Engineer Lead, Cloud (5+ Years - Cloud Architecture - Microsoft Azure and/or AWS)

Location: US Anywhere (Remote), United States

Company

hirify.global develops technology that advances the global finance industry.

What you will do

• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable cloud infrastructure and solution architectures across Microsoft Azure and AWS.
• Lead technical planning for cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, and new cloud deployments, including infrastructure and dependency assessments.
• Develop hybrid cloud networking architectures covering virtual networks, VPCs, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing, private connectivity, and DNS.
• Define migration strategies covering dependencies, sequencing, connectivity, resiliency, rollback, and operational transition.
• Partner with customers and engineering, operations, networking, and security teams to translate requirements into technical designs and guide implementation.
• Promote security, governance, reliability, scalability, cost awareness, and architecture best practices while resolving complex integration issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with strong hands-on experience designing and supporting enterprise cloud environments.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS and the ability to work across both platforms.
• Strong knowledge of compute, storage, networking, identity, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience designing or delivering server, infrastructure, and application-environment migrations from on-premises environments to public cloud.
• Experience translating business and technical requirements into complete solution architectures and troubleshooting complex cloud and infrastructure integration issues.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills, including explaining architecture decisions and risks to customers, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Ability to work independently across multiple initiatives.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Firewall, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure Migrate, comparable AWS capabilities, SD-WAN, or BGP.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, cloud governance, identity, security, and landing-zone architectures.
• Experience in managed services, customer-facing technology organizations, or regulated and security-sensitive environments.
• Microsoft Azure or AWS architecture certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with opportunities to innovate in fintech.
• Tools and resources for personal and professional growth, including internal career opportunities.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Resources to invest in the community.
• For US positions, a conditional offer requires a drug test; reasonable accommodation requests are reviewed case by case.