Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide a full-range of AWS services including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and everything in between.
At Caylent, our people always come first. We are a global company and operate fully remote with employees in Canada, the United States, and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!
The Mission
We are seeking a talented Principal Architect to join our growing Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. The right candidate is someone who has deep expertise building a variety of cloud solutions and is passionate about working with our customers, partners, and employees to drive the business forward. Your mission will be to work alongside Caylent’s Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Engagement Managers to deliver AWS cloud solutions across our diverse and innovative customer base. As a Principal Architect, you will be working with Caylent’s most strategic enterprise customers, leveraging the latest technologies to help disruptive organizations bring innovative ideas to market. In addition, this person will be expected to mentor and develop junior and mid-level architects, contribute to practice-building initiatives, and potentially own and shape the networking technology domain within the consultancy.
Your Assignment
- Be a thought leader in crafting solutions, reference architectures and best practices.
- Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where your expertise is required to propose solutions to lay the foundations for cloud architecture, scaling, development opportunities, cost savings, and vulnerabilities
- Design, develop and integrate highly complex DevOps pipelines, including build automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), security, monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Kickoff new client engagements
- Take on work already in-line with projects and deliverables and research new projects (R&D)
- Develop long range plans with customer to adopt cloud best practices
- Ensure high quality of project delivery
Your Qualifications
- 8-10+ Years of experience working as a Network Architect for Enterprise organizations in a consulting capacity
- Ability to communicate technical objectives and solutions clearly to clients while establishing and cultivating a professional relationship
- Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders
- Strong expertise building networks and using the following technologies: AWS Cloud WAN, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect Gateway, MPLS, BGP, Site-2-Site VPN, IPAM, CDN.
- Familiarity with modern Firewalls e.g. Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortigate
- Strong hands-on AWS Environment and Serverless Environment
- Experience Designing and implementing inter and intra-region high availability solutions
- Experience implementing IaC in AWS
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Enthusiasm for engaging across diverse client environments
- Possess a natural curiosity and excitement for learning new technology– from high-growth startups to large-scale enterprises – and the ability to work cross-functionally within each
- Prior presales or solutions scoping experience
- Cloud Security Best Practices
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a some of the following:
○ Migrations
○ CICD
○ IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Pulumi, etc)
○ Scripting
○ Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Fargate, etc)
○ Experience working on agile projects
○ Incident, release, problem and change management processes
- Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
- 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
- Competitive phantom equity
- Company-issued laptop
- Dental and Vision insurance
- Term Disability Insurance
- Term Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Equipment & Office Stipend
- Annual stipend for Learning and Development
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 10 Paid Holidays
Base Salary Range: The expected base salary range for this position is $165,000 - $185,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Additional Compensation Components: In addition to the base salary, the compensation package may include bonuses, commissions, equity, and other incentives. The specific components will vary depending on the role, the individual, and/or the company's performance.
This role may require up to 25% travel, depending on business needs.
NOTE: We’re unable to provide visa sponsorship now or at any time in the future.
At Caylent, we are committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. As part of our recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools or automated systems to assist with the screening and evaluation of applications to help match candidate qualifications with job requirements.
These tools are designed to support — not replace — human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are always made by our trained recruitment professionals.
If an AI or automated tool is used during your application process, it will only be in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, and your information will be handled in a secure and confidential manner.
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]
Caylent is a place where everyone belongs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at Caylent.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].Top Skills
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