Technical Architect/Cloud Architect
Turing • Remote
Education
Master's
Type
Hourly
Pay
$30-65/hr est.
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About this role
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Role OverviewWe are looking for a highly skilled Technical Architect / Cloud Architect to design, build, and scale secure, multi-cloud distributed systems. This role requires deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, networking, and modern platform engineering practices.You will drive architecture decisions, enforce best practices, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure systems.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and implement cloud-native, multi-cloud architectures (AWS / Azure / GCP)Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and platform engineering standardsArchitect and manage Kubernetes-based platforms (EKS / AKS / GKE)Lead networking design including VPCs, security groups, service mesh, and eBPF-based observabilityImplement zero-trust security models and policy enforcement across systemsDrive observability strategy (metrics, logs, traces) across distributed systemsDesign scalable data architectures (OLTP, caching, distributed databases)
- Define and govern API architecture standards (REST, async, event-driven)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Security, Backend, Data)
- Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making Key ResponsibilitiesArchitect multi-cloud, cloud-native systemsLead Kubernetes platform design (EKS/AKS/GKE)Define IaC standards (Terraform/OpenTofu, Crossplane)Design secure networking & zero-trust architecturesImplement observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana stack)
- Drive API & event-driven architecture standards
- Mentor teams and guide technical decisions Must-Have Skills
- Terraform/OpenTofu, Crossplane
- Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize
- Cilium (eBPF), VPC & networking design
- Kyverno, Zero Trust security
- OpenTelemetry, Grafana (Loki, Tempo, Mimir)
- PostgreSQL/Aurora, Redis, S3
- REST/OpenAPI, event-driven systems Nice to Have
- Pulumi, Istio, OPA/Gatekeeper
- gRPC, MCP/A2A
- pgvector, YugabyteDB
- Datadog, eBPF instrumentation
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Across 28 Turing Software Engineering listings we've tracked, contracts typically run about 8.4 weeks. Length varies by project.
Why this role
This Technical Architect/Cloud Architect role covers designing and scaling secure, multi-cloud distributed systems, with deep Kubernetes, networking, and platform engineering work at the center of it. You'll make real architecture decisions and enforce engineering best practices across live systems.
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