[Hiring] Cloud Platform Architect @Evolent

Role Description

As a Platform Architect in Evolent's Platform Engineering & Operations (PEO) organization, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the cloud and infrastructure platforms that Evolent's applications run on. This role involves strategic thinking to solve high impactful organizational issues with expertise in major cloud platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provision and change infrastructure exclusively as code, so that every environment is reproducible, reviewable, and free of manual drift.
• Reverse engineer the applications and infrastructure you inherit: trace dependencies, integrations, and data flows end to end until you can explain how a system actually works.
• Design and build agentic AI solutions for platform, delivery, and operations work: identify the toil worth automating, then build, evaluate, and harden the agent that removes it.
• Build security and compliance into the delivery path: least-privilege access, secrets handling, policy-as-code guardrails, and audit evidence produced by design rather than assembled under deadline.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Demonstrates humility, openness to feedback, and a team-first mindset.
• Comfortable with a high level of transparency, surfacing risks and mistakes early.
• Ability to create high-quality technical diagrams and documentation.
• Deep knowledge of agentic AI concepts: agents and tool use, orchestration, context and retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and the limits of each.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to reverse engineer application architecture: take an unfamiliar application and the infrastructure under it, trace its components, dependencies, and data flows.
• Working fluency in Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code. Terraform and Ansible are Evolent's standard tooling.

Domain Expertise — Platform Architecture

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient workloads on the Azure platform.
• Maintain overall cloud organization and standards such as the Azure Landing Zone architecture, the Azure Well Architected Framework, and Enterprise Policy Governance.
• Implement cloud security measures and controls set by Senior and Principal team members from regulatory compliance frameworks such as HITRUST & CIS.
• Proficiency with tools such as Azure Portal/CLI, Azure Advisor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Graph, and VS Code.
• Analyze existing cloud architectures and recommend optimizations for cost efficiency, scalability, resiliency, and performance.

Nice to Have (Preferred)

• Experience applying agentic AI concepts, whether through professional experience, personal projects, academic work, or other relevant initiatives.
• Proficiency in a scripting or programming language used for automation and tooling, such as Python, Go, PowerShell, C#, or Bash.
• Experience in a regulated environment, for example healthcare and HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar.

Certifications (Preferred)

• Relevant Azure certifications preferred, for example AZ-104 or AZ-305, AI-500 or AB-100.
• ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity.

Academic Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Mandatory Requirements

• Employees must have a high-speed broadband internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps and the ability to set up a wired connection to their home network to ensure effective remote work.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.