Volunteer Cloud Architect - vacante remota

La empresa Solution Community busca cubrir el puesto de Volunteer Cloud Architect. La vacante pertenece al área de IT y programación y es totalmente remota. La empresa no pone ninguna restricción sobre el lugar de residencia, así que usted puede postular desde donde vive.

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About this Role: Cloud Architect Location: Remote Commitment: Part-time (volunteer, pro bono role) Contribution Requirements: Minimum 10 hours per week; minimum 3-6 months. Professional Volunteering : is skills‑based service performed with the same reliability, accountability, and quality expected in a paid professional role. Volunteers are core contributors whose work directly supports our mission of global compassion, collaboration, and action. About Solution Community : an international 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, pioneering an innovative social platform dedicated to enabling actionable change. With volunteers from over 70 countries, we demonstrate the power of global collaboration. Our team members bring experiences from some of the world's most successful companies, including Apple, Toyota, Google, Netflix, Walmart, Meta, and many others, creating a rich tapestry of knowledge and passion. Our Mission: To foster a global community of compassion, uniting individuals and organizations to solve the world's social problems. We bridge non-profits, businesses, philanthropists, and volunteers, empowering them to create meaningful change for current and future generations. Our Vision: Imagine a world where every person has the opportunity to thrive - a world united by collaboration, compassion, and action. At Solution Community , we are turning that vision into reality, driving transformative change that reshapes the future. Position Summary: Solution Community seeks a Volunteer Cloud Architect to design, modernize, and scale the organization's cloud infrastructure, platforms, data environments, and AI-enabled services. This role will provide technical leadership for cloud strategy, architecture governance, security, reliability, automation, and platform engineering practices across multiple initiatives. The ideal candidate combines deep cloud architecture expertise with hands-on experience designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions while collaborating with engineering, AI, DevOps, product, and business stakeholders. Key Responsibilities

* Define and maintain Solution Community 's cloud architecture strategy and roadmap.

* Design secure, highly available, and scalable cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.

* Establish cloud architecture standards, governance processes, and best practices.

* Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.

* Design and optimize multi-tier applications, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.

* Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and managed cloud services.

* Create infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.

* Partner with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and platform reliability.

* Design security architecture incorporating IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, compliance controls, and monitoring.

* Optimize cloud spending and resource utilization.

* Support AI, machine learning, analytics, and data platform initiatives from an infrastructure and architecture perspective.

* Mentor engineers and help develop cloud engineering capabilities across volunteer teams.

Preferred Qualifications

* 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or solution architecture.

* Experience architecting and operating production workloads in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

* Strong understanding of distributed systems, high availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.

* Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and cloud-native technologies.

* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, ARM/Bicep, etc.).

* Deep knowledge of networking, security architecture, identity management, and observability practices.

* Experience designing CI/CD and DevSecOps solutions.

* Strong understanding of application architecture, APIs, integrations, and platform modernization.

* Experience collaborating with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

* Excellent communication and technical leadership skills.

Nice-to-Have

* Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.

* Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and data engineering workloads.

* Background in enterprise architecture or platform strategy.

* Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.

* Open-source leadership or volunteer experience.

Impact The Volunteer Cloud Architect will play a strategic role in building the foundation that enables Solution Community 's engineering, AI, data, and product teams to innovate rapidly while maintaining scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence. Originally posted on Himalayas