Cloud Architect- Infrastructure Architect

Department: Tech

Location: Irvine, CA

Compensation: $170K – $195K

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

The Cloud Architect are the technical authorities who translate business requirements into secure, scalable, cost-efficient architectures on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Partnering with sales, delivery, and customer engineering teams, they own solution design, lead technical governance, and guide implementation through best-practice automation (IaC, CI/CD, DevSecOps) and modern patterns (containers, event-driven, serverless, data & AI platforms) to migrate, modernize, and optimize workloads on AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud that meet rigorous performance, security, and cost-efficiency targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Craft cloud architectures that include security, data, application, and operations.

• Define multi-account/-subscription landing zones, IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and policy-as-code baselines.

• Establish reference implementations reusable across engagements.

• Champion shift-left security and FinOps practices

• Mentor engineers during build & migration; troubleshoot complex issues spanning infrastructure, application, and data layers.

• Serve as an escalation point during go-live and hyper-care.

• Support pursuit teams with solution diagrams.

• Present technical vision to C-suite and enterprise architects

• Publish blog posts, white papers, and internal knowledge articles.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years experience engineering solutions on at least one CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Experience with mentoring engineers.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or similar.

• Strong grasp of DevSecOps, SRE, and FinOps principles.

• Experience architecting data platforms and/or integrating AI/ML services.

• Proven client-facing communication skills; able to defend architectural decisions with executives and engineers alike.

• Exposure to serverless patterns, event-driven architectures, and edge/IoT solutions.

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect (one required, multiples preferred).

Why You'll Love It Here

• Our Product is Our People: We live by this. We invest in people who invest in themselves. Your growth is our growth.

• True Servant Leadership: Our CTO leads with a "force multiplier" philosophy. Management is here to empower you and clear roadblocks, not to micromanage. We won't ask you to do anything we're not willing to do ourselves.

• Flat Organization, Real Impact: Your voice and designs will directly shape our technical roadmap and our clients' success. You'll work on the latest tech to solve real problems.

• A "Learn-from-it" Culture: We're moving fast and building new things. We believe mistakes are learning opportunities, not failures.

We seek diverse talent who are ready to make an immediate impact. We believe that innovation thrives when teams are built with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you are excited by this mission, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn't perfectly match every qualification listed.

Megazone Cloud is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires.