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Senior Cloud Architect – Platforms Engineering

Xona· Engineering
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Burlingame, California$173k - $197kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Experienced Cloud Architect responsible for owning and scaling Xona’s core AWS cloud infrastructure and network topology, bridging architectural strategy with hands-on platform ownership to enable rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure Ownership: Own, evolve, and scale our AWS multi-account cloud architecture, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
  • Network Topology Design: Architect and manage complex enterprise networking topologies (VPC design, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, VPNs, and routing policies) ensuring secure segmentation and low-latency connectivity.
  • Platform & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive the standardization and automation of infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform and AWS CDK.
  • Reliability & Observability: Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to implement robust monitoring, logging, and tracing across all cloud environments using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, or AWS CloudWatch.
  • Developer Enablement: Act as an internal consultant for product engineering teams, providing self-service infrastructure templates, architectural guidance, and best practices.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in IT, with at least 4+ years specializing in cloud architecture and infrastructure engineering within AWS.
  • Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect) and hybrid cloud connectivity.
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and some knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
  • Solid understanding of container technologies and orchestration platforms, specifically Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.
  • Demonstrated experience designing secure cloud environments adhering to the Principle of Least Privilege and Zero Trust principles.
  • Experience implementing cloud cost-management frameworks, reserved instance/savings plan strategies, and granular resource tagging policies.

Skills

Required:AWS cloud architectureNetworking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK)Containerization (ECS, EKS)Security (Least Privilege, Zero Trust)
Nice to have:CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)FinOps / cost management
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Xona

Next Era Navigational Intelligence | Xona

Xona is the navigation infrastructure company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.

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