Cloud & Security Architect

• Evaluate existing cloud architecture, applications, infrastructure, integration patterns, and operational capabilities across GEP; identify gaps and opportunities; and define target-state architecture and modernization roadmaps aligned to enterprise standards and business priorities.
• Lead architecture decisions across AWS, Azure, SaaS platforms, connected equipment services, APIs, data integration, and supporting enterprise technologies.
• Define reusable architecture patterns and reference designs for application hosting, integration, networking, identity, security, data movement, observability, resilience, and deployment.
• Partner with GEP Engineering, Platform, Unified IoT, Data, Security, and broader global architecture teams to ensure architecture standards are implementable, scalable, secure, cost-conscious, and operationally sustainable.

• Define and maintain technology roadmaps for GEP cloud platforms and supporting applications, including modernization, migration, lifecycle management, technical debt reduction, and capability expansion.
• Lead cloud migration and transformation initiatives, including evaluation of workload suitability, dependencies, sequencing, risk, operational readiness, and transition planning.
• Balance strategic architecture direction with near-term delivery needs, platform stability, security requirements, supportability, and business value.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical adoption paths based on measurable business and operational outcomes.

• Serve as a senior technical advisor and escalation point for complex cloud, application, infrastructure, integration, deployment, and connected-equipment issues.
• Engage directly with architecture, design, configuration, logs, data flows, and technical diagnostics as needed to clarify trade-offs, identify root causes, unblock teams, and drive resolution.
• Lead architecture reviews, solution evaluations, and technical assessments for strategic GEP initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance to internal engineering teams, operations teams, vendors, and external delivery partners while maintaining clear accountability for architecture decisions.

• Define architecture expectations for availability, scalability, resilience, recoverability, performance, observability, supportability, and operational readiness.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and long-term corrective actions.
• Ensure new and changed solutions include production readiness, support processes, documentation, security controls, and measurable service expectations.
• Use operational insights and recurring issue patterns to influence platform roadmaps and continuous improvement priorities.

• Partner with Global Cyber Defense, privacy, legal, engineering, and product teams to ensure cloud platforms and applications meet enterprise security, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
• Define secure architecture patterns for identity, access, network connectivity, certificates, keys, secrets, application communication, software delivery, and cloud services.
• Own product security reviews, vulnerability remediation, penetration testing, incident response, risk assessments, and architecture sign-offs.
• Ensure architecture decisions appropriately balance business value, delivery needs, operational impact, security risk, and long-term platform health.
• Working knowledge of security architecture principles, including cryptography, PKI, certificate management, IAM, secrets management, and secure communications.

• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and technical evaluations for emerging cloud, AI, automation, analytics, and connected-equipment capabilities within GEP.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to move promising concepts from evaluation into scalable, secure, and supportable platform capabilities.
• Provide architecture guidance for AI-enabled and data-driven solutions, including required integrations, cloud services, security controls, operational models, and lifecycle considerations.
• Promote a test, learn, and iterate approach while maintaining clear evaluation criteria and alignment to business priorities.

• Work closely with product leadership, platform engineering, software engineering, Unified IoT, data teams, security, operations, experience teams, and equipment platform teams.
• Serve as the cloud architecture point of contact for strategic initiatives involving GEP applications, connected equipment platforms, cloud modernization, integrations, deployments, security, and operational capabilities.
• Influence architecture and roadmap decisions across internal and external stakeholders without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance to vendors and delivery partners, ensuring solutions align with GEP-defined and enterprise standards rather than being defined independently by third parties.

• 10+ years in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
• Experience with security architecture, vulnerability management, certificate and key management, incident response, and secure software delivery.
• Experience defining architecture across complex, multi-system enterprise environments with globally distributed users, teams, or technology platforms.
• Strong experience with AWS and Azure cloud services, application architecture, APIs, integration patterns, networking, identity, security, observability, and highly available systems.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps and leading cloud modernization, migration, or platform transformation initiatives.
• Experience partnering across product, software engineering, infrastructure, operations, security, data, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to provide strategic architecture leadership while remaining hands-on enough to investigate complex technical issues and guide resolution.
• Ability to translate business needs and technical constraints into clear architecture recommendations, priorities, trade-offs, and executable plans.
• Experience leading vendors, external partners, and geographically distributed delivery teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field.

• Experience with IoT, connected devices, telemetry, operational technology, digital equipment, manufacturing systems, or distributed edge platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud-native application patterns, containers, serverless technologies, messaging, event-driven architectures, APIs, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, software delivery controls, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability engineering, and operational readiness practices.
• Experience evaluating AI-enabled solutions, analytics capabilities, automation, or emerging technologies through proof-of-concept and technical assessment activities.
• Experience working with external partners, OEMs, vendors, bottlers, franchise networks, or customer-facing technology ecosystems.
• Product ownership or platform product experience, including roadmap planning, priority management, stakeholder alignment, and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with automation and scripting technologies, including Python, PowerShell, and Bash.

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

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