Senior Technical Architect

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Assess cloud environments and define target architectures, modernization approaches, and implementation roadmaps.
• Design landing zones covering resource hierarchy, identity, networking, security, and shared services.
• Set governance standards for access, policies, resource organization, tagging, and cost management.
• Design hybrid connectivity, network segmentation, private access, DNS, and centralized traffic inspection.
• Define security baselines and modernization for identity, network security, and shared infrastructure.
• Build reusable Terraform provisioning frameworks and integrate them with CI/CD pipelines.
• Design high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and operational readiness; plan phased migrations, validation, and rollback.
• Lead client workshops and discovery; prepare architecture documents, proposals, estimates, and delivery plans.
• Guide implementation teams, review solutions, and mentor engineers.

Mandatory skills

• Hands-on expertise in Azure, AWS, or GCP and basic knowledge of a second cloud platform.
• Experience delivering enterprise cloud foundations and landing zones.
• Knowledge of resource hierarchy, IAM, identity federation, and policy-based governance.
• Cloud networking knowledge spanning routing, DNS, firewalls, private connectivity, and hybrid integration.
• Experience with encryption, secrets management, security baselines, and compliance controls.
• Terraform experience covering reusable modules, state management, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Understanding of DevSecOps, policy as code, infrastructure change controls, observability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cloud cost management.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Architecture documentation, stakeholder communication, and technical leadership skills.

Good to have

• Multi-region cloud deployments, enterprise network modernization, cloud security posture management, and centralized security monitoring.
• Kubernetes, managed container services, or OpenShift; experience in regulated enterprise environments; relevant cloud architecture or security certifications.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure requirements, secure model access, AI platform governance, data protection, usage monitoring, quotas, and inference costs.

About Iris Software

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