Senior Cloud Architect

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Senior Cloud Architect designing cloud-native, data, and AI/ML systems for Robots & Pencils, an applied AI engineering firm. Building production-ready enterprise solutions across US and Canada.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems, taking ownership of meaningful components
  • Build and integrate cloud-native solutions including microservices, serverless, and containerized workloads
  • Implement infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
  • Design and contribute to data architectures including pipelines, warehouses, and modeling
  • Support AI/ML system design, including model serving, MLOps pipelines, and integration of LLM-based capabilities
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and observability across deployed systems
  • Collaborate with engineering, data, AI, and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
  • Communicate technical tradeoffs and design decisions across functions
  • Maintain architecture documentation
  • Participate in design reviews
  • Take ownership of system components with growing architectural responsibility
  • Contribute to architectural standards and best practices
  • Mentor junior engineers and support their growth

Requirements:

  • Applications from outside Canada and the US will not be considered
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with exposure to architectural decision-making
  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one other language commonly used in modern stacks, such as Java, Scala, or TypeScript
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions
  • Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, plus data pipelines and ETL/ELT concepts, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Airflow, and dbt
  • Familiarity with AI/ML system design, including model deployment, MLOps, and LLM integration, such as SageMaker, Vertex AI, MLflow, and Hugging Face
  • Understanding of microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures
  • Awareness of security, compliance, and observability fundamentals, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC2
  • Demonstrable usage of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguous technical challenges

Benefits:

  • Paid time off
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)