Senior Cloud Operations & Architect

Senior Cloud Operations & Architect

ASP is seeking a Senior Cloud Operations & Architect to provide strategic leadership and hands-on operational support across ASP's product security, R&D, and infrastructure AWS clouds. Reporting directly to the Chief Information Security Officer, this role will be instrumental in shaping and maturing ASP's cloud capabilities.

The primary focus areas include cloud cost optimization, security architecture and enforcement, and cloud infrastructure design and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Cost Optimization: Monitor and optimize AWS usage and spend across environments.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS environments for internal enterprise environment & customer-facing SaaS applications.
• Operations Oversight: Lead incident, request, change, and problem management processes to ensure service reliability and compliance.
• Disaster Recovery: Architect and execute AWS-based disaster recovery strategies, including automated failovers and fallbacks.
• Security & Access Control: Enforce IAM policies to ensure staff access is limited to required AWS resources only.
• Lifecycle & Technical Debt: Drive lifecycle management and eliminate legacy infrastructure and technical debt.
• Automation & Monitoring: Implement infrastructure-as-code and automated workflows; ensure logging and monitoring via CloudTrail and CloudWatch.

Our Needs:

• 5+ years of cloud operations experience.
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a demonstrable ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate actions.
• Thorough, detail-oriented and quality-driven with superb communication and interpersonal skills.
• Relevant industry training and/or certification preferred.
• Able to deliver quality results in a high-energy/high-pressure environment.
• Ability to multi-task and handle demands of many projects, issues, and tasks.
• Ability to perform duties with minimal supervision
• Proven experience in cloud architecture and operations for SaaS platforms.
• Strong understanding of AWS security frameworks and least privilege access models.
• Ability to automate infrastructure and operational tasks using modern DevOps tools.
• Skilled in cost analysis and optimization across multi-account AWS environments.
• Experience facilitating DR drills and recovery testing.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally to enable secure and efficient cloud usage by other teams.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills to support operational transparency and audit readiness.

Tools and Capabilities:

• AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Route 53, VPC, EBS, EKS/ECS.
• DevOps & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines (Linux & Windows).
• Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SolarWinds.
• Security & Compliance: AWS Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM best practices.
• ITSM Platforms: ServiceNow for managing ITIL processes.
• Disaster Recovery Tools: AWS Backup, Warm Standby, Multi-region failover strategies.