Description
The Principal Architect, Platform Infrastructure is a senior technical leader who guides the company's cloud and technology systems, ensuring they are secure, well-managed, and cost-effective.
Responsibilities:
Infrastructure and DevOps Architecture
- Set and maintain the vision for infrastructure and DevOps across platform engineering.
- Create standard patterns for cloud accounts, setup, environments, and tools.
- Ensure solutions follow company architecture and security rules and are easy for teams to use.
- Identify problems that are best solved once at the platform level instead of by each team.
AWS Migration and Cloud Account Governance
- Find and list on-premises and existing cloud workloads to decide what should move.
- Lead the AWS migration from start to finish, including account rules, lift-and-shift, and updating moved workloads.
- Find all AWS accounts across engineering and bring them into standard platform patterns.
- Set and enforce standards for new and existing accounts, including tagging, access, guardrails, and cost control.
- Work with the Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), AWS account teams, and finance/FinOps partners to use credit and incentive programs tied to migration results.
- Track and share progress, risks, and dependencies across applications and accounts.
Partnership with Platform Engineering and SRE
- Be the infrastructure and DevOps partner to platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) so all three groups work as one team.
- Ensure infrastructure and DevOps practices support developer needs, reliability, and resiliency.
- Align roadmaps so work like migration, tools, and standards happens in the right order without repeated effort.
Team and Technical Leadership
- Manage the DevOps and Infrastructure team, setting priorities, coaching team members, and connecting their work to the infrastructure and migration roadmap.
- Act as a senior technical expert, reviewing designs and guiding infrastructure and DevOps decisions across platform and application teams.
- Help solve hard infrastructure and cloud problems that cross teams.
- Work as a technical partner to senior engineering, architecture, and security leaders.
- Make decisions on your own within clear company guidelines.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of related experience
- Experience designing and leading cloud infrastructure, especially on AWS
- Experience leading cloud migrations, including lift-and-shift and modernization
- Strong knowledge of DevOps practices and tools
- Understanding of cloud account governance, including tagging, access controls, guardrails, and cost management
- Familiarity with platform engineering and site reliability practices
- Experience managing, coaching, and guiding a technical team
- Ability to influence senior leaders through expertise, teamwork, and credibility
- Ability to work with finance partners on cloud costs and incentive programs
- Strong skills in tracking and reporting progress, risks, and dependencies
- Clear written and verbal communication skills