[Hiring] Senior Director Cloud Architecture @ELLKAY, LLC

Role Description

The Senior Cloud and Infrastructure Architect is responsible for defining and guiding the cloud, infrastructure, and platform architecture that underpins all products and data/AI workloads. This role ensures the environment is secure, scalable, reliable, and optimized for cost and performance across multiple cloud and hybrid deployments.

Working Hours: 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM EST (Eastern Standard time) and 6 PM to 3 AM IST (Indian Standard Time)

Budget: 130000 - 160000 USD per annum

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define the cloud and infrastructure architecture, including compute, storage, networking, and platform services.
• Design reference architectures and patterns for microservices, container platforms, Kubernetes, and serverless workloads.
• Partner with AI/data, application, and security teams to design infrastructure that supports high-scale data and AI systems.
• Lead cloud modernization, migration, and consolidation initiatives across regions and business units.
• Establish standards and best practices for reliability, observability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to implement robust identity, access, encryption, and network security controls.
• Evaluate and select cloud services, infrastructure tools, and vendors; manage technical relationships where required.
• Mentor infrastructure and platform engineers and support complex incident resolution and root-cause analysis.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering roles.
• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience with multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong background in Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and modern DevOps practices.
• Proven experience designing highly available, resilient, and secure production environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, observability, and performance optimization in cloud environments.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect) are a plus.

Benefits

• ELLKAY is committed to fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment that supports innovation, teamwork, and professional growth.
• Most roles are designed to operate from our office locations to encourage effective collaboration and engagement across teams.
• Any alternative work arrangements may be considered at the company’s discretion based on role requirements and business needs.

Company Description

ELLKAY started out providing connectivity solutions to laboratories and within a few years, grew to also provide data management solutions to ambulatory organizations. ELLKAY is now a trusted data management partner in five healthcare segments. ELLKAY’s solutions continue to serve laboratories and ambulatory practices and have expanded to empower hospitals and health systems, healthcare IT vendors, ambulatory practices, health plans, and other healthcare organizations with cutting-edge technologies and solutions that drive their growth and interoperability strategies.

Today, ELLKAY remains true to our core values, building strong partner relationships and offering unparalleled service and support while providing innovative, scalable solutions to the challenges our customers face in today’s data-rich world.

ELLKAY's experience, customer-focused approach, and reputation for innovation, speed, and accuracy differentiate ELLKAY as a premier partner for your interoperability needs and data management strategy.