Senior Cloud Architect
Robots and Pencils2 hours ago
Remote, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Contribute to architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems while owning meaningful system 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 data modeling.
- Support AI/ML system design, model serving, MLOps pipelines, and 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.
- Document architecture, participate in design reviews, communicate technical tradeoffs, and contribute to architectural standards.
- Take on increasing architectural responsibility and begin mentoring junior engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on exposure to architectural decision-making.
- Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Python and at least one additional modern-stack language such as Java, Scala, or TypeScript.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with microservices, serverless, containerization, event-driven systems, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, data pipelines, and ETL/ELT concepts.
- Familiarity with AI/ML system design, model deployment, MLOps, and LLM integration.
- Awareness of cloud networking, security, identity, and access-management fundamentals.
- Understanding of security, compliance, and observability fundamentals, including GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC2.
- Demonstrable day-to-day use of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor.
- Strong problem-solving skills, sound judgment, communication ability, ownership, and willingness to mentor junior engineers.
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About Robots and Pencils
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementation services spanning data readiness, cloud modernization, and AI enablement. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with delivery teams across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.