Platform Infrastructure Principal Architect
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AccelaGovTech SaaS
Remote Based - USFull-TimePrincipal
Salary$175,000-$185,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems; 5+ years of experience in a Principal Architect, Staff Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role within a SaaS environment.
- Required Skills
- KubernetesMicrosoft AzureDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- 5+ years of experience in a Principal Architect, Staff Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role within a SaaS environment.
- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure (AKS, APIM, networking, identity, security, and infrastructure services).
- Strong Kubernetes architecture experience (workload design, multi-tenancy, RBAC, GitOps, platform operations).
- Experience architecting and operating large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams without direct management authority.
- Experience working within regulated environments (FedRAMP, GovRAMP, PCI-DSS, or SOC2).
- Strong communication skills with experience influencing stakeholders at multiple levels.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture for cloud platform including Azure infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, identity, security, and platform services.
- Define and maintain platform architecture standards, reference patterns, and technical guardrails.
- Lead architecture reviews and drive technical decision-making through the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) process.
- Develop long-term technical strategy for modernization initiatives, cloud-native transformation, and infrastructure evolution.
- Establish architectural approaches for multi-tenant SaaS environments including tenant isolation, observability, and data residency.
- Translate compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, GovRAMP, PCI-DSS, and SOC2 into platform controls.
- Govern architecture exceptions and provide guidance on complex technical trade-offs.
- Mentor and coach senior engineers, staff engineers, and architects.
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