Cloud Engineering Architect

Position Overview

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• Job Type: Full-time
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We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Architect to design, build, and manage cloud solutions that align with business needs and industry best practices. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of AWS architecture, infrastructure automation, and cloud strategy development, ensuring high-performance, scalable, and secure cloud environments. This role requires strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will drive innovation and operational excellence across our cloud engineering practices, while managing and developing a team of talented engineers.

Accurate Background is a fast-growing organization, focused on providing employment background screenings and building trustful relationships with our clients. Accurate Background continues to exceed expectations by offering an array of innovative and cutting-edge background check and credentialing products to meet the needs of human resource, loss prevention, and security/legal professionals in employment screening and vendor certification. We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. If this sounds good to you, join our team!

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement strategic plans to enhance our cloud compute capabilities, aligning them with Accurate’s overall business strategy.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers. Foster a collaborative and innovative culture within your organization.
• Technical Oversight: Provide technical expertise and guidance on cloud computing architectures, systems design and performance optimization. Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of these platforms.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, program management and application support, to deliver exceptional customer experiences and deliver optimized solutions.
• Project Management: Manage complex projects, including major initiatives and product launches, ensuring timely delivery within budget constraints.
• Industry Trends: Stay up to date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in cloud computing. Protect our intellectual property and ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
• Management: Lead capacity planning, budget forecasting, and vendor/license management for cloud platforms. Establish clear KPIs, SLAs, and operational excellence metrics.
• Design and implement cloud architectures using AWS services, following the AWS Well Architected Framework.
• Oversee and implement AWS networking solutions, including ELBs, firewalls, and VPC configurations.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment and delivery of cloud solutions.
• Develop reusable architectural patterns to streamline solution delivery.
• Work closely with customers to understand their requirements and design tailored AWS solutions.
• Implement Agile methodologies to improve development and deployment processes.
• Support both Linux and Windows environments in cloud-based infrastructures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Cloud Engineering industry experience with 3+ years building and leading high-performing engineering teams with a focus on Cloud computing.
• Extensive experience with building and supporting Kubernetes clusters and containers.
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Expertise in software development lifecycle management, including development, staging, and production environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS storage management (EBS, S3) and cloud networking.
• Hands-on experience with AWS security and IAM configurations.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies and DevOps best practices.
• Proficiency in Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and escalate issues with AWS or third-party providers.
• DevOps experience, supporting ent