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From operating complex businesses to backing breakthrough technologies, our mission is to build enduring businesses. Our team combines intelligent risk-taking, operational excellence, exceptional talent, and world-class computing capacity to create shareholder value.\nOur company offers a dynamic environment where individuals have the freedom to lead companies toward bold achievements by embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and fostering differentiated business strategies. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.\nAt NorthMark Strategies, we believe the future isn’t something to hope for, it’s something to build. We don’t just invest, we create. Bringing together strategic insight and technical horsepower to deliver outcomes that endure.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to own the technical direction of our public cloud platforms. Reporting to the Director of Cloud Platform, you will be the senior technical authority across AWS and Azure. You will set architecture standards, design governance controls, and guide engineering teams in turning them into production-grade platforms.\nThe role spans the full architecture lifecycle. That covers discovery and design, implementation guidance, platform operationalization, and the documentation and enablement that let platforms scale beyond the people who built them. You will work across managed Kubernetes, cloud networking, security, and data platform architecture. You will also shape how AI tooling is embedded in engineering: not as a productivity add-on, but as a quality gate in the delivery pipeline.\nRequirements\nArchitecture Standards & Governance\nDefine cloud architecture standards, reference architecture, and design principles across AWS and Azure\nDesign and enforce technical guardrails across multi-account AWS and multi-subscription Azure environments, using policy-as-code and compliance controls (e.g., AWS SCPs/RCPs, Azure Policy)\nTranslate industry frameworks (e.g., CAF, Well-Architected) into concrete technical controls and patterns\nDesign the tagging and cost-attribution architecture that underpins FinOps reporting\nPresent architecture direction, trade-offs, and technical risk to senior leadership alongside the Director\nPlatform Architecture\nArchitect multi-cloud landing zones and hub-and-spoke network topologies across AWS and Azure\nDesign Kubernetes platforms at scale on managed services (e.g., AKS, EKS), including cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, and workload scheduling\nLead cloud network architecture: inter-region and cross-cloud routing, private DNS, private endpoints, and connectivity to corporate networks (e.g., ExpressRoute, Direct Connect)\nIntegrate batch and workflow orchestration on Kubernetes with cloud-native service networking and modern workload identity patterns\nData Platform Architecture\nDesign cloud data platforms using layered (e.g., medallion) architecture across ingestion, transformation, and consumption\nEnable distributed querying across curated data sources for engineering and analytical users\nDefine data access control, governance, and observability patterns\nAI & Emerging Capabilities\nArchitect AI inference gateway infrastructure that provides centralized model routing, security controls, cost attribution, and observability\nDesign self-hosted, open-weight model inference on cloud GPU capacity, so AI workloads can run against sensitive data without exposure to third-party model providers\nDesign agentic AI workflows for engineering (deployment review, IaC PR validation, platform operations) that act as quality gates in the delivery pipeline\nTechnical Leadership & Enablement\nServe as the technical escalation point for the hardest platform problems\nMentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and architecture guidance\nRun technical workshops on new architecture patterns, tools, and practical AI workflows\nContribute to technical interviews and set the technical bar for platform roles\nTechnical Delivery\nOwn Infrastructure as Code standards (Terraform), including bringing existing cloud resources under version-controlled IaC and enforcing repeatable deployment patterns\nDefine DevSecOps pipeline patterns and identity and security architecture\nProduce architecture documentation (high-level and low-level designs) and runbooks that let others operate and extend the platforms\nWhat You'll Bring\nEssential\nCareer progression from hands-on infrastructure or cloud engineering into principal-level cloud architecture\nProduction depth across AWS and Azure: landing zones, multi-account/subscription governance, managed services, and security architectureManaged Kubernetes at scale (AKS, EKS), including cluster lifecycle management and workload schedulingCloud networking: hub-and-spoke topologies, peering, private DNS, private endpoints, and hybrid connectivityTerraform fluency in complex, multi-account environments\nA track record of designing and enforcing cloud governance: guardrails, policy-as-code, and compliance controls\nInfluencing engineering teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority\nClearly communicating architecture decisions and trade-offs, both written and presented\nCertifications (one or more expected)\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert\nAWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) \nPreferred\nCloud HPC for scientific or engineering workloads, including job schedulers and high-speed interconnects (e.g., InfiniBand)\nCloud data platform delivery at production scale (e.g., medallion architecture, AWS data services)\nAI inference gateway or model serving infrastructureAgentic AI workflows applied to infrastructure engineering\nGPU infrastructure or ML platforms in the cloudRegulated or high-availability environments (e.g., financial services, motorsport, government)\nA degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience\nCCNA or equivalent network engineering foundation\nWhat the Role is\nThis is a senior individual-contributor role focused on public cloud architecture. You will set platform direction and standards, and engineering teams will deliver against them. You'll work closely with the Director of Cloud Platform, who owns team management, operating model, budget, and program delivery, while you make technical decisions. Hands-on credibility matters: you'll work directly in infrastructure as code and step in on critical issues when needed.\nIt is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.\nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.\nBenefits & Perks:\nCompany-Paid Lunch Stipend: Lunch is provided via GrubHub\n\nCompany-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability\n\n401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6%\n\nOptional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more.\n\nTime Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays\n\n EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER\nNORTHMARK STRATEGIES LLC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. 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