Senior Solutions Architect

Your Company: As the Nonprofit Marketing Platform trusted by over 1,300 nonprofits , Feathr is purpose-built to help our customers unlock more results, time, and confidence. Feathr's software marketing platform equips nonprofits with the tools they need to build purposeful connections with their community and grow impact with confidence. We're working on building an amazing culture at Feathr, where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you're ready to grow and "help the helpers" you've come to the right place. Senior Solutions Architect Compensation $120,000 base, and a bonus potential of up to 12% Benefits: Fully Remote, Health/ Dental/ Vision, Paid Holidays/ Vacation/ Sick time, and more! Your Work: Feathr is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect (titled internally as Sr. Platform Engineer) to join our Platform Engineering Team. In this role, you will be a core contributor to the infrastructure powering Feathr's advertising software, helping us build reliable, scalable, and well-automated systems that serve nonprofit clients. You'll work closely with software engineers, DevOps, and cross-functional stakeholders, with ownership over the infrastructure, tooling, and deployment pipelines that keep our platform running. You’ll also play a key role in the security posture of our systems, helping us build and maintain the controls, compliance frameworks, and practices that protect our platform and our clients. Your Experience: 4+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, security engineering, or a similar role, with a track record of building and shipping real code. Hands-on experience writing production-grade scripts and automation tooling in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar, in addition to configuration and deployment work. Professional experience with CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance, containerization, and cloud infrastructure. Ideally in an environment where you owned these end-to-end. Comfortable working in Linux environments (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, or similar) as a core part of your day-to-day. Experience contributing meaningfully to shared codebases, not limited to ops and config work. Familiarity with security architecture, compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO, GovRAMP, or similar), or threat modeling is a strong plus. Technical Requirements Strong cloud infrastructure experience, particularly with AWS (IAM, networking, security services, CloudFormation), with a solid understanding of how to build and manage systems at scale. Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, or similar), building reusable, well-scoped modules and standardizing patterns across environments. Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes), including deployment strategies like Blue/Green and maintaining consistent, reproducible environments. Strong CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions or similar), designing, building, and maintaining pipelines for continuous integration and smooth software delivery. Solid Linux system administration skills across major distributions. Preferred: Elasticsearch and SQL experience, particularly for operational reporting and data visibility. Preferred: Experience with Go, Python, or other systems-level languages beyond scripting. Preferred: Hands-on experience with LLM integrations, AI/ML tooling, or building guardrails for non-deterministic systems. Your Qualities: Builder mentality : You have a bias toward action and take ownership of problems from diagnosis to resolution. Technical depth : Strong problem-solving skills across infrastructure, automation, and systems domains. Detail-oriented: High standards for reliability, documentation, and operational consistency. Communicator: Able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Collaborative: Comfortable working across engineering, DevOps, and product teams with a team-first approach. Adaptable : Thrives in a fast-moving environment and handles shifting priorities without losing momentum. Your Day: Infrastructure & Cloud: Maintain and optimize cloud infrastructure, networking, and database systems to ensure high availability and performance. Build and maintain reusable IaC modules (Terraform, CloudFormation) to standardize and harden architecture across environments. Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, including Blue/Green and other deployment strategies. CI/CD & Automation Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and smooth software deployments. Develop and maintain automation tooling and scripts to reduce manual overhead and improve operational efficiency. Create and maintain clear documentation of systems, pipelines, and processes to reduce tribal knowledge risk. Technical Contributions Contribute to system architecture decisions with a focus on scalability, reliability, and efficiency. Debug and resolve complex technical issues across infrastructure and application layers. Work closely with software engineers and stakeholders to support new feature rollouts and ongoing operations. AI Enablement Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate, integrate, and operationalize AI tooling across the organization. Help establish best practices and infrastructure patterns that support AI adoption at scale. Collaboration and Support: Work closely with software engineers, DevOps, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and operational support for new features. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain consistent and reproducible development environments. Participate in incident response efforts, helping to minimize downtime and ensure quick recovery from system disruptions. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Compensation: Compensation for this position is $120,000 annually with the potential to earn an additional 12% of base salary. In addition, you’ll receive health/dental/vision insurance, and other benefits like a professional development budget, office food, and social events. Location: This role is open to remote candidates located within the United States, with a preference for those in the EST or CST time zones. There is also an option to work from our headquarters in Gainesville, FL. If you aren’t familiar, Gainesville is a hip, mid-sized city with a highly innovative population and an attainable standard of living. Interview Process: As a part of our commitment to creating a fair, equitable, and positive interview experience for all candidates, we offer full transparency of our interview stages to give applicants an idea of the time and effort involved. Additionally, each interview stage consists of standardized questions and rubrics with a scoring system to ensure a consistent and fair assessment practice of all candidates. Information Screen - The Talent Acquisition Team will invite candidates that move forward to a 20-30 minute virtual interview. This conversation will be focused on relevant work experience, compensation, role overview, and answering any questions the candidate has. Hiring Manager Interview - 45 minute virtual meeting with to answer role-specific questions and dive deeper into your background and experience. Work Assignment - Candidates will be given a work assignment prompt to complete a project that is relevant to the work they can expect in the role. You are given ample amount of time to complete this project before turning in. Panel Interview - 1 hour interview with two to three key members of the team. This interview will dive deeper into the role, technical knowledge, and requirements of the position. You will also utilize this time to review any questions related to your work assignment. Offer - The Talent Acquisition Team will reach out with the details of the offer to discuss with the candidate. Interviewing at Feathr We've prepared a comprehensive candidate resource that provides valuable insights and tips for interviewing at Feathr. It covers everything from common interview questions to helpful advice on how to make the most of your interview experience with us. Access the resource here . We encourage all applicants to take advantage of this resource to help prepare for their interviews and gain a deeper understanding of what to expect when applying to join our Flock. Benefits & Perks for full-time employees We love our Flock and the work they do! But let’s be honest, life isn’t just about work. So we created a perks and benefits package that aims to help our team grow by including their wellness, families, passions, and personal time. Fully remote Full vision, dental, and ~99% health insurance for employees Sick time off Vacation time off Extended Wintr Break Parental Leave Wellness Reimbursement Credit Home Office Stipend Professional Development Budget Team hangouts and events Culture: Feathr defines culture as the secret sauce that makes our flock members want to come to work everyday and do their best work. Like every company, we have an acronym that conveys the most important aspects of the culture we strive to have. Practicality: Progress Over Perfection Ambition: When Feathr wins, We all win Candor: Better communication, Better results Trust: Assume the best, Share openly Service: We exist to fix This acronym is only as useful as the integrity of the people who reference it and believe in it. Every person at Feathr will face challenges, the most important quality is a commitment to work through those challenges with self-awareness and honesty. Feathr is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, if you think you’d drive value in this position, please apply.