Cloud Architect – AWS (Enterprise)

MerQube is a fintech firm building advanced technology for indexing and rules-based investing. We are looking for an Enterprise Cloud Architect (AWS) with deep organizational experience designing and governing large-scale AWS environments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Proven enterprise AWS experience operating large, multi-team, multi-account environments
• Deep expertise in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, including reliability, security, and cost optimization pillars
• Strong understanding of AWS networking at scale (VPC architectures, routing models, load balancing, private services, endpoint strategies)
• Experience architecting ETL and data processing platforms on AWS
• Familiarity with data orchestration and pipeline patterns (batch and streaming)
• Strong experience designing observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) at enterprise scale
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and monitoring strategies for mission-critical systems
• Proven experience designing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions with defined RTO/RPO
• Experience driving cost optimization and FinOps initiatives at an architectural level
• Hands-on experience with EKS, Kubernetes, and container observability concepts
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Solid knowledge of cloud security, IAM design, encryption, compliance, and audit readiness
• Ability to define long-term architecture while enabling pragmatic delivery

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Flexible working arrangements