Senior Cloud Architect at Caylent

Role overview

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Caylent is hiring a full-time Senior Cloud Architect for its Managed Service Provider team. This remote role is based in the United States and centers on leading client cloud architecture engagements, implementation teams, and modernization work. Caylent describes itself as an AI-first cloud services company and an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, with work spanning cloud and AI services.

You will guide clients on scalable AWS architecture, lead discovery and prioritize improvement backlogs, and oversee cloud implementations, including infrastructure as code, automation, re-platforming, and refactoring. The role also covers observability: building monitoring solutions, defining useful metrics and logs with 24x7 response and operations teams, and developing runbooks and automation to address issues and reduce operational noise.

The position involves coaching teammates, reviewing code, coordinating with client, CloudOps, DevOps, and security stakeholders, and contributing to internal IP, open source work, and AWS community activities. Occasional travel may be needed for stakeholder meetings, project launches, conferences, and company events. The stated base salary is $150,000–$170,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications; additional compensation may include bonuses, commissions, equity, or other incentives, varying by role and individual or company performance.

Benefits listed include medical coverage for you and eligible dependents; dental and vision insurance; term disability and life insurance; a 401(k) with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting; phantom equity; a company laptop; equipment and office stipend; flexible spending account; annual learning and development stipend; unlimited PTO after a 90-day probationary period; and 10 paid holidays. Applicants must already be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located; Caylent cannot sponsor visas or work permits.

Role at a glance: Remote, full-time Senior Cloud Architect role leading AWS client architecture, modernization, implementation, and observability work, with a stated base salary of $150,000–$170,000 per year.

Responsibilities mentioned in the listing

• Lead client engagements and provide architectural guidance on scalable cloud solutions and operations.
• Lead cross-functional implementation teams and own engineering work for advanced cloud projects.
• Write infrastructure as code in multiple frameworks, decompose projects into appropriate components, and build for stability and security.
• Use automation and code to improve client workflows; lead re-platforming and refactoring of existing systems.
• Conduct client discovery and create prioritized backlogs for continuous improvement.
• Design scalable AWS architectures with attention to reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability solutions using AWS services such as CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Config, and tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry.

Qualifications stated in the listing

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field and 6 years of general IT experience, or 8 or more years of general IT experience.
• At least 4 years of Amazon Web Services experience.
• At least 2 years of code-defined infrastructure experience.
• At least 2 years of Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) experience.
• Experience with Agile project management or other project management methods.
• At least 4 years of experience with cloud-native patterns, including services such as AWS Lambda.
• At least 4 years of experience architecting and building scalable, automated infrastructure.
• Preferred: AWS Associate and/or Professional-level certification.