Senior Cloud Architect

Kayana is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Engineering Leader with significant hands-on experience in designing, delivering, and maintaining scalable, secure, high-performance, and cost-efficient cloud-native solutions across the organization. The role is critical in shaping Kayana's digital ecosystem that integrates systems, productizes data/services, and streamlines processes across various entities within and outside the organization. As a cloud engineering leader, you will collaborate closely with business, product, and engineering teams to translate objectives into end-to-end delivery of cloud-native solutions and ensure it meets performance, security, and compliance requirements.

• Design, implement, and own organization's cloud architectures across PaaS, SaaS models and various API- and data-driven technology stack, defining cloud-native patterns.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of cloud solutions within organization's platforms.
• Lead the implementation of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) using tools like Terraform/CF, standardizing reusable modules and enforcing best practices.
• Integrate cloud infrastructure with various DevOps tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Define performance metrics and implement monitoring solutions from Infra layer all the way up to Application/Product layer.
• Ensure secure configurations, encryptions, access management, and compliance regulations whilst also performing regular security reviews and audits.
• Maintain and optimize cloud environments and implement autoscaling, serverless, and managed services to improve efficiency and reduce operational overhead.
• Contribute to organization's monetization initiatives via AWS analytics, dashboards, logs, tags.
• Collaborate with application owners, data architects, security teams, governance teams, business stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure solution meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Provide technical leadership in the selection, implementation and optimization of cloud-native solutions.
• Establish observability practices and tools for tracking, logging, auditing, and improving platform reliability and performance.
• Provide subject matter expertise during changes, incidents, root cause analysis related to failures and performance issues.
• Keep updated of emerging cloud technologies and tools, evaluating and implementing them where they can deliver strategic advantage.
• Identify opportunities for harnessing/innovation in cloud platform / infrastructure and automation.
• Support and upskill internal cloud engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on problem solving.
• Coach and mentor junior to mid-level engineers, creating high-performing engineering culture.

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, architecture, and/or infrastructure roles.
• Proven and validated experience in designing, building, and managing cloud-native solutions and cloud architectures (AWS primarily).
• Background in enterprise-grade systems and automation at scale.
• Multiple cross-functional team collaboration in varying size and cloud maturity.
• Prior experience in a lead and architect capacity, including technical leadership and decision making.
• Start-up experience is a plus.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team driving innovation and transformation in the industry. You will have the chance to work on cutting-edge projects, develop your skills, and contribute to the success of the organization.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, stock options, medical insurance, retirement plan, and generous paid time off. Our company values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive work environment.