Cloud Architect

Summary

Join Pulumi as a passionate Pulumi Cloud Architect and be a part of a team that empowers developers to program the cloud. As an early member of the Professional Services team, you will deliver high-quality, customized solutions to customers using Pulumi's technology. This customer-facing role involves collaborating with strategic customers to understand their infrastructure needs, design tailored solutions, and implement them effectively. You will act as a trusted advisor, leveraging Pulumi's IaC approach to help organizations streamline migration, automate provisioning, and enhance cloud security. This remote position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including unlimited PTO, parental leave, and professional development opportunities. The role requires significant experience in software development, cloud infrastructure, and specific technologies.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development for cloud infrastructure or related functions involving scoping, prioritizing and managing cloud architecture and engineering deliverables
• Strong proficiency software engineering fundamentals including clean and concise code, writing documentation, refactoring, test driven development. We deliver projects working in Python, TypeScript, Go, C#, and Java, so you should be comfortable with at least two of these and willing to learn others
• Deep familiarity with core web infrastructure, application modernization and software development best practices, Open Source technologies, cloud security, public and private cloud platforms
• Experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure with Pulumi, Terraform, Cloudformation and/or similar technologies
• Strong proficiency in Azure, AWS or GCP services including compute, networking, storage, and security
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster deployment, configuration, and management
• Experience with consulting and project delivery management
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong team collaboration skills, problem solving skills, and critical thinking

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate curiosity, creativity, acumen and technical excellence as the lead Pulumi technical resource in complex cloud engineering projects with one of Pulumi’s largest and most strategic customers
• Engage with a strategic customer to understand their infrastructure requirements and business objectives
• Design, architect, and implement Pulumi-based solutions that meet customers’ specific needs and industry best practices
• Learn and be responsible for deliverables and reference architectures spanning programming languages, infrastructure providers, and open source and commercial cloud services
• Act as a trusted advisor and an extension of some of the most sophisticated cloud and platform engineering teams in the world
• Be a Subject Matter Expert in a specific domain related to DevSecOps, cloud providers, development best practices and/or solutions architecture
• Provide timely, responsive and collaborative engagement with your assigned accounts; coordinating with distributed teams to accomplish asynchronous objectives and tasks
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to Pulumi implementations, AWS, Azure, or GCP services, and Kubernetes

Benefits

• Health (US Only) - We offer competitive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance. It is free for our direct employees to be on our insurance
• Time Off - Unlimited personal time off (PTO). We ask that employees take at least 3 weeks off during the year in addition to the 13 US holidays we recognize
• 401K (US Only) - With employer match
• Parental Leave - 20 weeks paid parental leave for the birthing parent or primary caregiver, and 16 for non-birthing parent or secondary caregiver
• Remote-First - We are a 100% remote-first company with employees in nearly 20 states, and growing internationally; we encourage asynchronous communication and autonomy. We also provide an annual work from anywhere fund to help cover the employee costs of working remotely
• Professional Development & Growth - We encourage a lifelong learning mindset and every employee is given an annual professional development budget
• Equity - As a small but growing startup, we all act like owners and you will earn equity in the company
• Additional Funds - We offer employees a monthly wellness fund to be spent on anything physical and/or mental wellbeing related. We also provide a quarterly happiness fund to be used toward anything that makes our employees happy!