Somos is hiring a Senior Cloud Architect to provide hands-on technical leadership for our DevOps and platform engineering initiatives. You will own the reliability, automation, and delivery foundations that enable engineering teams to ship faster and operate safely in a dynamic, high-performing environment focused on advancing telecommunications.
What You'll Do
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the platform DevOps team; contribute to DevOps strategic plan and roadmap.
- Support and enhance our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to enable developer self-service and consistent delivery workflows.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to support consistent, reliable, and secure deployments.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to standardize environments and reduce manual effort.
- Build and maintain standardized templates / golden paths for service onboarding, CI/CD setup, and Kubernetes deployments.
- Own and enhance Kubernetes-based platform environments, improving scalability, stability, and operational readiness.
- Establish and maintain best practices for deployment automation, environment consistency, observability (monitoring/logging/alerts), and incident response readiness and reliability improvements.
- Partner with Engineering teams to improve developer experience, release processes, and system resiliency.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and cloud services; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Create and maintain strong technical documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks to improve repeatability and reduce operational risk.
- Evaluate tools and propose improvements to optimize pipeline performance, security, and maintainability.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
- Strong hands-on expertise with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Codefresh, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Strong understanding of operational fundamentals: high availability, scaling, load balancing, reliability, and security best practices.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with an ability to quickly isolate and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.
- Strong communication skills and comfort coordinating work across cross-functional engineering teams.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Scripting knowledge in bash. Knowledge of Python or node.js.
Technical Stack
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Codefresh, Jenkins
- Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
- Scripting: bash, Python, node.js
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation Range: $175,000 - $200,000
- 100% Company Paid Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family!
- 401(k) Savings Plan with Employer Contribution
- 100% Company Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
- 100% Company Paid Life Insurance
- Flexible Time Off program
- A Variety of Voluntary Benefits
Work Mode
This is a global role.
Somos is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
