Senior Cloud Architect – Platforms Engineering

The role

You will be the technical owner of core cloud infrastructure and network topology on AWS. You will build and scale foundational systems to empower software engineering teams to deploy applications.

What you will do

• Own, evolve, and scale AWS multi-account cloud architecture
• Architect and manage complex enterprise networking topologies
• Drive standardization and automation of infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and AWS CDK
• Collaborate with SRE to implement monitoring, logging, and tracing
• Act as an internal consultant for product engineering teams

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IT
• 4+ years specializing in cloud architecture and infrastructure engineering within AWS
• Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect) and hybrid cloud connectivity
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Solid understanding of container technologies and orchestration platforms, specifically Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
• Demonstrated experience designing secure cloud environments adhering to the Principle of Least Privilege and Zero Trust principles
• Experience implementing cloud cost-management frameworks, reserved instance/savings plan strategies, and granular resource tagging policies

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming or scripting language (Python, Bash, etc.)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Before you apply

• For U.S. Roles: applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)
• For U.K. Roles: requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks and eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC)
• For Canada Roles: must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar, Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system.