Private Cloud Architect

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REMOTE / $200000 - $225000 annum

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$200000 - $225000

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REMOTE

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Private Cloud Architect

Location: Dallas, TX

Work Arrangement: 5 days onsite

Compensation: $225,000 base + performance bonuses + equity

Relocation: Relocation assistance may be available

About the Opportunity

Our client is a large enterprice with a large-scale, highly complex technology environment. As the organization continues to expand its infrastructure capabilities, they are looking for a Private Cloud Architect to help design and evolve their private cloud platform.

This is a hands-on architecture role focused on private cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, and platform engineering. The ideal candidate is someone who can operate comfortably at both the architecture and engineering levels and is willing to get into the technical details.

This is not a traditional public cloud architecture role. While experience integrating private infrastructure with AWS, Azure, or GCP is valuable, the primary focus is on private cloud and data center infrastructure.

What You'll Do

  • Architect and evolve private cloud platforms across large-scale data center environments
  • Design and implement highly automated infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
  • Build and support Kubernetes-based platforms and container infrastructure
  • Connect and integrate existing compute, storage, and networking infrastructure
  • Develop scalable platform solutions supporting enterprise workloads
  • Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and networking teams to implement architectural solutions
  • Design solutions that integrate on-premises infrastructure with public cloud environments
  • Establish reliable, repeatable automation across infrastructure and platform components
  • Apply security principles directly within infrastructure and platform architecture
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership while contributing directly to implementation

Technical Requirements

Must Have:

  • 8+ years of relevant infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience
  • Strong private cloud and data center infrastructure experience
  • Deep Kubernetes experience, including Kubernetes as Code
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or similar technologies
  • Experience with Kafka and Spark
  • Experience with enterprise container platforms such as OpenShift or SUSE Rancher
  • Strong platform engineering and/or SRE background
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure automation
  • Experience with enterprise networking and infrastructure architecture
  • Experience integrating on-premises/private cloud environments with AWS, Azure, or GCP

Networking experience should include areas such as:

  • L2/L3 networking
  • EVPN/VXLAN
  • Software-defined networking
  • Load balancing

Nice to Have

  • HPC infrastructure experience
  • GPU infrastructure experience
  • Experience designing infrastructure for large-scale data or compute workloads
  • Experience within large financial services, technology, manufacturing, or other enterprise environments

The Right Background

We're particularly interested in candidates who have worked in large-scale, technically sophisticated environments where private infrastructure, automation, Kubernetes, and platform engineering are core to the technology organization.

Strong backgrounds may include experience with major financial institutions, large technology companies, or other Fortune 500/200 organizations operating complex private cloud and data center environments.

What This Role Is Not

This opportunity is not a fit for someone whose experience is primarily:

  • Public cloud architecture without significant private cloud or data center experience
  • Cloud strategy, governance, or policy without hands-on technical depth
  • High-level architecture without meaningful engineering experience
  • Public cloud services with limited infrastructure or platform engineering experience

We're looking for someone who can architect it, build it, automate it, and understand what's happening underneath the platform.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a major enterprise organization at a significant point in its infrastructure evolution. You'll have the opportunity to influence private cloud architecture at scale while working directly with complex infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, networking, and platform engineering technologies.

If you're a hands-on architect who enjoys solving difficult infrastructure problems and building highly automated private cloud platforms, we'd like to hear from you.

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