ZoomInfo

Principal Cloud Architect

ZoomInfo
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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$158k - $248k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end platform patterns, build reference implementations, document architectural rationale, and open pull requests to enable adoption.
  • Participate in weekly architecture reviews using a consistent rubric and expand standards libraries and Architecture Decision Records.
  • Own architectural stewardship for cloud infrastructure or data architecture, including scalability, resilience, security, messaging, databases, pipelines, warehouses, and lakehouses.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor changes through structured proof-of-concepts, lifecycle standards, onboarding, phase-out, and consolidation recommendations.
  • Partner with FinOps on cost optimization, including evaluating AI and model infrastructure spending.
  • Host design reviews and workshops and provide technical consulting to engineering teams making complex infrastructure decisions.
  • Shape multi-year platform strategy covering developer experience, delivery pipelines, and AI-augmented architecture review tooling.
  • Drive standards adoption across engineering organizations without formal managerial authority.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10-15+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or data architecture.
  • Proven experience setting technical direction across large-scale systems used by multiple teams.
  • Production experience with GCP and/or AWS and practical Kubernetes experience, including GKE or an equivalent runtime.
  • Strong proficiency with Terraform, GitOps workflows, and reusable infrastructure modules.
  • Depth in cloud infrastructure architecture or data architecture, with experience in relevant networking, Kubernetes, service mesh, messaging, database, analytics, pipeline, or search technologies.
  • Ability to build working prototypes, evaluate system behavior under load, and understand incidents, on-call impact, capacity, and rollout blast radius.
  • Strong technical leadership, writing, presentation, architecture governance, and cross-organizational influence skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct rigorous technology evaluations and produce actionable recommendations.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure requirements, including model serving, vector databases, and inference cost and latency trade-offs.
  • Experience with GCP organization policies, folder structures, IAM inheritance, Confluent Platform, architecture governance, AI-augmented architecture review workflows, or MLOps tooling is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits
  • Holistic mind, body, and lifestyle well-being programs

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSElasticsearchGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformIstioKubernetesMLflowMongoDBPostgreSQLSnowflakeTerraform

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
ZoomInfo

About ZoomInfo

10,000+ employees

ZoomInfo builds a subscription go-to-market platform for B2B sales and marketing teams, combining company and contact data, intent signals, and sales engagement tools. Its products help organizations find prospects, align GTM motions, and automate outreach, and are used by more than 35,000 companies. The public company (NASDAQ: GTM; also traded in Frankfurt) is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, and grew out of DiscoverOrg’s acquisition of ZoomInfo.

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