Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect

What You Will Bring

Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in cloud architecture infrastructure engineering or platform engineering including strong hands-on AWS experience.

Experience with cloud monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch Dynatrace Prometheus/Grafana Splunk or similar.

Experience working with managed service providers and outsourced vendors for cloud operations and delivery.

Experience in financial services or automotive industries preferred

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related technical field.

Masters degree preferred.

ITIL Foundation certification preferred.

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) and networking certifications preferred.

Deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture including multi-account strategies landing zones and hybrid cloud designs.

Proven experience designing production-grade architecture across compute storage databases networking and security

Proven experience leading large-scale cloud migrations and modernization initiatives.

Design and governance of AWS multi-account environments using AWS Organizations SCPs and environment segmentation.

Strong knowledge of AWS networking (VPC route tables security groups/NACLs Transit Gateway Direct Connect Route 53).

Strong knowledge of AWS security (IAM KMS Secrets Manager security logging/monitoring threat detection) and secure-by-design principles.

Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation.

Experience with observability and operations: logging/metrics/tracing on-call practices and incident/problem management.

Experience defining landing zones shared services and centralized logging architectures.

Strong understanding of high availability resiliency fault tolerance disaster recovery and performance optimization in cloud environments.

Hands-on experience designing multi-AZ and multi-region AWS architectures.

Ability to align solutions with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and enterprise security standards.

Strong understanding of enterprise data classification encryption standards and key management in cloud environments.

Proven experience supporting or leading data center exit and application modernization programs.

Strong documentation skills and ability to produce architecture diagrams standards reference architecture and runbooks.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to communicate complex cloud architectures clearly to both technical teams and executive leadership.

Work Environment

Employees in this class are subject to extended periods of sitting standing and walking vision to monitor and moderate noise levels. Work is performed in an at home and office environment.

The posted salary range for this job takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; geographic location and other business and organizational needs. Successful candidates may be hired anywhere in the salary range based on these factors. It is uncommon to hire candidates at or near the top of the range.

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Who We Are

Through our service brands Hyundai Motor Finance Genesis Finance and Kia Finance Hyundai Capital America offers a wide range of financial products tailored to meet the needs of Hyundai Genesis and Kia customers and dealerships. We provide vehicle financing leasing subscription and insurance solutions to over 3 million consumers and businesses. Embodying our commitment to grow innovate and diversify we strive to reimagine the customer and dealer experience and launch innovative new products that broaden our market reach. We believe that success comes from within and are proud to support our team members through skill development and career advancement. Hyundai Capital America is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our workforce. We are a values-driven company dedicated to supporting both internal and external communities through volunteering philanthropy and the empowerment of our Employee Resource Groups. Together we strive to be the leader in financing freedom of movement.

We Take Care of Our People

Along with competitive pay as an employee of HCA you are eligible for:

Medical dental and vision plans with no-cost and low-cost options

Annual employer HSA contribution

401(k) matching and immediate vesting

Vehicle purchase and lease discounts plus monthly vehicle allowances by job level:

o Associate / Sr. Associate: $350

o Manager / Sr. Manager: $600

o Director: $800

o Executive Director: $900

o VP or Above: $1000

100% employer-paid life and disability insurance

No-cost health and wellbeing programs including a gym benefit

Six weeks of paid parental leave

Paid Volunteer Time Off plus a company donation to a charity of your choice

What to Expect

The Sr. Cloud Architect designs builds and governs scalable secure and cost-effective cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role partners with engineering security and product teams to define target architectures enable cloud-native delivery and ensure platforms meet availability performance compliance and operational excellence standards.

What You Will Do

1. Architecture & Solution Design

Lead end-to-end cloud architecture for new and existing workloads including reference architectures patterns and technical standards.

Architect highly available and resilient systems using services such as ELB/ALB/NLB Auto Scaling ECS/EKS Lambda RDS/Aurora DynamoDB S3 and CloudFront.

Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into solution designs estimates risks and implementation roadmaps.

Provide technical leadership through design reviews mentoring and hands-on guidance.

Perform cost optimization and capacity planning (FinOps): tagging budgets Reserved Instances/Savings Plans right-sizing and cost allocation reporting.

Plan and execute migrations and modernization (re-host re-platform re-factor) and data transfer approaches using AWS migration tooling.

Define disaster recovery architectures including workload tiering RTO/RPO alignment and cross-region failover patterns.

2. Platform Foundation Networking & Governance

Design secure landing zones and multi-account strategies using AWS Organizations SCPs IAM networking logging and guardrails.

Define network and connectivity designs (VPC design Transit Gateway Direct Connect/VPN private connectivity DNS) aligned to performance and security needs.

Establish infrastructure-as-code and configuration standards using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation; promote reusable modules and CI/CD automation.

3. Project / Performance Management:

Lead development implementation and management of project-based strategies to achieve HCAs Digital Division goals.

Compile and facilitate executive reporting and visibility on department and division initiatives and KPIs to ensure progress and alignment.

4. Security Risk & Compliance

Implement security best practices: least privilege IAM KMS encryption secrets management WAF/Shield vulnerability management and security monitoring (e.g. GuardDuty Security Hub).

Own cloud governance and compliance alignment (e.g. ISO SOC 2 PCI HIPAA as applicable) including evidence collection and control mapping.

5. Technical Standards

Partner with Platform Engineering DevSecOps and Architecture Review Board (ARB) teams to ensure architectural standards are implemented through reusable patterns automation frameworks and governed exception processes

Establish and maintain cloud architecture standards patterns and reference architectures aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework enterprise architecture principles and financial services best practices.

6. Documentation

Produce and maintain clear cloud architecture documentation including solution designs reference architectures migration runbooks implementation plans and operational handoff artifacts; participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and technical governance forums.

Lead architecture reviews and document design risks exceptions and approved deviations through ARB governance.