As a Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based solutions for our organization. You will work closely with our technical and business teams to understand their requirements, analyze the current infrastructure, and recommend cloud-based solutions that align with our organizational goals.
Your role will involve collaborating with the technical teams to develop cloud-based architectures, strategies, and roadmaps, creating, and maintaining documentation, and working with vendors and partners to identify suitable solutions. You will also be responsible for identifying and addressing security risks and ensuring that our cloud infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and performant. This role will be an in-office work setting located in our Kansas City World Headquarters office.
The Cloud Architect will be responsible for the following activities and functions:

Design and develop cloud-based architectures that meet our technical and business requirements in a multi-cloud environment.Work with technical teams to develop cloud migration strategies and plans.Provide guidance and support to technical teams during the implementation of cloud solutions by jointly collaborating with business teams on design, onboarding and migration of applications and solutions ensuring proper fitment, adherence to design principles, cost effectiveness and meeting the required security and compliance.Design and implement consistent cloud landing zone concepts for shared platform services and dev, test, prod environments with associated policy driven infrastructure.Develop and maintain cloud-based documentation, including architecture diagrams, policies and procedures, and training materials.Work with vendors and partners to identify suitable cloud-based solutions.Design, enforce and monitor proper identity and access management (IAM) solutions and security/compliance controls in alignment with Information Security requirements.Identify and address security risks and ensure that our cloud infrastructure is secure.Monitor and optimize cloud-based infrastructure for performance and cost, identify bottlenecks, and optimize system architecture for maximum efficiency and availability.Implement monitoring and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify and resolve performance issues.Work with technical teams to resolve issues and ensure that our cloud infrastructure is highly available and reliable.Stay up-to-date with cloud-based technologies and recommend improvements to our infrastructure.Collaborate with technical and business teams to ensure that our cloud-based solutions align with our organizational goals.Provide recommendations for cost optimization, such as rightsizing instances, leveraging reserved instances, or implementing auto-scaling capabilities for contribution to FinOps practices.Assist, enable and educate cloud consumers in best practices.Co-develop/participate in cloud governance practices like architectural review boards and cloud center of excellence programs.Conduct cloud well architected reviews for cloud applications and solutions.