Cloud Native Enterprise Architect / Senior Solution Architect//Texas, New York/New Jersey, North Carolina, Chicago, Atlanta

We are looking for a few experienced Hybrid Cloud Enterprise/Senior Solution Architect with hands on experience on each the following areas. 

1. Cloud-native platforms and containers — architecture, implementation, and operations experience with Kubernetes and enterprise distributions such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, SUSE Rancher, or Rafay. Experience should include cluster design, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, security, observability, upgrades, resilience, and workload lifecycle management.

Platform engineering and application delivery — experience designing automated developer platforms and software delivery workflows using GitOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, policy as code, secrets management, container registries, software supply-chain controls, service mesh, observability, and site reliability engineering practices.

As a Cloud Native Enterprise Architect or Senior Solution Architect, you will advise customers and define and deliver hybrid-cloud strategies and architectures aligned with their business and technology requirements. You will design, guide the implementation of, and optimise cloud-native solutions that improve scalability, resilience, security, and operational efficiency across complex enterprise environments.

This position requires a strong blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership to work closely with cross-functional teams in IT, security, and business units to drive cloud transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and design of cloud native, ensuring alignment with our customer's business requirements.
• Advise, develop, integrate and implement solutions in the cloud native technology areas ensuring seamless interoperability, security, and data governance.
• Provide architectural oversight for the design, deployment, and lifecycle management in cloud native technology areas, focusing on scalability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate with business leaders to understand enterprise-level requirements and translate them into effective, scalable cloud native architecture.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to industry standards, regulatory compliance (e.g., ISO, GDPR), and best practices for environment security, data privacy, and infrastructure resilience.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to teams involved in cloud native solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, including blueprints, guidelines, and best practices for using these artefacts as standard reference across the delivery teams.
• Monitor industry trends and innovations to drive continuous improvement and stay ahead of technological advancements.