Description

• The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect leads the Infrastructure Optimization agenda.
• This role works closely with the Infrastructure leadership team to architect and drive cost-reduction initiatives across portfolio teams.
• The candidate should have 10+ years of total IT experience.
• The candidate should have at least 5+ years of experience as a Cloud/Infrastructure Architect or Senior Engineer.
• The role requires 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 in partnership with Infrastructure leadership, portfolio teams, and Finance.
• Review EC2 utilization across portfolios and lead right-sizing recommendations and implementations.
• Define and enforce non-production environment standards.
• Drive the migration of non-production EC2 workloads to cost-efficient options such as Spot Instances, scheduled shutdowns, and ephemeral environments.
• Baseline EC2 usage and recommend AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances to maximize coverage and minimize waste.
• Plan and coordinate EKS upgrades across teams to avoid EKS extended support charges.
• Build cost visibility through tagging, showback/chargeback models, and dashboards that track spend, savings, and unit economics.
• Quantify the impact of right-sizing and optimization initiatives and take ownership of implementation efforts.
• Produce architecture standards, specifications, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation that embed cost-efficiency into the development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers and influence senior stakeholders on cost-aware architecture decisions.
• Possess deep hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, EKS, VPC, EBS, S3, IAM, and Auto Scaling.
• Demonstrate a proven track record of reducing cloud spend through EC2 right-sizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot strategies, and non-production environment optimization.
• Have working knowledge of FinOps practices including tagging strategies, showback/chargeback, unit economics, budgets, and anomaly detection.
• Possess extensive Kubernetes and EKS experience, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrade planning, node autoscaling using Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler, and cost allocation through bin-packing strategies

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree