What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Platform Architect position at KBX Logistics?
Your Job
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to define the vision and lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native solutions. This role blends strategic architecture leadership with hands-on engineering to enable software development on the KBX Platform across multiple product teams.
The ideal candidate will be fluent in AWS services, cloud-native patterns, and GenAI experimentation, with the ability to mentor cloud engineers and contribute directly to infrastructure and code.
Our Team
The Platform Architecture team designs and governs the foundational cloud and software platform that powers our logistics applications, enabling development teams to build, deploy, and scale solutions with speed, security, and confidence. We bridge business strategy and technical execution by creating composable, reusable, and well-architected capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce complexity. Our team thrives on collaboration, architectural discipline, and a spirit of principled entrepreneurship helping to drive innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
What You Will Do
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
Who We Are
KBX Logistics, a Koch company and global leader in transportation, offers world-class, technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. KBX is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges shippers face, leveraging decades of firsthand experience and data-driven insights from a large, diverse, and global business network. By building mutually beneficial partnerships and innovative technology, KBX creates a competitive advantage for its customers and meets the growing need for cost effective and reliable supply chain solutions. For more information on KBX, visit www.kbx.com .
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to define the vision and lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native solutions. This role blends strategic architecture leadership with hands-on engineering to enable software development on the KBX Platform across multiple product teams.
The ideal candidate will be fluent in AWS services, cloud-native patterns, and GenAI experimentation, with the ability to mentor cloud engineers and contribute directly to infrastructure and code.
Our Team
The Platform Architecture team designs and governs the foundational cloud and software platform that powers our logistics applications, enabling development teams to build, deploy, and scale solutions with speed, security, and confidence. We bridge business strategy and technical execution by creating composable, reusable, and well-architected capabilities that accelerate delivery and reduce complexity. Our team thrives on collaboration, architectural discipline, and a spirit of principled entrepreneurship helping to drive innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
What You Will Do
- Define target-state architectures using AWS-native services (e.g., MSK, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS).
- Establish reusable patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures for microservices, containers, serverless, and event-driven systems.
- Collaborate with product, security, and engineering leaders to shape cloud and AI adoption roadmaps.
- Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions within AWS and hybrid environments.
- Build infrastructure using IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
- Develop and optimize containerized workloads on EKS and serverless functions.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools like GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
- Deploy observability stacks (e.g., Datadog , CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry) with a focus on optimizing performance and cost.
- Design secure integrations with GenAI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, LangChain, vector databases).
- Automate development and operations using AI-powered tools (e.g., anomaly detection, code generation).
- Apply responsible AI practices around governance, compliance, and model evaluation.
- Mentor engineers and promote adoption of cloud-native and AI-driven practices.
- Lead design reviews, threat modeling, and code reviews.
- Partner with security teams to embed IAM, encryption, and data privacy best practices.
- Align cross-functional teams on cloud capabilities, delivery pipelines, and architectural decisions.
- Serve as a Cloud Champion and representative on the Cloud and Identity Customer Advisory Councils, influencing service roadmaps, assessing impacts of new capabilities, and ensuring alignment, communication, and coordination across KBX and other Koch companies.
- Experience designing and deploying cloud platforms in an enterprise environment
- Experience leveraging AWS services and cloud-native designs
- Experience architecting Kubernetes (EKS), containers, and serverless architectures
- Experience using IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation frameworks
- Experience using GenAI tools and frameworks (e.g., LangChain, RAG, Bedrock)
- Experience with CI/CD and observability in cloud environments
- Experience leading architecture discussions and executing technical solutions to support business stakeholders
- Experience with service mesh (e.g., Istio), event streaming (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis), and data pipelines
- Experience modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native and AI-augmented platforms
- Experience with responsible AI governance (e.g., bias, fairness, explainability)
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
Who We Are
KBX Logistics, a Koch company and global leader in transportation, offers world-class, technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. KBX is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges shippers face, leveraging decades of firsthand experience and data-driven insights from a large, diverse, and global business network. By building mutually beneficial partnerships and innovative technology, KBX creates a competitive advantage for its customers and meets the growing need for cost effective and reliable supply chain solutions. For more information on KBX, visit www.kbx.com .
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).
