Senior Cloud & Platform Architect

AArete is one-of-a-kind when it comes to consulting firm culture. 

We’re a global, innovative management and technology consulting firm with offices in the U.S. and India. Our name comes from the Greek word for excellence: “Areté.”  And excellence is exactly what we strive for.  

We’re celebrating our fourth year as one of Forbes’ World’s Best Management Consulting Firms – and our success starts with our people. From robust career development planning to competitive life and wellness benefits, AArete’s “Culture of Care” takes a holistic approach to the employee experience.   

AAretians (our team members) are leaders at every level. You are encouraged to unlock your full potential by directly contributing to our mission and prioritizing personal development and fulfillment.  

 The Role

We are hiring a Senior Cloud & Platform Architect to serve as a strategic technical partner to AArete’s US-based Cloud & Infrastructure Lead. This is a senior advisory and hands-on architecture role for someone with deep experience in cloud platform engineering, IT automation, AIOps, and product infrastructure at scale. 

AArete’s US-based infrastructure lead has extensive knowledge of the company’s existing environment, systems, and healthcare data operations. What we need from this role is a highly experienced partner who brings a wealth of experience in cloud architecture best practices, production-grade automation, AIOps implementation, and product development infrastructure that the team hasn’t had the opportunity to build yet. You will advise, co-design, and build alongside the US lead.

This role spans all AArete cloud platforms and future product offerings. You will bring external perspective and depth to an environment that is rapidly evolving from a consulting-driven delivery model to a product-oriented engineering organization.

You will work as part of a globally distributed team spanning the US, UK, and India. You will be expected to collaborate daily with US-based engineers, architects, and leadership across time zones.

• Partner with the US-based Cloud & Infrastructure Lead to evaluate, design, and evolve AArete’s AWS cloud architecture across all AArete platforms
• Bring external best practices in cloud-native architecture, multi-environment management, and infrastructure scalability that the team can adopt and implement
• Advise on Terraform module design, state management patterns, environment promotion strategies, and drift detection at scale
• Co-design infrastructure for new product builds, ensuring architectures are production-grade, scalable, and maintainable from day one
• Evaluate and recommend new AWS services and capabilities as the platform evolves (e.g., Bedrock, Textract, Step Functions, SageMaker endpoints, EventBridge)

• Lead the design and implementation of AIOps capabilities: intelligent monitoring, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, automated remediation, and workload optimization using AWS-native services
• Architect self-healing infrastructure patterns: automated scaling, failure recovery, drift correction, and proactive incident prevention
• Design intelligent cost optimization frameworks: automated warehouse scheduling, storage tiering, reserved capacity management, and spend anomaly detection
• Explore and implement AI-assisted operations using AWS Bedrock or similar services for operational intelligence, log analysis, and predictive infrastructure management
• Bring proven patterns from prior experience to accelerate AArete’s automation maturity

• Advise on CI/CD pipeline architecture and deployment strategies across Bitbucket, AWS, and related tooling
• Bring product development infrastructure experience: release management, feature flagging, environment provisioning, and deployment automation at a product (not project) cadence
• Help evolve the team’s DevOps practices from consulting-delivery patterns to product-engineering standards
• Contribute to the design and enforcement of deployment standards: branching strategies, automated testing gates, rollback procedures, and release governance

• Maintain sprint boards, release plans, and delivery roadmaps in Jira
• Advise on security architecture and compliance posture across all environments (HIPAA, BAA, PHI handling)
• Review and improve IAM policies, encryption patterns, VPC design, and access control frameworks
• Contribute to monitoring and observability strategy using CloudWatch, Grafana, SNS, and custom dashboards
• Support disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and business continuity procedures
• Conduct periodic architecture reviews and recommend hardening measures

• Serve as a technical sounding board and mentor to the US-based Cloud Lead, sharing patterns, anti-patterns, and lessons learned from prior environments
• Collaborate with data engineers and product teams across AArete
• Contribute to AArete’s engineering standards, technical documentation, and architecture decision records in Confluence
• Help establish a culture of operational excellence, automation-first thinking, and infrastructure-as-product across the DAE team
• Other duties as assigned 

• 10+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps architecture, or site reliability engineering experience
• Deep expertise in AWS: architecture design, multi-account strategies, S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, IAM, MWAA, VPC, API Gateway, EventBridge, Systems Manager, and networking
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling at scale (module libraries, state management, workspace strategies, CI/CD-driven infrastructure deployment)
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing AIOps or intelligent automation solutions: anomaly detection, auto-remediation, predictive alerting, and workload optimization
• Strong background in cloud automation: auto-scaling, self-healing patterns, scheduled operations, and cost optimization at scale
• Experience supporting production product infrastructure (not just project-based consulting environments) understanding of release cadence, uptime requirements, and platform reliability at a product level
• Proficiency in scripting and automation: Python, Bash, or both
• Solid understanding of security and compliance in AWS: IAM architecture, encryption, VPC design, audit logging, and regulatory frameworks
• Experience with monitoring and observability at scale (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate as a technical peer with US-based engineers and leadership
• Experience working in globally distributed teams with daily cross-timezone collaboration
• Self-directed with the ability to operate at a senior advisory level... you identify gaps and propose solutions without being asked

 Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS AI/ML services: Bedrock, SageMaker, Textract, and integrating AI into operational workflows
• Healthcare industry experience, particularly HIPAA compliance and PHI handling in cloud environments.  Familiarity with security frameworks such as HITRUST SOC-2, ISO 27001.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or Amazon ECS)
• Golang experience for backend service and API development
• Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost governance at an organizational level
• Experience evolving engineering teams from consulting-delivery models to product-engineering models
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent
• Familiarity with API Gateway, microservices architecture, and event-driven patterns
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

 We’re a global management and technology consulting firm specializing in strategic profitability improvement, digital transformation, and strategy & change for clients. Our cross-industry solutions are powered by a digital-first mindset, market intelligence, and data-driven approach to deliver purposeful change, actionable insights, and guaranteed results.  

But what sets us apart is our people. We are guided by our deeply embedded guiding principles: Excellence, Passion, Loyalty to Clients, Stewardship, Family, Community, Sustainability, and Inclusion.   

And we’ve been recognized as a top firm to work for by companies like Forbes, Top Workplaces Chicago Tribune, and Consulting Magazine.   We’ve earned a Great Place to Work Certification™ and been named a World’s Best Management Consulting Firm by Forbes, Vault’s Top 50 Firms to Work For, Crain's Chicago Business Fast 50, Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Firms, and Consulting Magazine's Fastest Growing Firms.   

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