Senior Cloud Architect (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Singapore; in-office collaboration is expected 10+ days per month

Company

hirify.global develops crypto and financial infrastructure solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers. The role supports the Treasury Reconciliation platform, which helps large financial institutions and enterprises reconcile transactions and close their books.

What you will do

• Own infrastructure architecture direction, scalability, performance, stability, security, and technology integration for the Reconciliation platform.
• Set infrastructure standards and reusable patterns that improve system quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior infrastructure engineers through design reviews, complex problem solving, and knowledge sharing.
• Prototype and build critical-path components, foundational code, and reference implementations while the team handles routine implementation and daily operations.
• Make and own infrastructure trade-off decisions involving long-term cost, scalability, and maintainability.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and owning large-scale distributed infrastructure, including personal ownership of architecture decisions, plus 3+ years as a technical lead mentoring engineers.
• At least 3 years of experience with AWS and Kubernetes, with deep expertise in both.
• Expertise in Linux and Windows server environments and strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and ArgoCD, plus scripting languages including Bash and Python.
• Experience with data infrastructure and processing technologies such as Spark and MSSQL.
• Experience building infrastructure for high-volume transactional workloads, ideally in the finance sector.
• Track record of building infrastructure that scales, remains available and secure, using Agile practices to ship reliably.
• This is an architecture-led technical leadership role, not a people-management position or a role primarily executing infrastructure designed by others.

Nice to have

• Cybersecurity experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced startup environment with experienced industry leaders and opportunities to work on a mission-critical financial platform.
• Professional development budget and access to a learning environment focused on current technologies.
• In-office collaboration for important moments, with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees attend.
• Full-time employees receive salary, bonuses, equity, healthcare, retirement, family support, wellness reimbursement, vacation, parental leave, and family-planning benefits.
• Additional benefits include R&R days, mobile phone stipend, catered lunches, stocked kitchens, and team events.