Platform Architect

Aura Sub, LLC has an opening for a Platform Architect out of Boston, Massachusetts.

Job Duties:

• Design, document, and drive the architectural vision and strategy for backend services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security and alignment with business goals. 
• Define and govern technical standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud infrastructure and application development. Serve as a technical expert for the AWS serverless ecosystem, including Lambda functions, API Gateways, managed databases (e.g., DynamoDB/RDS), and CloudWatch.
• Develop, maintain, and evolve the platform's infrastructure using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with a focus on reusable modules and automation.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies using tools such as GitHub Actions to automate the software development lifecycle for both infrastructure and application code.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and accountability. 
• Provide technical guidance and consultation on complex design challenges, performance tuning, and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of new technologies and platform capabilities, ensuring a smooth transition for development teams. 
• Establish and enforce best practices for platform monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Ensure the platform adheres to security, compliance, and cost-management policies.
• This position is 100% remote; may work from home. 

Qualifications:

• Must possess at least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Computer Science or a related field and at least 5 years of progressive experience as a Software Engineer Lead/ Manager or in a related role managing software engineers/development teams. 
• At least 5 years of experience providing software engineering technical leadership
• At least 5 years of experience working with regulated data, information security and privacy requirements
• At least 5 years of experience leading international teams
• At least 5 years of experience working with AWS, including AWS management/containers, serverless architecture, Lambda functions, managed databases, API Gateways and CloudWatch
• At least 5 years of experience working with Terraform to define and managing Cloud infrastructure
• At least 3 years of experience with GitHub Actions or similar automated build and deploy tools tied to the software development lifecycle that control both infrastructure and software
• At least 2 years of experience with data warehouse tools/systems (Databricks or Snowflake).

 

The salary range for this position is from $238,285 to 316,000 per year.  To apply send your resume to hr@aura.com, and reference Job Code A626W