Engineering Architect
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15 hours ago
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Job Summary
Who we are
Were a leading global security authority thats disrupting our own category. Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands the worlds largest companies the major cloud providers entire country financial systems entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers. We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. Thats digital trust for the real world.
Job summary
As a Cloud Architect will be responsible for designing implementing and managing scalable secure and high-performance infrastructures within cloud environments. This role involves joining a collaborative architect group focused on optimizing services for global accessibility reliability and integration with other cloud-native applications. You will work closely with crossfunctional teams including network engineers DevOps specialists security experts and business stakeholders to ensure the platform aligns with organizational goals for performance cost-efficiency and compliance. Ideal candidates are experienced in cloud providers like AWS (e.g. Route 53) Azure DNS Google Cloud DNS or similar services with a strong emphasis on teamwork and communication to drive successful project outcomes.
What you will do
- Solution Architecture & Design: Design end-to-end cloud architectures (compute storage networking data and security) that meet functional and non-functional requirements ensuring high availability resiliency scalability and observability.
- Cloud Strategy and Adoption: Lead cloud adoption and modernization initiatives create migration strategies define landing zones/well-architected frameworks and develop multiyear cloud roadmaps that align with business objectives.
- Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Establish observability standards implement monitoring and logging solutions analyze performance metrics and continuously optimize systems for latency throughput and cost efficiency (auto-scaling rightsizing caching etc.).
- Security and Compliance: Embed security-by-design principles implement zero-trust models ensure compliance with standards and conduct architecture risk assessments and regular audits.
- Collaboration and Integration: Partner with engineering DevOps security and product teams to integrate solutions into CI/CD pipelines automate infrastructure using IaC (Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi etc.) and resolve complex cross-team technical challenges.
- Cost Management: Perform cloud financial analysis implement tagging and budgeting governance forecast spend and drive cost-optimization initiatives (reserved instances savings plans spot instances architecture refactoring).
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Produce high-quality architecture decision records (ADRs) diagrams runbooks and reference architectures; actively mentor team members and lead architect community sessions to promote knowledge sharing.
- Innovation and Research: Continuously evaluate emerging cloud services patterns and tools; prototype new capabilities and propose innovative solutions that deliver measurable business value.
What you will have
Technical Skills
- 5 years in engineering SRE platform engineering or architecture roles.
- Proven experience (3 years) in cloud architecture with a focus on networking and SaaS application stacks.
- Proficiency in cloud-native tools and technologies including IaC (Terraform Ansible) containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and API integrations.
- Strong knowledge of networking concepts (e.g. TCP/IP BGP Anycast) security protocols SSL/TLS) and performance optimization techniques.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (CloudWatch) and scripting languages (Python Bash) for automation.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field; relevant certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect Google Cloud Professional Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert are highly preferred.
Soft Skills
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams fostering an inclusive environment where ideas are shared freely and diverse perspectives are valued to achieve common goals.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders facilitate meetings and document architectures clearly.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical mindset to identify issues evaluate alternatives and implement effective solutions in dynamic cloud environments.
- Leadership and Adaptability: Capacity to lead initiatives adapt to changing technologies and mediate conflicts within the architect group to ensure project success.
- Time Management: Skill in prioritizing tasks meeting deadlines and balancing multiple projects in a fast-paced team setting.
Benefits
- Generous time off policies
- Top shelf benefits
- Education wellness and lifestyle support
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Key Skills
- React Native
- AI
- Enterprise Software
- React
- Node.js
- Redis
- AWS
- Software Development
- IOS
- Team Management
- Product Development
- Mobile Applications
About Company
DigiCert is the leading TLS/SSL Certificate Authority specializing in digital trust for the real world through PKI, IoT, DNS, Document & Software security solutions.
