Cloud Architect EarthLink Telecommunications

Architecture & Design
Design private, public, or hybrid cloud platforms (VMware, CloudStack, OpenStack, Kubernetes-based).
Define reference architectures for compute, storage, networking, and security.
Own multi-AZ, HA, and DR designs no single points of failure.
Standardize platform components.

Infrastructure & Platforms
Architect and optimize:
Virtualization (VMware, KVM, CloudStack)
Containers (Kubernetes, OpenShift, managed or self-hosted)
Storage (SAN, object, distributed storage like Ceph, Pure, PowerStore)
Networking (L2/L3, BGP, EVPN, SDN, load balancing)
Drive performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Automation & IaC
Enforce Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Helm).
Define Git-based workflows (GitOps where applicable).
Eliminate manual provisioning wherever possible.

Security & Governance
Embed security by design:
IAM, RBAC, network segmentation
Secrets management (Vault, Bitwarden, KMS)
Compliance, audit, and hardening standards
Define guardrails, not bottlenecks.

Reliability & Operations
Design for observability:
Monitoring (Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana)
Logging (ELK, Loki)
Alerting that doesn t spam
Define SLOs, SLAs, and capacity models.
Support incident reviews and root-cause analysis no blame, only fixes.

Leadership & Enablement
Act as technical authority for cloud decisions.
Review and approve designs from engineers and vendors.
Mentor platform, SRE, and infrastructure teams.
Push back on bad ideas even from management.

Required Skills & Experience
Core Technical Skills
Strong Linux fundamentals.
Deep understanding of:
Virtualization and cloud platforms
Networking (routing, switching, load balancing)
Storage architectures
Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
Solid automation and scripting skills.

7+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering.
Proven experience designing production-grade cloud platforms.
Experience operating large-scale systems.