Principal Cloud Architect (AWS)

Serv Recruitment Agency

1d•Remote

About The Position

Virtual Intros is building the intelligence layer for meaningful, privacy-first connection across people, companies, and communities, turning real-time engagement into measurable business value. Its architecture reflects this ambition, leveraging containerized microservices, Infrastructure as Code, multi-environment isolation, and distributed systems designed for high-concurrency, event-driven workloads and evolving AI-driven capabilities.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in cloud architecture with principal-level ownership on AWS.
Proven experience defining and owning target-state architecture for complex platforms.
Deep expertise across AWS core services including compute, networking, identity, data, and security.
Strong experience designing multi-tenant architectures and isolation strategies.
Proven ability to design resilient, highly available, multi-region systems.
Strong knowledge of cloud security, encryption, IAM, and data protection practices.
Experience establishing architectural governance and decision-making frameworks.
Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with near-term delivery needs.
Experience scaling platforms toward enterprise or regulated environments.
Background in high-growth environments transitioning to enterprise scale.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting AI-enabled or data-intensive platforms.
Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected frameworks and enterprise reference architectures.
Experience working with external partners while maintaining architectural governance.
Proactive and accountable.
Thinks strategically and executes consistently.
Communicates with clarity and confidence.
Brings a positive, growth-oriented mindset.
Highly organized and dependable.
Embraces learning and feedback.
Cares deeply about doing great work.

Responsibilities

Define and lead the evolution of the AWS platform into a secure, resilient, tenant-aware, and enterprise-ready foundation.
Set architectural direction, establish governance, and ensure the platform can scale to support both current enterprise needs and future AI-enabled capabilities.
Assess current AWS architecture and define a multi-year target-state roadmap aligned to business and product strategy.
Establish architectural principles, reference patterns, and governance models.
Design and evolve multi-tenant isolation strategies across compute, data, and messaging layers.
Define and enforce security-by-design standards including encryption, access control, and auditability.
Architect resilient, multi-AZ and multi-region systems with clear failure domains and disaster recovery strategies.
Define RTO and RPO targets and validate through testing and failover exercises.
Standardize AWS service usage across compute, networking, identity, storage, and messaging.
Guide event-driven and API-based architecture patterns.
Evaluate managed vs self-managed services with a long-term total cost perspective.
Lead architectural direction with external partners and vendors, ensuring alignment with internal standards.
Define and implement observability architecture across logging, metrics, tracing, and security signals.
Establish architecture governance including review processes, decision frameworks, and data protection standards.
Define data classification, handling, and tenant-aware data boundaries.
Partner with security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure audit readiness.
Evolve AWS organization structure including account strategy, OU design, and policy enforcement.
Design architecture foundations to support AI capabilities including retrieval systems, inference, and agent-driven workflows.
Ensure AI workloads align with tenant isolation, privacy, and governance requirements.