Cloud-Native Architect

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Cloud-Native Architect

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $130,000–$180,000 Annually (based on experience)
Experience

Required:


10+ Years

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Cloud-Native Architect with 10+ years of software engineering experience
, including extensive experience designing cloud-native platforms and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will lead the architecture and modernization of enterprise-scale applications using microservices, Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native technologies while driving engineering standards, platform strategy, and technical excellence across multiple teams.

• Define enterprise-wide microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and domain-driven design (DDD) principles.
• Lead the modernization of legacy monolithic applications into scalable, independently deployable cloud-native services.
• Design secure, resilient, and highly available distributed systems using REST APIs, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Establish API governance, schema management, versioning strategies, and service lifecycle best practices.
• Architect resilient systems using patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, graceful degradation, Saga, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Outbox.
• Define data ownership strategies, distributed transaction models, and scalable persistence architectures.
• Design and implement cloud-native platform capabilities, including Kubernetes, service mesh, API gateways, identity management, observability, and platform automation.
• Drive performance engineering, scalability planning, capacity management, and system reliability across mission-critical services.
• Establish CI/CD, Git Ops, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated testing, and deployment strategies for cloud-native applications.
• Define enterprise observability standards leveraging distributed tracing, centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, and SLO/SLI-based monitoring.
• Partner with security teams to implement Zero Trust architecture, secrets management, runtime security, compliance, and cloud governance.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and technology evaluations across multiple engineering organizations.
• Mentor architects, technical leads, and senior engineers while promoting cloud-native engineering best practices.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies and recommend strategic adoption based on business value and technical maturity.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  , including significant experience in software architecture and cloud-native solution design.
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), distributed systems, and enterprise integration patterns
  .
• Extensive hands‑on experience with Kubernetes
  , container orchestration, Docker, and cloud-native platforms.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Go, C#, or Python
  .
• Strong knowledge of API design, asynchronous messaging, event streaming technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure…