The Technical Cloud Architect designs, builds, and governs cloud platforms that actually work at scale this role owns cloud architecture end-to-end: infrastructure, networking, security, automation, and reliability. You’re not drawing diagrams for PowerPoint — you’re accountable for platforms running in production , this role sits between engineering, operations, and leadership and is expected to make hard technical decisions, defend them, and execute.
Key Responsibilities :
Architecture & Design
Design private, public, or hybrid cloud platforms (VMware, CloudStack, OpenStack, Kubernetes-based).
Define reference architectures for compute, storage, networking, and security.
Own multi-AZ, HA, and DR designs — no single points of failure.
Standardize platform components.
Infrastructure & Platforms
• Architect and optimize:
Virtualization (VMware, KVM, CloudStack)
Containers (Kubernetes, OpenShift, managed or self-hosted)
Storage (SAN, object, distributed storage like Ceph, Pure, PowerStore)
Networking (L2/L3, BGP, EVPN, SDN, load balancing)
Drive performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Automation & IaC
Enforce Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Helm).
Define Git-based workflows (GitOps where applicable).
Eliminate manual provisioning wherever possible.
Security & Governance
Embed security by design:
IAM, RBAC, network segmentation
Secrets management (Vault, Bitwarden, KMS)
Compliance, audit, and hardening standards
Define guardrails, not bottlenecks.
Reliability & Operations
Design for observability:
Monitoring (Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana)
Logging (ELK, Loki)
Alerting that doesn’t spam
Define SLOs, SLAs, and capacity models.
Support incident reviews and root-cause analysis — no blame, only fixes.
Leadership & Enablement
Act as technical authority for cloud decisions.
Review and approve designs from engineers and vendors.
Mentor platform, SRE, and infrastructure teams.
Push back on bad ideas — even from management.
Required Skills & Experience
Core Technical Skills
Strong Linux fundamentals.
Deep understanding of:
Virtualization and cloud platforms
Networking (routing, switching, load balancing)
Storage architectures
Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
Solid automation and scripting skills.
Requirements
7+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering.
Proven experience designing production-grade cloud platforms.
Experience operating large-scale systems.
Top Skills
What We Do
EarthLink Telecommunication started in 2005 as an Internet service provider. Within just a few years, EarthLink has become the largest Internet service provider in Iraq. We serve every city and town in Iraq, as well as several major cities around the world. EarthLink is not just an Internet service provider; we provide ICT solutions, data center services, managed services to business and government organizations in Iraq, and much more.
