Senior Cloud Architect

Summary

Join Caylent, a fully remote global cloud native services company, as a Senior Cloud Architect with Kubernetes expertise. You will work with a collaborative team to deliver AWS cloud solutions, focusing on Kubernetes and containerized environments. This role involves hands-on coding, architecture design, client engagement, and DevOps pipeline development. You will leverage your expertise to architect scalable and secure solutions, guide strategic cloud architecture decisions, and build enterprise technology solutions using Agile methodology. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and DevOps, along with strong communication and client management skills. Caylent offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience as an engineer
• Proven expertise with Kubernetes (K8s), including deployment, scaling, and management in production environments
• Consultancy or advisory experience is essential, including managing client relationships and acting as a trusted technical advisor
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, particularly EKS, Docker, and other container orchestration platforms
• Ability to communicate technical objectives and solutions clearly to clients while establishing and cultivating a professional relationship
• Strong knowledge of Serverless Frameworks, API Gateway, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, and Lambda
• Experience implementing IaC in AWS (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK)
• Advanced hands-on DevOps automation and scripting expertise, preferably with JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional
• Natural curiosity and excitement for learning new technology

Responsibilities

• Work daily on code and problem solve in code (not tickets): 65% hands-on, 35% architecture/R&D/meetings
• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment, leveraging your Kubernetes expertise to architect scalable, secure, and resilient solutions
• Lead client engagements, acting as a trusted advisor to guide strategic cloud architecture decisions and solve complex technical challenges
• Design, develop, and integrate complex DevOps pipelines, including build automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), security, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Build enterprise technology solutions in DevOps, Cloud ( containerized environments), API and Container Management, performance, and stability using Agile methodology
• Develop long-range plans with customers to adopt cloud-native and Kubernetes best practices
• Ensure high quality of project delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD) preferred
• Migrations, CICD, and IaC tools
• Cloud Security Best Practices
• Networking and incident, release, and change management processes
• Working in client-facing environments and on agile projects

Benefits

• The base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $170,000
• Benefits, bonuses, and incentives