[Hiring] Volunteer Cloud Architect @Solution Community

Role Description

Solution Community seeks a Volunteer Cloud Architect to design, modernize, and scale the organization's cloud infrastructure, platforms, data environments, and AI-enabled services. This role will provide technical leadership for cloud strategy, architecture governance, security, reliability, automation, and platform engineering practices across multiple initiatives.

The ideal candidate combines deep cloud architecture expertise with hands-on experience designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions while collaborating with engineering, AI, DevOps, product, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Solution Community's cloud architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Design secure, highly available, and scalable cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Establish cloud architecture standards, governance processes, and best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
• Design and optimize multi-tier applications, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and managed cloud services.
• Create infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Partner with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and platform reliability.
• Design security architecture incorporating IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, compliance controls, and monitoring.
• Optimize cloud spending and resource utilization.
• Support AI, machine learning, analytics, and data platform initiatives from an infrastructure and architecture perspective.
• Mentor engineers and help develop cloud engineering capabilities across volunteer teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or solution architecture.
• Experience architecting and operating production workloads in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, high availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, ARM/Bicep, etc.).
• Deep knowledge of networking, security architecture, identity management, and observability practices.
• Experience designing CI/CD and DevSecOps solutions.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, APIs, integrations, and platform modernization.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and technical leadership skills.

Nice-to-Have

• Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and data engineering workloads.
• Background in enterprise architecture or platform strategy.
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
• Open-source leadership or volunteer experience.

Impact

The Volunteer Cloud Architect will play a strategic role in building the foundation that enables Solution Community's engineering, AI, data, and product teams to innovate rapidly while maintaining scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence.