Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Title: Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job ID: 5278
Location: 2 Research Drive, Greenville, SC 29607 United States
Work Type : Must be at least 2 days a week onsite (this is the current policy, and this is subject to change)
Start Date: February 1, 2026
End Date: December 31, 2026, with an annual review and extension process scheduled for next year.
Travel Required: 5% travel

The Cloud Infrastructure Architect scope of work:

• -Design, maintain and troubleshoot up Cloud infrastructure based on application architecture (e.g. setting up Containers, Kubernetes cluster, configuration, scalability and security aspects etc)

• -Understanding the cloud integration requirements and design the infrastructure needs to support them

• -Set-up dev, int and prod cloud environments (terraform based deployments)

• -Optimize cloud costs by recommending measures to reduce the cloud consumptions

• -Build CI/CD pipeline

• -Documentation

• -Release management: Review the releases during deployments and identify issues. Communication and collaboration with Cloud Engineers to fix the issues Day to day responsibilities:

• -Communicate with the secure authentication teams to understand the application requirements

• -Understand the interfaces and integrations requirements

• -Set-up the cloud infrastructure

• -Collaborate with our client infrastructure teams on firewalls and other network related aspects to integrate the cloud application with the Cloud or On prem interfaces

• -Build and run the CI/CD pipeline

• -Deploy new versions of the application to Cloud

• -Co-develop a plan to migrate an application from on-prem to cloud.
  
  Must have requirements: - The candidate should have experience working with cloud infrastructure technologies (VPC, EC2, Networking rules, Firewalls, cloud room sizing, optimization techniques)

• -Deployments using CI/CD pipeline

• -Terraform based deployments

• -Understanding of release management

• -Understanding of cloud integrations with other interfaces (cloud or on-prem)

• -Migration of an On Prem application to Cloud
  
  Nice to have skills: Programming language for application development in cloud (or on-prem). Application architecture and design for migration of an on prem application to cloud

Position Purpose/Scope: What are the key objectives of the position?
Develops leading edge cloud architectures and technologies to support our client and local DEVOPS Hubs Americas product teams. Identifies emerging technologies with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) in order to build cloud Infrastructure as Code solutions with availability reaching 99.999% uptime. All solutions will be properly secure and reliably engineered. Provides monitoring and logging of applications/infrastructure.

Position Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
List the major duties/accountabilities to achieve the positions key objectives.

• Develop and maintain Cloud architectures for our client product teams

• Create and develop Kubernetes architecture and tools for product teams and as platforms Evaluate and implement Kubernetes managed solutions from vendors (EKS, AKS) Develop cluster creation/maintenance scripts (Infrastructure as code, Terraform, etc..)

• Utilize version control of the Infrastructure as Code with strong understanding of branching and merging strategies (Bitbucket)

• Deploy CI/CD pipeline utilization (Jenkins) for the creation of clusters

• Enforce user management and role management (AWS, Azure) following Group standards Perform and create cluster monitoring and infrastructure health reporting (Prometheus, Grafana)

• Provide operational expertise to maintain Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure (technical and budgetary) Develop network controls (ingress/egress for internet/intranet access)

• Maintain cluster security (key management, Vault)

• Develop highly available, scalable clusters (scale out, scale up, multiple AZs)

• Support cloud based databases (CockRoach) and message queue solutions (RabbitMQ) Develop logging/monitoring solutions for applications and infrastructure (Splunk)

• As a Knowledge expert, share information and vision via documentation and training of others

• Interact with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and document architecture and approach

• Work on several development initiatives concurrently and provide subject matter expertise on implementations and product customization

• Define the visualization and realization of future technologies, which will support the complete process from development of concepts and vision to full production ready solutions, which can be integrated rapidly into the automotive environment

• Serve as internal consultant to developers and engineers as needed, providing assistance in all phases of product life-cycle development

Position Competencies:

Education:
BA/BS Degree in Business, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred or the equivalent of 4 years professional IT related experience. MS degree (preferred).

Experience:
5 years of technical experience in Information Technology to include 2 years of experience delivering Cloud Architectures (including deployments and operations)

Licenses and/or Certifications:
AWS/Azure cloud provider training/certifications (preferred)

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• 3-5 years experience: Cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, etc )

• 3-5 years experience: Solution architect

• 3-5 years experience: Operating systems administration and/or lead Developer in a microservice based product team

• 3-5 years experience: Developer of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML, shell scripts)

• 1-3 years experience: Database Administration; SAP Basis Administration;

• 3-5 years experience: Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker registries

• 3-5 years experience: At least one scripting language (Python, bash/korne shell, etc )

• 1-3 years experience: Agile team processes and work environments

• 1-3 years experience: Interface with REST Web Services and JSON/XML sufficient to support microservice developers

Primary Work Location/Shift:

ITRC, Greenville, SC 95% Travel 5%

About our Company
DataSoft Technologies is a highly recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US. Founded in 1994, DataSoft Technologies, Inc. provides staff augmentation services for Information Technology and Automotive Services. Our team member benefits include:

• Paid Holidays/Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Medical/Dental Insurance Group

• Accident/Critical Illness Insurance

• Life Insurance

• 401 (K)