Solidgate is looking for a Cloud Architect to take real ownership in a build-first role. You will be focused on building the foundations of a new, high-performance platform, designing, evolving, and ensuring the reliability of a multi-region payment architecture.
What You'll Do
- Own the design, evolution, and reliability of a multi-region payment architecture.
- Own the performance and scalability of RDS/PostgreSQL/Aurora and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, including sharding, partitioning, and high-load optimisation.
- Own the delivery and adoption of a cell-based architecture.
- Own the end-to-end automation of database upgrades and migrations.
- Own automated failover strategies to increase system uptime.
- Own the implementation of SRE practices, including Chaos Engineering, and the integration of Observability with SRE metrics across teams.
- Own the continuous improvement of Incident Management in the company.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience designing and operating high-scale, multi-region cloud architectures.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in performance tuning and scaling PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
- Strong background in infrastructure-as-code and automation, with a focus on reliability and SRE principles.
- Ability to take full ownership of complex technical domains and drive them from design to adoption.
- Experience leading the implementation of SRE practices such as Chaos Engineering and Observability.
Technical Stack
- AWS
- Terraform
- ECS Fargate
- RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL
- OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Infrastructure function within the engineering organization.
Benefits & Compensation
- 30+ days off
- Unlimited sick leave
- Free office meals
- Health coverage
- Apple gear
- Courses and conferences
- Sports and wellness benefits
Solidgate is an equal opportunity employer.
