Cloud Architect
Company: Pulumi
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 8, 2025
Job Description:
We are looking for a passionate Pulumi Cloud Architect to bring
Pulumi's cloud programming model to the world. You will be a part
of realizing a vision where every developer can program the
cloud.As an early member of our Professional Services team, you
will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, customized
solutions to our customers, leveraging the power of Pulumi
alongside various cloud providers. Your primary responsibility will
be to collaborate closely with a strategic customer to understand
their infrastructure needs, design tailored solutions, and
implement them effectively using Pulumi's cutting-edge technology.
This is a customer-facing engineering role, where your
contributions to customer engagements will quickly establish and
underpin reference architectures and cloud best practices. By
leveraging Pulumi's infrastructure as code (IaC) approach,
organizations can streamline the migration process, automate
infrastructure provisioning, elevate security and achieve greater
agility and scalability in the cloud. You will help transform
organizations with modern applications, data and AI powered
capabilities. Our Professional Services team is focused on helping
our customers rapidly execute and optimize their usage of Pulumi
across all of their cloud projects and teams.Expect to be
challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with a world class team
of great people.Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA. This role
is 100% remote within the U.S. We are committed to our remote
workforce and building a cohesive team.In This Job You Will:
- Demonstrate curiosity, creativity, acumen and technical
excellence as the lead Pulumi technical resource in complex cloud
engineering projects with one of Pulumi's largest and most
strategic customers.
- Engage with a strategic customer to understand their
infrastructure requirements and business objectives.
- Design, architect, and implement Pulumi-based solutions that
meet customers' specific needs and industry best practices.
- Learn and be responsible for deliverables and reference
architectures spanning programming languages, infrastructure
providers, and open source and commercial cloud services.
- Act as a trusted advisor and an extension of some of the most
sophisticated cloud and platform engineering teams in the
world.
- Be a Subject Matter Expert in a specific domain related to
DevSecOps, cloud providers, development best practices and/or
solutions architecture.
- Provide timely, responsive and collaborative engagement with
your assigned accounts; coordinating with distributed teams to
accomplish asynchronous objectives and tasks.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to Pulumi
implementations, AWS, Azure, or GCP services, and Kubernetes.To Be
Successful In This Role, You Have:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development for
cloud infrastructure or related functions involving scoping,
prioritizing and managing cloud architecture and engineering
deliverables.
- Strong proficiency software engineering fundamentals including
clean and concise code, writing documentation, refactoring, test
driven development. We deliver projects working in Python,
TypeScript, Go, C#, and Java, so you should be comfortable with at
least two of these and willing to learn others.
- Deep familiarity with core web infrastructure, application
modernization and software development best practices, Open Source
technologies, cloud security, public and private cloud
platforms.
- Experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure with
Pulumi, Terraform, Cloudformation and/or similar technologies.
- Strong proficiency in Azure, AWS or GCP services including
compute, networking, storage, and security.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster
deployment, configuration, and management.
- Experience with consulting and project delivery management
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple
projects simultaneously.
- Strong team collaboration skills, problem solving skills, and
critical thinking.Compensation:
- Base Salary Hiring Range: $155,000 - $195,000
- This role will include a 20% commission/variable along with
base salary.
- All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary,
bonus/variable/commission, equity and benefits (details below).
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Keywords: Pulumi, Washington DC , Cloud Architect, Professions , Washington, DC
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