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They partner with engineering, security, and product teams to shape cloud strategy, reference architectures, and implementation of roadmaps.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nCloud & Platform Architecture Main\nArchitect and oversee implementation of shared platform capabilities (landing zones, PaaS services, internal developer platforms, golden paths).\nReview solution designs and pull requests for architectural alignment, technical risk, and adherence to standards.\nStay current on cloud provider roadmaps and emerging technologies, evaluating their fit and proposing adoption where it is beneficial.\nSecurity, Governance & Cost Optimization\nCollaborate with security teams to embed security-by-design (identity, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, compliance controls) into cloud and platform architectures.\nContribute to cloud governance, cost management, and optimization practices (tagging standards, right sizing, reserved instances, FinOps).\nData & Integration Architecture\nPartner with data and integration teams to design data platforms (warehouses/lakes, streaming, ETL/ELT) and integration patterns (APIs, events, messaging) on the cloud.\nDefine and govern data architecture standards across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability across domains.\nPartner with enterprise and solution architects to establish canonical data models, data contracts, and metadata management frameworks aligned to business capabilities.\nDesign data movement, lineage, and governance patterns supporting both analytical and operational workloads.\nModernization, Observability & Technical Leadership\nLead or support migration and modernization initiatives from on-prem to cloud (rehost, re-platform, refactor) including assessment, roadmaps, and solution designs.\nDefine observability strategy (logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs) and resilience patterns (auto scaling, failover, DR, backup/restore).\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, SREs, and developers; evangelize best practices in cloud native and platform engineering.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\n8–12+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps, including 3–5+ years in cloud architecture.\nDeep hands-on expertise with AWS or Azure and strong knowledge of core cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM, security).\nExperience designing and building cloud ‑ native and distributed systems (microservices, containers, serverless).\nProven ability to architect and operate containerized workloads with appropriate networking, security, and observability.\nAdvanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi ) and CI/CD automation.\nStrong understanding of API design, event-driven architecture, and cloud integration patterns.\nKnowledge of modern data platforms (Databricks, data lakes/warehouses, streaming, ETL/ELT) and data modeling.\nStrong grasp of cloud security, compliance, and risk management (least privilege, zero trust, encryption, regulatory requirements).\nExcellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.\nSelf-driven, collaborative, and experienced in mentoring and promoting engineering best practices.\nPREFERRED REQUIREMENTS\n\nExperience designing internal developer platforms or platform engineering offerings (self-service environments, golden paths, platform APIs).\nBackground in SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, incident management) and building highly available, resilient systems.\nCertifications from major cloud providers (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect).\nExperience in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures and connectivity with on-premise environments.","company":"Vas","rawCompany":"vas","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-14T12:32:26.673Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Cloud Software and Solutions Architect","description":"The Cloud Software and Platform Architect is responsible for defining and leading the end-to-end architecture of cloud hosted applications and the underlying platform, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and cost efficiency. 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