Senior Cloud Architect (Remote US)

Role Overview

The Senior Cloud Architect drives the cloud-centric architecture approach for Smile Digital Health’s managed services offering, while maintaining security best practices and improving operational efficiency. You will work cross-functionally with Solution/Software Architects, Security, Product Management, and Operations to design, implement, secure, deploy, and automate infrastructure services for SaaS solutions on Azure/AWS.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and manage a multi-tenant cloud strategy for managed services
• Create cloud reference architectures for multiple deployment topologies
• Define architectural guiding principles and standard specifications
• Assess, design, implement, automate, and document security solutions and processes to meet compliance requirements
• Partner with Security Operations to establish and implement Cloud security best practices
• Define and evolve baseline cloud, container, and application security standards
• Build cost/utilization tracking and attribution across cloud service providers
• Maintain documentation for cloud security systems and procedures
• Lead proof of concepts / proof of technology and evaluate best-of-breed technologies
• Produce detailed design and transition materials (conceptual/logical/physical design, BOM, as-built diagrams, KT materials, FAQs, and operational handover)
• Act as a subject matter expert from initiation through successful implementation
• Deliver C-level executive briefings on roadmap direction and technology fit
• Evangelize cloud strategy and best practices with senior management
• Provide multi-cloud thought leadership
• Collaborate with Operations to remove technical roadblocks and guide operational efficiency

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a Solutions Architect, including securing cloud solutions (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related IT field
• 5+ years experience identifying cloud security issues/risks and developing risk mitigation plans for audit/compliance
• Strong experience with hyperscalers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Solid understanding of interconnect/colo environments
• Strong application architecture background and ability to move/refactor applications to the cloud
• Ability to communicate architectures to both C-suite and deep technical audiences
• Deep understanding of cloud best practices

Nice-to-Haves

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