Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Architecture Engineer - Vice President to join our team. As a strong cloud architect, you will excel at both big-picture thinking and hands-on technical work. You will work on projects building or improving our core compute, core network, and edge infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, and web infrastructure skillsets. Your role will involve helping the iCapital platform scale with an automation-first mentality.
Responsibilities:
- Design and continually improve Kubernetes architecture, also helping operationally manage cluster lifecycle.
- Work on projects integrating new self-hosted and SaaS services, in some cases understanding and working with developers to help design software architecture.
- Manage Transit Gateway, Network Firewall, and external connectivity. Own architectural guidance for edge and traffic management, including CDN, DNS, and TLS strategies.
- Produce and maintain reference architectures, design documents, and architectural guardrails.
- Partner with engineering, security, and product teams to ensure platform standards are practical, well understood, and broadly adopted.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in platform, cloud, or infrastructure engineering roles, with demonstrated architectural responsibility.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
- Deep understanding of AWS infrastructure, including networking, security primitives, and managed services.
- Strong understanding of ingress/egress, TGW design, and private connectivity.
- Comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor with influence across multiple teams as a leader.
- Very strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in Kong or other API Gateways at a deep level.
- Experience directly managing Akamai in a production environment.
- Strong understanding of application design principles.
- Some experience with EKS standards such as Bottlerocket, Karpenter, Auto-mode.
- A software engineering background is helpful, and some experience with Python expected.
- Certifications (AWS / Kubernetes) are a plus but not required.
Benefits: The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $190,000 depending on level. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer-matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer-paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).