Senior Cloud Architect


Job Details

Role Sr. Cloud Architect

Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite)

Secondary Location: Plano, TX (Onsite)

W2 only


This position requires someone who can work on our payroll as a W2 employee.

  • Senior Architect (Platform Architecture), Architecture and Cloud Platform Labs, Enterprise Cloud Platforms
  • Should Have experience in multiple cloud platforms like AWS Azure and GCP
  • Do not need AWS Admins, AWS Architects, or Azure Platform Engineers; we need a Cloud Architect here who can work on multiple native-cloud environments
  • Relocation candidates will NOT be considered.


Enterprise Cloud Platforms Team:

The Enterprise Cloud Platforms team in the CTO organization offers Private and Public Cloud platforms for *** s developers to drive faster time-to-market, innovation with private and public cloud capabilities, and reduce complexity with built-in integrations. We believe in a high-quality engineering culture to engineer our platforms with a customer and platform mindset, design for large enterprise scale and resilience, and accelerate market innovation into the technical platforms we deliver.

As part of this team, you will have a large impact on the evolution of next-generation Cloud services for *** and explore an extensive list of new technologies that will drive innovation across our company.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to join our Enterprise Cloud Platforms organization and play a pivotal role in developing and realizing the hybrid and multi-cloud strategy of the bank. We are looking for people who are passionate about cloud technologies, and about using them to solve interesting business problems for our customers. If you re collaborative, and technical, and enjoy working on big challenges, we think you ll enjoy working with us.


Position Summary:

Maintain thought leadership role in cloud technology, remaining up to date on offerings of various cloud service providers

Maintain overall product design documentation and oversight. Responsible for the overall architecture of Hybrid cloud platforms and components that comprise it

Provide expert-level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices

Be an active member of the Cloud Center of Excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platform engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance

Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap

Drive discussions in the architecture review board; develop platform architecture artifacts and influence architectural decisions

Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products

Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have security from the get-go model into Cloud platforms

Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate

Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders engineering, operations, developers, and leadership


Required Skills:

Experience in delivering large-scale distributed enterprise platforms with a focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability

Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform

Experience with on-premises Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud

Have deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments

Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)

Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container-native virtualization, network, etc.

Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring, and operations tools Splunk, Prometheus, etc.

Experience with containers-related technologies and CICD tools Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.

Experience in infra-automation tools and general programming languages Ansible, Java, Python, etc.


Must be expert level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others:

o Cloud IAM

o Cloud network and security design

o Cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management using tools such as Packer.

o Native cloud services (i.e., CosmosDB, BigTable, etc.)

o Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation

o Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation


Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt

Experience in Agile development practices and test-driven development

Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills





 The aes group

 05/24/2024

 Jersey City,NJ