Principal Cloud Architect

(remote)

Mirador is a next-generation precision medicine company focused on immunology and inflammation. The company’s Mirador360 ^TM precision development engine leverages the latest advances in human genetics and cutting-edge data science to rapidly advance new precision medicines for patients living with chronic immune-mediated inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. Launched in 2024, Mirador has raised over $400 million from leading life sciences investors and is based in San Diego, CA.

Summary 

As Principal Cloud Architect you will drive the delivery of world-class cloud solutions based on the AWS platform for Information Technology and will be responsible for delivering solutions that accelerate the delivery of Precision Bioinformatics and Biostatistics work for the company.  Take a lead role in defining and promoting the architecture direction and governance for cloud strategy and initiatives.

 You will be challenged to find approaches that enable rapid adoption of new cloud services and drive transformation for our business and IT processes.  Act as a liaison and consultant on best practices, principles and processes required to leverage best in class cloud capabilities and technologies.  Partner with a platform vendor to drive execution and adhere to timelines as prioritized with internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities 

• Partnering with business-lead teams and successfully leading the design of AWS cloud computing solutions, responsible for the architecture, confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resiliency of this environment.
• Responsible for the planning, execution, and refinement of the cloud platform strategy.
• Formulates architecture, establishes governance, manages cloud provider.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cloud security risk and lead implementation of solutions.
• Provide operational assistance to support the larger needs of the organization.
• Ensure that cloud solutions follow governance, security, and compliance controls, as well as best practices.
• Remediate cybersecurity vulnerabilities as identified.
• Implement Identity and Access Management solutions.
• Implement backup, DR, and business continuity processes.
• Implement high availability architecture.
• Implement AWS cost management controls.

Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems and/or professional relevant experience and accomplishments
• 8 years of experience in the IT field
• Cloud certifications from Amazon Web Services
• 3 years of experience with infrastructure as code design (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
• 3 years of engineering experience on a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
• Understanding of Scrum Agile methodology and have worked on a Scrum team
• Foundational understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms and understand how to use them together to build solutions
• Design and deliver well-architected cloud solutions based on business requirements
• 3 years of experience implementing infrastructure as code
• Knowledge of networking, firewalls, load balancers etc.
• Knowledge of best practices for IT operations in an always-on, always-available service model
• Experience working with external cloud-vendors and internal stakeholders to refine deliverables and timelines along organizational priorities

 Additional Experience – Nice-to-haves

• Biotech / Data Science experience
• Experience with Agile software development
• Experience deploying, managing, operating workloads in AWS cloud infrastructure
• Experience implementing security controls and compliance requirements
• Experience with Netskope Private Access
• Experience with Terraform

Skills and Abilities  

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately with corporate executives and technical teams
• Excellent influencing and reasoning skills; good at conflict resolution and consensus building
• Self-motivated with excellent planning, problem-solving and organizational
• The ability to engage constructively with peers and technical lead to communicate the technical approach, trade-offs, and technical decisions
• Entrepreneurial, enjoys working in a fast-paced, smaller-company environment

The expected base pay range for this position is $150,000 – $225,000 plus bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The base pay range reflects the target range for this position, but individual pay will be determined by additional factors such as job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training. This range may be modified in the future.

All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected class.