Principal Cloud Platform Architect

Job Description:

Principal Cloud Platform Architect About Krateo Sky Krateo Sky is building the trusted Western champion in AI aerial robotics—a unified perception and actuation platform that will make the skies the world’s most trusted and transformative engine of productivity. We are not a drone company. We are the…

Krateo Sky is building the trusted Western champion in AI aerial robotics—a unified perception and actuation platform that will make the skies the world’s most trusted and transformative engine of productivity. We are not a drone company. We are the autonomy infrastructure powering robotic flight and aerial intervention across defense, industry, and public safety. We are executing a rapid roll-up strategy to consolidate best‑in‑class technologies, creating the first at‑scale, AI‑native alternative.

Speed and scale define our competitive advantage. We move fast by questioning assumptions, removing complexity, and rapidly demonstrating over analyzing. We scale by building certifiable platforms on reusable architectures. Our AI‑native, digitally connected ecosystem amplifies this advantage, automating tedious work so engineers focus on novel problem‑solving. We keep our back office small and our organization flat to maintain velocity and operate as one integrated team with real‑time visibility into trade‑offs, risks, and progress.

You’re joining at the beginning when your decisions define how we scale to Western leadership. We’re building a dream team of high performers to establish the processes, tools, and culture that enable rapid acquisition integration and platform scalability for missions that matter. No PowerPoint purgatory, no "that’s how aerospace does it" sacred cows. First principles, data‑driven decisions, hands‑on execution.

Architect, secure, and operate Krateo Sky's complete cloud infrastructure, data platform, customer‑facing product cloud, and centralized SRE operations across Azure Commercial and Azure Government. Your mission is to build the segregated dual‑use "red/green" cloud backbone that powers our next‑generation AI perception and actuation platform while maintaining clear boundaries between commercial and government environments. This cloud architecture will ingest high‑volume flight telemetry, drive scale‑out MLOps pipelines and large data lake operations, support our agentic AI operating systems, enable fleet and device management at scale, and connect the end‑to‑end flight chain across drones, ground control stations, operator workflows, and cloud services with secure, high‑throughput, low‑latency data paths.

Senior hands‑on IC role:
You will be hands‑on from day one. You must be comfortable doing the work yourself before you have a team to delegate to. We are looking for a builder who has shipped real systems—not Power Points, not just theoretical plans that never left the whiteboard. You think in systems but can get deep into the details when needed.

You are AI‑native in how you work—AI assistants are your default environment. You generate boilerplate, infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) configurations, automated deployment pipelines, synthetic load‑testing harnesses, and security compliance scripts, and documentation with LLMs, and you use AI for autonomous cloud debugging, log analysis, and system architecture optimization. You see AI as the reason a small, elite team can outperform a traditional organization three times its size.

Embody our values and behaviors—deliver precision and quality, challenge how things are done, break problems into fundamentals, automate relentlessly, hold yourself accountable, and deliver together no matter the obstacles. You must exhibit…