Senior Cloud Architect

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry‑leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end‑to‑end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & Dev Ops, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our Fin Labs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile‑first applications and more.

Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 16,700+, and has 57 offices in 22 countries within key global markets.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to join our Enterprise Cloud Platforms organization and play a pivotal role in developing and realizing the hybrid and multi‑cloud strategy. We are looking for people who are passionate about cloud technologies, and about using them to solve interesting business problems for our customers. If you’re collaborative, technical, and enjoy working on big challenges, we think you’ll enjoy working with us.

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors. In accordance with law, the base salary for this role if filled within Chandler, AZ is $110k - $115k/year & benefits (see below).

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support application delivery and release management
• Build and manage infrastructure environments across development, test, and production
• Automate deployment, configuration, and operational processes using scripting and infrastructure‑as‑code tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve environment and production issues, ensuring minimal downtime
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to support continuous integration and continuous delivery initiatives
• Monitor applications and infrastructure using enterprise tools and proactively address performance issues
• Maintain documentation for deployment processes, environment configurations, and operational procedures
• Contribute to release activities, including branching, merge resolution, and code promotion across environments

• Experience in delivering large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability
• Experience in Dev Ops and Git Ops models with infrastructure‑code, config‑as‑code, policy‑as‑code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform
• Experience with on‑premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
• Have deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments
• Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS Cloud Formation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)
• Experience in container‑native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.
• Experience in cloud‑native logging, monitoring and management
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience in infra‑automation tools and general programming languages – Ansible, Java, Python, etc.
• Must be expert level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others:
• Cloud network and security design, Cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management using tools such as Packer.
• Cloud‑native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation, Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation.
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Cloud Formation, Salt.
• Experience in Agile development practices and test driven development.
• Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills.
• Hadoop / Kafka / KDB…