Cloud Architect

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).