Cloud Architect
Colombia
Full Time
2 hours ago
No Sponsorship
Key skills
AWSCloudDockerKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScriptGoEKSAWS CDKIAMCI/CDCommunicationRemote WorkCloud SecurityZero Trust
About this role
Role Overview
- Design and evolve the organization’s cloud architecture, defining standards, patterns, and best practices
- Lead the transition from legacy environments to modern, cloud-based, service-oriented architectures
- Drive infrastructure, automation, and modernization initiatives
- Define and enforce cloud security, governance, and cost optimization practices (FinOps)
- Implement Infrastructure as Code strategies (Terraform, AWS CDK) and CI/CD pipelines
- Build and promote Platform Engineering capabilities to enable developer self-service
- Support strategic technology decisions (build vs. buy, tooling, architecture roadmap)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, SRE, QA, and business teams
- Ensure proper documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational scalability
- Mentor DevOps and cloud engineers, elevating technical standards and practices
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in technology, with strong focus on cloud architecture
- Deep expertise in AWS (Solutions Architect certification is a strong plus)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required) and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
- Experience with DevSecOps practices and cloud security (IAM, Zero Trust, secrets management)
- Proven ability to manage and optimize cloud costs (FinOps)
- Background in software development (Python, Go, or TypeScript preferred)
- Experience designing scalable, resilient solutions at organizational level
- Strong communication skills to engage both technical and business stakeholders
- Strategic mindset with a strong focus on business impact and decision-making
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Terraform
- TypeScript
- Go
Benefits
- An exciting growth journey and a never-ending ambition to develop as a company
- A friendly, supportive and humble working culture where the team always comes first
- Opportunities for professional development and personal growth
- Passionate, high-performing and genuine colleagues
- We care about the important things: results and well-being
- Referral Programm
- Refer a colleague program: Enjoy an amazing reward if you recommend a friend or colleague to GIGA IT and they get hired
- 15 business days PTO and flexibility programm
- Local Holidays
- Remote work
- You can work from anywhere!