Cloud/ DevOps Architect

Intuitive is an innovation-led engineering company delivering business outcomes for 100's of Enterprises globally. With the reputation of being a Tiger Team & a Trusted Partner of enterprise technology leaders, we help solve the most complex Digital Transformation challenges across following Intuitive Superpowers: Modernization & Migration Application & Database Modernization Cloud Native Engineering, Migration to Cloud, VMware Exit FinOps Data & AI/ML Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Application Security Data Security SDx & Digital Workspace (M365, G-suite) SDDC, SD-WAN, SDN, NetSec, Wireless/Mobility Email, Collaboration, Directory Services, Shared Files Services Intuitive Services: Professional and Advisory Services Elastic Engineering Services Managed Services Talent Acquisition & Platform Resell Services About the job: Title: Cloud/ DevOps Architect Start Date: Immediately # of Positions: 1 Position Type: Contract Location : Remote across USA This is a once-in-a-career role for engineers and architects who hunger to build, protect, and operationalize the backbone of modern finance . Join a compact, elite team entrusted with moving a mission-critical, large-scale platform to AWS —with zero disruption to millions of customers and billions in transactions. Why This Role Will Define Your Career Own a transformation that touches millions : Lead the technical migration of a flagship platform that processes billions in payments. Shape the future of financial infrastructure : Influence decisions that define how a major bank builds, scales, and secures the next decade of payments. Lead, mentor, and still build : Guide senior engineers, shape executive strategy, and roll up your sleeves as an individual contributor. Remote and reforge on-site collaboration : Deliver face-to-face customer and stakeholder sessions in select U.S. cities—energizing, high-value engagements that accelerate trust and results. On-site isn't a chore—it's where the breakthroughs happen. Build with bleeding-edge AI : Use ML models and AI agents for provisioning, resiliency, data hydration, system validation, and recovery. You'll define operational standards that others will follow. Mission Design and execute an end-to-end, zero-downtime migration of a large-scale ecosystem to AWS. Deliver absolute data integrity , relentless availability , and AI-driven automation across infrastructure, configuration, provisioning, and validation. Partner with engineering, compliance, and vendors to deliver a flawless customer transition —and a platform designed for the future of payments. Design scalable, secure, multi-region AWS infrastructure using VPC, EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53. Architect zero-downtime migration strategies with high-throughput, low-latency patterns and robust sandbox testing. Build automation tooling in GoLang , shaping repeatable, resilient infrastructure foundations. Data Migration & Hydration Lead the secure migration of transactional, customer, and metadata stores using AWS DMS, Glue, Snowflake, and Databricks. Design AI-enabled data hydration pipelines for schema inference, anomaly detection, reconciliation, and synthetic data generation with SageMaker, Bedrock, Anthropic Claude. Guarantee encrypted handling, reconciliation, and fully auditable hydration processes. Resiliency & Disaster Recovery Architect multi-region active-active strategies using Route 53 health checks, Multi-AZ RDS, S3 replication. Integrate best-of-breed tools like Zerto, Veeam, Rubrik, CloudEndure, Veritas for bulletproof recovery. Lead chaos-engineering programs and resilience rehearsals that prove recovery SLAs under real-world conditions. AI-Enabled Configuration, Provisioning & Management Automate provisioning with Terraform, GoLang, Pulumi, AWS Service Catalog . Deploy AI agents for drift detection, remediation, optimization, and predictive scaling. Establish policy-as-code guardrails with Sentinel and compliance automation. System Validation, Testing & Release Maturity Lead AI-assisted validation with AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Config, Inspector, Resilience Hub , plus chaos platforms like Gremlin. Build CI/CD maturity with automated regression, rollback, compliance gates, and continuous testing (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, TestRail, Postman, Tricentis Tosca). Drive production-readiness checks, reconciliation frameworks, and cutover runbooks that guarantee flawless execution. Security, Observability & Compliance Enablement Enforce least-privilege and secrets management with IAM, STS, Secrets Manager, KMS, Macie. Integrate AI-driven detection and response with GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Splunk. Architect observability at scale for end-to-end transaction visibility and rapid incident resolution. Skills & Experience Must-Have Proven success in large-scale migrations, data-hydration programs, or payments platform transformations . Hands-on with Golang, Python/Java, Terraform/Pulumi, CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks . Deep expertise in resilient architectures, automated validation, and chaos engineering . Nice-to-Have Experience with tokenization, secure enclaves, or payment internals . AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, Security, Machine Learning). Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent platforms. Equal Opportunity Employer #J-18808-Ljbffr