Cloud-Native Architect

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title

Cloud-Native Architect

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $130,000–$180,000 Annually (based on experience)
Experience Required: 10+ Years

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Cloud-Native Architect with 10+ years of software engineering experience, including extensive experience designing cloud-native platforms and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will lead the architecture and modernization of enterprise-scale applications using microservices, Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native technologies while driving engineering standards, platform strategy, and technical excellence across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-wide microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and domain-driven design (DDD) principles.
• Lead the modernization of legacy monolithic applications into scalable, independently deployable cloud-native services.
• Design secure, resilient, and highly available distributed systems using REST APIs, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Establish API governance, schema management, versioning strategies, and service lifecycle best practices.
• Architect resilient systems using patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, graceful degradation, Saga, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Outbox.
• Define data ownership strategies, distributed transaction models, and scalable persistence architectures.
• Design and implement cloud-native platform capabilities, including Kubernetes, service mesh, API gateways, identity management, observability, and platform automation.
• Drive performance engineering, scalability planning, capacity management, and system reliability across mission-critical services.
• Establish CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated testing, and deployment strategies for cloud-native applications.
• Define enterprise observability standards leveraging distributed tracing, centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, and SLO/SLI-based monitoring.
• Partner with security teams to implement Zero Trust architecture, secrets management, runtime security, compliance, and cloud governance.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and technology evaluations across multiple engineering organizations.
• Mentor architects, technical leads, and senior engineers while promoting cloud-native engineering best practices.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies and recommend strategic adoption based on business value and technical maturity.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience in software architecture and cloud-native solution design.
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), distributed systems, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, Docker, and cloud-native platforms.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages such as Java, Go, C#, or Python.
• Strong knowledge of API design, asynchronous messaging, event streaming technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or similar), and distributed application architecture.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, latency-sensitive production systems at enterprise scale.
• Strong expertise with at least one major cloud platform, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and technical mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and platform engineering capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, or Consul Connect.
• Knowledge of GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud governance, and enterprise cloud cost optimization.
• Public speaking, open-source leadership, published technical content, or conference presentations.
• Experience working in regulated industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Insurance, or Government.
• Cloud architecture certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.

How to Apply
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to [email protected] or contact us at (908) 505-3545. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.