Cloud-Native Architect

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. Job Title: Cloud-Native Architect Location: 100% Remote (U.S.) Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2 Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually Experience Required: 6+ years Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. Job Summary We are seeking a seasoned Cloud-Native Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native technology stacks. Key Responsibilities Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles. Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into well-bounded, independently deployable services with clear ownership. Design service communication patterns leveraging REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming as appropriate. Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning strategies that enable safe evolution of services over time. Architect resilient distributed systems incorporating circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation patterns. Define data ownership models, transactional boundaries, and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate. Lead the design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and shared observability. Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains. Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards optimized for high-frequency, low-risk service releases. Define observability standards incl