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About the Role

Drive cloud infrastructure strategy, including cloud connectivity, automating cloud landing zones, and overall cloud platform management. Partner with key stakeholders across the enterprise to execute strategy and work with senior leaders to define strategy.

Responsibilities

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements
Lead the adoption and responsible use of emerging AI and automation capabilities to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of cloud platforms and engineering workflows

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
At least 6 years of experience in cloud engineering
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
12+ years of experience in coding with at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
8+ years of experience in CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Crossplane), and Automated Governance using Policy-as-Code DSLs (e.g. OPA)
One or more active certifications related to cloud infrastructure management or security
Experience in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)
Experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security and identity integrations
Experience troubleshooting and supporting production cloud environments
Experience influencing technology strategy at the portfolio or business unit level
Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic technical programs spanning multiple domains
Experience defining and tracking engineering OKRs that align to business outcomes
Experience shaping organization design and talent strategy for scaling engineering capabilities
Experience with strategic and executive-level communication to influence technology decisions within the organization
Experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
Experience acting as a leader of leaders and driving professional development within technical teams
Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges.
Experience with risk management and operational excellence within high risk/high severity incident environment
Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
Experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards

Skills

Cloud Strategy
Cloud Connectivity
Automating Cloud Landing Zones
Cloud Platform Management
Technical Vision
Problem Decomposition
Technical Design
Implementation
Non-functional System Characteristics (Performance, Scalability, Operability)
Advanced Technical Knowledge
Modernization of Monolithic Systems
Microservice Architectures
Event-Driven Platforms
API Standards
AI and Automation Capabilities
Scalability
Reliability
Efficiency
Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
CI/CD Orchestration
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Crossplane)
Policy-as-Code (OPA)
Cloud-Native Architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)
Cloud Networking
Security Integrations
Identity Integrations
Risk Management
Operational Excellence
Agentic AI Coding Tools

Location

McLean, VA
New York, NY
Plano, TX
Richmond, VA
San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Sr. Staff
9 years of experience in software engineering
6 years of experience in cloud engineering
12+ years of experience in coding
8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms
8+ years of experience in CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks, and Automated Governance using Policy-as-Code DSLs
Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic technical programs
Experience acting as a leader of leaders
Experience mentoring senior engineers

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Salary/Compensations

McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300
New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000
Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700
Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700
San Francisco, CA: $343,400 - $392,000

Benefits

Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

About the Company

Capital One is a group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs.
Cloud Foundations is focused on delivering scalable, secure and flexible cloud infrastructure solutions.
We are the bedrock for Capital One, supporting all of our applications and critical systems.
We drive the standard patterns and capabilities for cloud infrastructure, delivering those patterns through automated, API-first solutions.
Our goal is to provide fully managed infrastructure that can be stood up in real time, delivering on the needs of our customers now and in the future.

Equal Opportunity

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.
Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.