ZoomInfo

Principal Cloud Architect

ZoomInfo • $157K — $247K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New York, US
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10-15 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or data architecture.
  • Proven ability to establish technical direction for large-scale systems across multiple teams.
  • Production familiarity with major cloud providers, ideally GCP and AWS.
  • Strong skills in Terraform and GitOps workflows for Infrastructure as Code implementations.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and understanding of cloud-native networking.

Responsibilities

  • Prototype platform design patterns and enable implementation teams through hands-on guidance.
  • Participate in weekly architecture reviews to provide consistent, documented architectural guidance.
  • Own architectural stewardship in cloud infrastructure or data architecture specialty areas.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and drive standards for their onboarding and phase-out.
  • Enable R&D teams by conducting design reviews and making architecture patterns user-friendly.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Holistic mind, body, and lifestyle programs for well-being.
  • Support programs for employee growth and development.
  • Generous parental leave and family benefits.
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Prototype and Hand Off: Design platform patterns end-to-end-build reference implementations, document the rationale, and partner with implementation teams to roll them out. Stay hands-on through proof-of-concept and initial enablement, writing reference implementations and opening PRs to jumpstart team adoption.
  • Participate in Architecture Review: Bring a consistent, documented rubric to weekly architecture reviews so teams get reliable guidance. Expand our standards library and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
  • Own a Domain Specialty: Provide architectural stewardship in one of our focus areas:
  • Cloud Infrastructure Architecture: Own the architecture for our cloud runtime, networking, service mesh, container platforms, and overall infrastructure scalability, resilience, and security.
  • Data Architecture: Own event streaming/messaging, database technology strategy, pipeline patterns, warehouse, and lakehouse strategies.
  • Define Technology Lifecycle: Evaluate emerging technologies through structured POCs, drive standards for onboarding and phase-out, and lead evaluations of vendor changes and consolidation opportunities. Partner with FinOps on cost optimization in your depth area, including emerging AI/model infrastructure spend (e.g., evaluating open-weight models as a lower-cost alternative to hosted APIs).
  • Enable R&D Teams: Host design reviews and workshops. Serve as a technical consultant to engineering teams making complex infrastructure choices. Make patterns consumable and self-service so teams don't reinvent the wheel.
  • Shape Multi-Year Strategy: Contribute to the multi-year platform direction-developer experience, delivery pipelines, and AI-augmented architecture review tooling (e.g., MCP servers, LLM-based rubric evaluation)-in partnership with platform engineering teams.
What We're Looking For
  • Broad Infrastructure Architecture Experience: Proven track record of setting technical direction across large-scale systems many teams depend on-cloud, networking, data, or delivery. Ability to defend architectural choices against real production workloads.
  • Multi-Cloud & Kubernetes Fluency: Production experience with GCP and/or AWS, paired with solid understanding of trade-offs. Practical experience with Kubernetes (GKE or equivalent) as the runtime foundation for modern workloads.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Strong proficiency in Terraform, GitOps workflows, and designing/reviewing reusable modules that other teams depend on.
  • Depth in At Least One Domain (Nice to Have More):
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud-native networking (AWS transit patterns, GCP shared VPCs, Private Service Connect, VPC peering); Kubernetes/container orchestration (GKE or equivalent) and service mesh (Istio) and mTLS; designing for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency; ensuring infrastructure and network security.
  • Data Architecture: Messaging platforms (Kafka/Confluent, Pub/Sub); database technology fluency across SQL (PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), columnar analytics (Snowflake, BigQuery), and search (Solr, Elasticsearch); pipeline design (Dataflow, Cloud Composer, MSK, Kinesis); open table formats (Apache Iceberg).
  • Development & Operational Depth: Ability to dive into code to prove out patterns and evaluate system behavior under load (incidents, on-call impact, capacity, rollout blast radius). Comfortable shipping working prototypes rather than relying solely on high-level diagrams.
  • Influence & Leadership: Strong technical leadership, writing, and presentation skills. Track record of driving standards adoption across engineering organizations without formal managerial authority-through documented rationale, prototypes, workshops, and review processes.
  • Technology Evaluation: Demonstrated ability to run rigorous technology evaluations-separating vendor pitch from architectural fit, running POCs, and producing actionable recommendations for engineering leaders.
  • AI Infrastructure Fluency: Working knowledge of the infrastructure demands of AI/ML workloads (model serving, vector databases, inference cost and latency trade-offs); able to weigh in on where AI fits into the platform's technical roadmap.
Bonus Points
  • Depth in both Cloud Infrastructure and Data Infrastructure domains.
  • Experience with GCP organization-level policies, folder structure, and IAM inheritance design.
  • Confluent Platform knowledge beyond core Kafka (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB).
  • Experience running or participating in an Architecture Review Council or equivalent governance body.
  • Hands-on experience building or applying AI-augmented architecture review workflows (e.g., MCP servers, LLM-based rubric evaluation).
  • MLOps tooling experience (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI Pipelines, SageMaker).
Education and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10-15+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or data architecture experience.


Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate's work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range for your desired work location during the hiring process. We want our employees and their families to thrive.

In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.

Below is the US base salary for this position. Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply.

$157,500-$247,500 USD

About ZoomInfo

About ZoomInfo

A Leader in B2B Data

ZoomInfo has revolutionized how businesses access B2B data since its inception in 2000. With a rich database encompassing over 14 million companies and 120 million professionals, ZoomInfo stands as a pivotal resource for sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development professionals worldwide.

Headquarters and Global Reach

Based in Vancouver, Washington, ZoomInfo's influence spans globally, aiding countless professionals in navigating the complex business landscape with ease and precision.

Career Opportunities at ZoomInfo

A Spectrum of Roles

ZoomInfo's commitment to innovation and customer success fuels a wide range of career opportunities, from technical positions to sales and marketing roles.

Why Choose ZoomInfo

Working at ZoomInfo means being part of a team dedicated to excellence, innovation, and the democratization of B2B data.

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Your Path to ZoomInfo

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Skills That Shine

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Employee Benefits and Perks

Rewarding Your Contribution

ZoomInfo values its team, offering a comprehensive benefits package designed to support and enrich the lives of its employees.

Beyond the Basics

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Investing in Your Growth

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Learn more about ZoomInfo
Size
2,742 employees
Market Cap
$11.5 billion
Industry
Information Technology
Net Income
-$9.1 million
Founded
2000
Revenue
$476.2 million
NASDAQ
ZI
* Ladders Estimates

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