Egen · 1 day ago
Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expEgen is a fast-growing company with a data-first mindset, seeking a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect to act as a trusted technical advisor and define cloud adoption strategies. The role involves overseeing cloud governance, architecting large-scale solutions, and mentoring engineering teams while driving continuous improvement in cloud architecture.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Consulting
Responsibilities
Act as a trusted technical advisor to the teams, customer executives, and technical leadership, translating complex technical roadmaps into clear business value and risk assessments
Define the multi-year, enterprise-wide strategy for cloud adoption, migration, and modernization, with a strong focus on GCP services and strategic interoperability with the second cloud platform (Pref AWS)
Establish and enforce global cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference models, and reusable patterns for deployment, security, and operations across all environments
Drive advanced DevOps practices and accountability models
Oversee cloud cost optimization initiatives, and establish technical guardrails to ensure maximum ROI across the multi-cloud footprint
Architect and lead the implementation of complex, large-scale solutions on GCP, with hands-on experience in leveraging services like GKE, Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Cloud Spanner
Design and govern the integration patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud systems, focusing on low-latency, secure connectivity, and consistent Identity and Access Management (IAM) across platforms (e.g., using federated identity or centralized key management)
Define the DevSecOps and cloud security posture, ensuring that designs meet stringent regulatory (e.g., data residency) and global compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)
Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies like Generative AI (e.g., Google Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock), serverless computing, and define their eventual architecture and integration into the enterprise landscape
Architect a comprehensive visibility strategy to monitor system health and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks across complex cloud environments
Design automated governance guardrails that ensure every deployment is secure, compliant, and cost-optimized by default
Mentor, coach, and grow a group of Senior/Lead Cloud Engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning
Own and drive continuous improvement of the cloud architecture delivery pipeline, promoting GitOps and end-to-end automation across the development lifecycle
Collaborate with the Data & AI Team and Engineering Leads to ensure architectural decisions align with product roadmaps and business domain goals
Elevate the organization’s technical brand by authoring engineering blogs and whitepapers, and representing the company as a speaker at industry conferences and meetups
Qualification
Required
At least 5-10 years in Cloud Architecture leadership roles managing enterprise-scale transformations
GCP as a primary platform: Mastery of GCP services, networking, and security
Deep architectural experience in AWS (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS) or Azure
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (including multi-cloud modules)
At least one programming language (Java/Python)
Preferred
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Professional/Expert-level certification from the secondary cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional)
Company
Egen
Egen is a technology services company with leading capabilities in cloud, data engineering, analytics, AI, and platform engineering.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Raghu Potini
Founder and CEO
Nandita Tiwari
Co-Founder
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