Lead Cloud (AWS) - Brazil at Object Edge

About Object Edge:

Object Edge is an award-winning eCommerce consultancy that delivers end-to-end design and development solutions centered around our client’s goals and customer needs.
Our teams unite curious, intellectual advisors across the globe who creatively solve business problems and produce measurable results.

About the Position:

We are seeking a visionary Lead Cloud Architect to spearhead our Multi-tenant SaaS application deployment on AWS and lead our DevOps engineering team. With over a decade of hands-on experience in the AWS ecosystem, you will be the primary authority on our architectural decisions, ensuring our systems are scalable, resilient, and cost-effective. You will bridge the gap between high-level business goals and technical execution, managing both complex projects and a high-performing technical team.

Location: Remote

What You’ll Do:

• Architectural Strategy: Design and oversee the end-to-end architecture of global AWS environments using a Standardize-First approach.
• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers. Conduct code reviews, performance evaluations, and technical coaching.Perform handson day to day AWS tasks needed for project delivery.
• Project Management: Lead large-scale infrastructure migrations and deployments using Agile/Scrum methodologies. Ensure on-time delivery of infrastructure milestones.
• Governance & Compliance: Define security standards (IAM, ACM, VPC Peering) and cost-optimization (FinOps) strategies across the entire AWS organization.
• Operational Excellence: Act as the final escalation point for complex system failures, performing deep-root cause analysis on Linux environments and distributed systems.
• Handson Role : Even though this is an AWS architect role, it will be more of a hands-on role and we expect the candidate to get into details and actually work on delivering stuff.

Technical Requirements (Mastery Level)

• AWS Expertise (8 + Years): Absolute proficiency across the full AWS catalog, including but not limited to EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, VPC, ELB, API GW and S3
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven track record of building production-grade frameworks using Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.
• Orchestration & CI/CD: Expert knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, including Helm, Service Mesh, and advanced GitHub Actions workflows.
• Programming: High proficiency in Python for building custom tooling and automation frameworks.

Good to have : Linux Mastery: Expert-level administration of Amazon Linux, CentOS, and Ubuntu. Deep knowledge of kernel tuning, file systems, and enterprise-grade server hardening.

Required Qualifications:

• Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Mandatory).
• Experience: 12+ years of dedicated AWS experience; 5+ years in a leadership or architectural role.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Bonus: Professional experience with GCP architecture and multi-cloud strategies.

Compensation:

Salary is commensurate with experience based on department and role.

Object Edge provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. We believe in providing employees with a work environment free of unlawful discrimination and harassment. In addition to national law requirements, Object Edge complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.