23 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead client engagements and cross-functional teams delivering advanced cloud architecture and implementation solutions.
- Provide architectural thought leadership, technical guidance, client education, presentations, and technical decision-making.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS architectures focused on reliability, security, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Write Infrastructure as Code and develop automation, runbooks, monitoring, and remediation workflows.
- Lead cloud re-platforming, refactoring, modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Build observability solutions for APM, infrastructure monitoring, logging, tracing, and metrics collection.
- Work with CloudOps, DevOps, security, operations, and 24x7 response teams to reduce operational noise and address root causes.
- Coach team members, define stories and tasks, perform code reviews, provide feedback, and pair when useful.
- Contribute to internal intellectual property, open-source development, technical blogs, community talks, and AWS Partner certifications.
- Build relationships with clients, vendors, and partners; occasional travel may be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field and six years of general IT experience, or eight-plus years of general IT experience without the degree.
- At least four years of Amazon Web Services experience.
- At least two years of code-defined infrastructure experience.
- At least two years of Continuous Integration and Delivery experience.
- At least four years of experience with cloud-native patterns such as AWS Lambda.
- At least four years of experience architecting and building scalable, automated infrastructure.
- Experience with Agile Project Management or other project management methodologies.
- Preferred AWS Associate and/or Professional certification.
- Preferred two-plus years of programming experience with Python, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Java, C#, or similar languages.
- Preferred experience with large-scale enterprise IT environments, consultative client-facing consulting, AWS and application observability, documentation, presentations, and cloud-native patterns.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement across Canada, the United States, and Latin America.
- Medical insurance for employees and eligible dependents, plus dental and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting.
- Competitive phantom equity, company-issued laptop, and equipment and office stipend.
- Term disability insurance, term life insurance, and flexible spending account.
- Annual learning and development stipend.
- Unlimited paid time off after a 90-day probationary period and 10 paid holidays.
- Occasional travel may be required for stakeholder meetings, project kickoffs, conferences, and company functions.
About Caylent
Caylent provides cloud and AI consulting and managed services for organizations building on AWS, including migration, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, and security. It operates as a professional services and managed services provider, with specialized work in generative and agentic AI and the Anthropic Claude ecosystem. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Irvine, California, Caylent is privately held and backed by Gryphon Investors.