Architecture Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect Remote Job Winchester Kentucky USA,IT/Tech

Service status ·
A8 Core™
· The Operating System for Financial Accounts
· The account operating system
· API-first

Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect

The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, securing, automating, and scaling the cloud platform that powers A8 Core™.

Location Remote (United States) Reports to Chief Architect Team Architecture

The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, securing, automating, and scaling the cloud platform that powers A8 Core™.

This role owns the cloud foundation upon which every application, API, workflow, AI service, and customer experience depends.

You will define the future-state architecture for Azure, Kubernetes, Dev Sec Ops , platform engineering, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery while helping modernize a sophisticated financial infrastructure platform supporting highly regulated workloads.

What you’ll own

Network topology and segmentation
Platform governance
Container platform standards
Service mesh architecture

Dev Sec Ops

Infrastructure as Code
Git Ops
Security automation
Release governance

Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering practices
SLO and SLA frameworks
Disaster recovery
High availability
Operational resilience

Security Architecture

Zero Trust infrastructure
Secrets management
Identity infrastructure
Security observability

Responsibilities

Design and evolve the A8 Core™ cloud platform
Lead migration to cloud-native infrastructure
Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep
Define AKS platform standards
Build automated deployment pipelines
Improve reliability, resiliency, and scalability
Implement platform observability standards
Partner with Security and Engineering teams
Reduce operational complexity and technical debt

Qualifications Required

12+ years of infrastructure engineering experience
5+ years of cloud architecture experience
Strong Terraform experience
Experience operating production financial systems
Deep understanding of networking and security
Experience implementing Dev Sec Ops practices

Preferred

Custody or banking platform experience
SRE leadership experience
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 experience

Technical environment

Cloud Containers Infrastructure Security Observability Your first year First 90 Days

Complete infrastructure assessment

First 6 Months

Improve platform observability

First 12 Months

Deliver cloud-native modernization objectives
Improve platform resiliency
Reduce operational risk

Why join A8 Core™

You will architect the cloud foundation for a next-generation financial infrastructure platform and help define how modern financial systems are built and operated.