting architectural visions, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in cloud technologies, particularly AWS, and have a strong understanding of security, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code. LastPass offers a remote-first culture, competitive compensation, flexible PTO, generous parental leave, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Proficiency in cloud technologies, specifically AWS, with a proven track record in designing and establishing enterprise-scale cloud landing zones
• Solid understanding of identity and access management, networking, and security in the cloud
• Experience in designing and delivering cloud-native systems on AWS
• Professional-level certification, along with any specialty certification for AWS
• Skilled in advanced containerization technologies, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and understanding a container’s journey into production, including all aspects of CI/CD
• Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure-as-code solutions, such as CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform
• Excellent communication skills (spoken, written, and presentation) to express ideas to both technical and business users, resolving conflicts between various parties
• A strong team player who offers help and regularly shares knowledge with colleagues
• Technical leadership and architectural experience in cloud infrastructure development and containerization efforts
• Solid understanding of scalability, high availability, and concurrency patterns in distributed systems
• Flexibility and creativity in solution design, including leveraging emerging technologies
• Ability to communicate and apply common architectural design patterns across a wide range of technical problems
• Familiarity and hands-on experience with object-oriented programming languages, along with a solid understanding of software development practices

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, high-performing, and cost-effective cloud solutions
• Lead complex initiatives to modernize the LastPass infrastructure within our evolving organization
• Design innovative solutions that balance business continuity with enhancing user experience
• Design, document, establish, and maintain the architectural vision and future goals for application containerization and our cloud presence
• Document and build consensus around cloud architecture principles, fostering support by collaborating with stakeholders and colleagues through constructive dialogue and healthy debate
• Help coordinate cloud infrastructure developments by reviewing deliverables early, producing recommendations, and providing guidelines and best practices
• Ensure architectural direction and governance are aligned with business goals, product strategy, and industry best practices
• Participate in solution work for new initiatives to outline high-level solutions
• Identify activities needed to address technical debt, as well as performance, scalability, availability, reliability, risk, and security
• Conceptualize and experiment with alternative architectural approaches
• Be an industry leader outside of LastPass by contributing to open-source projects and presenting at industry conferences
• Maintain a consultant mindset and mentoring skills to help others build their skills and knowledge, nurturing the next generation of technical leaders within LastPass

Preferred Qualifications

• Versatility in major cloud platforms beyond AWS, such as GCP and Azure
• Proven track record of establishing and managing an observability ecosystem for cloud-based systems
• Experience in developing cloud governance processes and/or involvement in establishing solid FinOps foundations
• Familiarity with declarative builds and deployment practices, along with tools like Nix

Benefits

• Remote first culture
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible Paid Time Off policies, including but not limited to: Quarterly Self-Care Days (4 extra paid days off annually) and Volunteer Days
• Generous Parental leave
• Comprehensive health coverage, dependents included
• Home office setup support
• LastPass families free account up to 5 members
• Continuous learning and development opportunities