Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Description - Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect (260000CT)

Job Description

Description

Through our service brands Hyundai Motor Finance, Genesis Finance, and Kia Finance, Hyundai Capital America offers a wide range of financial products tailored to meet the needs of Hyundai, Genesis, and Kia customers and dealerships. We provide vehicle financing, leasing, subscription, and insurance solutions to over 3 million consumers and businesses. Embodying our commitment to grow, innovate, and diversify, we strive to reimagine the customer and dealer experience and launch innovative new products that broaden our market reach.

We believe that success comes from within and are proud to support our team members through skill development and career advancement. Hyundai Capital America is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our workforce. We are a values‑driven company dedicated to supporting both internal and external communities through volunteering, philanthropy, and the empowerment of our Employee Resource Groups.

Together, we strive to be the leader in financing freedom of movement.

• Medical, dental, and vision plans with no-cost and low-cost options
• Annual employer HSA contribution
• 401(k) matching and immediate vesting
• Vehicle purchase and lease discounts, plus monthly vehicle allowances by job level:
  • Associate / Sr. Associate: $350
  • Director: $800
  • Executive Director: $900
  • VP or Above: $1,000
• 100% employer-paid life and disability insurance
• No-cost health and wellbeing programs, including a gym benefit
• Six weeks of paid parental leave
• Paid Volunteer Time Off, plus a company donation to a charity of your choice

The Sr. Cloud Architect designs, builds, and governs scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role partners with engineering, security, and product teams to define target architectures, enable cloud‑native delivery, and ensure platforms meet availability, performance, compliance, and operational excellence standards.

• Lead end-to-end cloud architecture for new and existing workloads, including reference architectures, patterns, and technical standards.
• Architect highly available and resilient systems using services such as ELB/ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, and Cloud Front.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into solution designs, estimates, risks, and implementation roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and hands‑on guidance.
• Perform cost optimization and capacity planning (Fin Ops): tagging, budgets, Reserved Instances/Savings Plans, right‑sizing, and cost allocation reporting.
• Plan and execute migrations and modernization (re‑host, re‑platform, re‑factor) and data transfer approaches using AWS migration tooling.
• Define disaster recovery architectures including workload tiering, RTO/RPO alignment, and cross‑region failover patterns.

• Design secure landing zones and multi‑account strategies using AWS Organizations, SCPs, IAM, networking, logging, and guardrails.
• Define network and connectivity designs (VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, private connectivity, DNS) aligned to performance and security needs.
• Establish infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration standards using Terraform and/or AWS Cloud Formation; promote reusable modules and CI/CD automation.

• Lead development, implementation, and management of project‑based strategies to achieve HCA’s Digital Division goals.
• Compile and facilitate executive reporting and visibility on department and division initiatives and KPIs to ensure progress and alignment.
• Implement security best practices: least privilege IAM, KMS encryption, secrets management, WAF/Shield, vulnerability management, and security monitoring (e.g., Guard Duty, Security Hub).
• Own cloud governance and compliance alignment (e.g., ISO, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA as applicable), including evidence collection and control mapping.

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