Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Information

Job Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Location: Jersey City, United States

Skill Cluster: CIS-AWS Infra - DevOps

Primary Skill: DevOpsExperience: 15 years

Job Duration: 6 Months

Job Description

The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect leads the Infrastructure Optimization agenda. Working closely with the Infrastructure leadership team, this role architects and drives cost-reduction initiatives across portfolio teams.

• 10+ years of total IT experience, including 5+ years as a cloud/infrastructure architect or senior engineer, backed by the ability to influence and align multiple engineering teams and senior leadership on cross-portfolio initiatives.
• Define and drive the infrastructure optimization strategy and roadmap, partnering with Infrastructure leadership, portfolio teams, and Finance.
• Review EC2 utilization across portfolios and lead right-sizing recommendations and implementations.
• Define and enforce non-prod environment standards, including migrating/mandating EC2 workloads in non-prod to cost-efficient options (e.g., Spot, scheduled shutdown, ephemeral environments).
• Baseline EC2 usage and recommend AWS Savings Plans / Reserved Instance purchases to maximize coverage and minimize waste.
• Plan and coordinate EKS upgrades across teams to avoid EKS extended support charges.
• Build cost visibility, tagging, showback/chargeback, and dashboards to track spend, savings, and unit economics.
• Quantify the impact of right-sizing and optimization initiatives, and take ownership of implementations.
• Produce architecture standards, specifications, and automation (IaC) that embed cost-efficiency into the development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers and influence senior stakeholders on cost-aware architecture decisions.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS at enterprise scale, specifically EC2, EKS, VPC, EBS/S3, IAM, and Auto Scaling.
• Proven track record of reducing cloud spend through EC2 right-sizing, Savings Plans/Reserved Instances/Spot strategy, and non-prod environment optimization.
• Working knowledge of FinOps practices including tagging strategy, showback/chargeback, unit economics, budgets, and anomaly detection.
• Extensive Kubernetes/EKS experience including cluster lifecycle management, upgrade planning, node autoscaling (Karpenter/Cluster Autoscaler), and bin-packing/cost allocation.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation, along with CI/CD automation.

Pay: From $60.00 per hour

Expected hours: 42.0 per week

Work Location: On the road