Senior Cloud Architect

Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, we combine deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic’s Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production.

Our capabilities span generative and agentic AI, cloud migration and modernization, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, managed services, security and compliance, and customer experience transformation. At Caylent, our people always come first.

We are a fully remote global company with employees in Canada, the United States and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!

The Mission

We are seeking a talented Senior Cloud Architect to join our growing Managed Service Provider (MSP) team. The right candidate is someone who ….

Your Assignment

Architecture and solutions

Lead client engagements

Provide thought leadership around scalable next-generation cloud architecture experience and operational guidance to clients

Lead cross-functional implementation teams to deliver world-class solutions to clients

Own the implementation of stories and other engineering of advanced cloud work for clients

Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in multiple frameworks and can break apart projects into independent components at an appropriate level, taking into account different aspects of a stack and know how to build stability and security into them.

Help clients get work done smarter with automation and code

Lead a team to navigate complex bureaucratic relationships to bring all stakeholders together around a common product vision and strategy

Lead re-platforming and refactoring efforts for existing systems

Lead Client discovery and the creation of a prioritized backlog for continuous improvement initiatives

Observability and Monitoring

Design, implement, and build scalable architectures leveraging AWS services with an emphasis on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

Build and maintain observability solutions using AWS native (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray, Config) and partner tools (e.g. Datadog, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry) for APM, infrastructure monitoring, logging, and tracing.

Work with a 24x7 response team and operations leadership group to help establish the precise collection of metrics, data and logs needed to properly monitor an application or workload

Within this observability framework help establish corresponding runbooks and automation that can be deployed when certain metrics and conditions (monitoring) are met

Work with the CloudOps teams in effort to reduce noise and address root causes of issues surfaced

Partner with DevOps and security teams to ensure the necessary resilience, security, and cost-optimization features are embedded in solutions

General

Learn, coach, and share knowledge and skills with other team members

Prepare work for team members of varying levels of experience, defining stories and task type work

Contribute to internal IP and open source development

Participate in delivery efforts using Agile or other work methodologies

Build relationships with vendors and partners

Engage with clients including presentations, technical decisions, and education opportunities

Learn, research, and stay up to date on best practices and evolutionary capability in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud

Be a technical team advocate, ensuring clear direction and efficient execution

Perform code reviews, provide feedback, and pair when beneficial

Keep an eye out for opportunities to support our clients in even greater ways

Write cool blog posts, do talks at community events, help us achieve additional certifications in the AWS Partner Community, help our clients solve all sorts of problems

Occasional travel may be required to meet stakeholders, kick off new projects, attend conferences, and attend company functions.

Other duties as assigned

Your Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field and 6 years of general IT experience (programming, hardware, software, etc); or 8+ years of general IT experience (programming, hardware, software, etc.)

4+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services

2+ year code-defined infrastructure experience

2+ Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) experience

Have worked with Agile Project Management or other project management work methodologies.

4 years experience with Cloud Native patterns with services like AWS Lambda

4 years experience architecting and building scalable, automated infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Associate and/or Professional Level Certification

2+ years of programming experience utilizing Python, Node.js, Typescript, GoLang, Java, C#, or other similar languages

Intermediate experience building scalable, automated infrastructure

Intermediate experience in large-scale enterprise IT environments

Intermediate experience working in a consultative, client-facing consulting role

Intermediate experience with Cloud Native patterns with services like AWS Lambda

Experience with and knowledge of AWS and application Observability concepts and methods Able to demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills

Demonstrated documentation and presentation skills

Competencies

Communication: The ability to effectively convey information, ideas, and instructions to individuals or groups, both verbally and in writing.

Time Management: The ability to effectively plan and organize one's own time in order to meet deadlines, prioritize tasks, and make the most efficient use of time.

Self Management: The ability to manage one's own emotions, thoughts, and behavior in different situations.

Building Work Relationships: The ability to establish and maintain positive and productive relationships with colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders.

Problem Analysis: The ability to identify, understand, and analyze problems in order to find solutions.

Persuasiveness: The ability to effectively present and argue one's own ideas and opinions, as well as influence others to adopt a certain viewpoint or take a specific action.

Technical expertise: The ability to understand, apply, and stay current with the knowledge, concepts, and practices in a specific field or industry.

Leadership: The ability to guide and inspire a team to achieve a common goal.

Planning: The ability to set goals, develop action plans, and effectively allocate resources in order to achieve desired outcomes.

Business development: The ability to identify and pursue new business opportunities, including the ability to generate leads, build relationships, and close deals.

Benefits

Pay in USD

100% remote work

Generous holidays and flexible PTO

Competitive phantom equity

Paid for exams and certifications

Peer bonus awards

State of the art laptop and tools

Equipment & Office Stipend

Individual professional development plan

Annual stipend for Learning and Development

Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture

NOTE: This position requires current legal authorization to work in the country where this position is located. Caylent is not able to sponsor visa or work permit applications at this time.

At Caylent, we are committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. As part of our recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools or automated systems to assist with the screening and evaluation of applications to help match candidate qualific