Senior Principal Cloud Architect
78% Flex- Remote from:United States
Senior Principal Cloud Architect
Offer summary
Qualifications:
10+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, 5+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, etc., Hands-on experience with cloud services and security-focused solutions, Strong analytical & cross-functional leadership skills.Key responsabilities:
- Evolve cloud strategy for global use
- Develop and maintain cloud catalog
- Monitor cost trends and propose optimizations
- Collaborate across teams to drive modernization
Job description
Your missions
Ready to do your part in the world of Cybersecurity? SonicWall is a leader in cybersecurity and networking solutions that put our partners at the heart of our innovation to ensure ease of doing business in a world full of opportunities. With more than a 30-year history, we embrace an outside-in approach, listening and learning from our partners and customers to provide the outcomes their organizations require.
If you’re ready for a career that can impact real change — and not just another job — join us!
The Cloud Architect role will be responsible for enhancing our cloud strategy, setting up a robust CCOE (Cloud Center of Excellence) focused on DevOps best practices for cloud solutions, driving to the right set of services in our Cloud Catalog, building patterns for each consumption by our development teams, designing solutions that accelerate our customers' cloud migration journey, and ensuring that we are leveraging all the benefits of an on-demand cloud environment while keeping our costs low, and resiliency high.
Key Responsibilities:
- Evolve our cloud strategy to allow for ease of use of cloud services by application teams globally. This includes a more rigorous CCOE to help drive innovation in our cloud platform while setting DevOps standards and governance.
- Develop and maintain a cloud catalog for all standard cloud services that are offered to dev teams, along with unit costs to help estimate start-up costs as well as run-rates
- Responsible for monitoring cost trends and proposing optimizations to existing cloud usage.
- Develop and maintain a set of services and capabilities to enhance and ease customer migration to the cloud.
- Help design foundational structures and patterns for successfully building and executing services on a global multi-cloud, multi-tenant, platform.
- Drive an automation mindset to all cloud services that are offered and ensure that consumption of services is devoid of manual engagements or requests.
- Be an advocate and enabler for key automation technologies such as Terraform, Pulumi, or other IaC Platforms.
- Work with a cross-functional group of partners from Development, QA, Infrastructure, Security, CIO teams and business teams to drive modernization of our applications and services, by leveraging cloud practices as a catalyst
Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:
- 10+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering in large dynamic environments
- 5+ years of Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, and others.
- Hands-on experience with foundational cloud services including modern compute services (Kubernetes, serverless, functions), cloud databases, IaC, cloud storage, and security functions for a security-focused solution.
- Working knowledge of resiliency and disaster recovery patterns (HA, active-active, etc).
- Ability to build, deliver, and operate complex cloud-native systems.
- Proven Agile, Lean, DevSecOps/DevOps knowledge and experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with focused attention to details.
- Excellent professionalism and time/task management skills with ability to establish strong relationships.
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to apply analysis to actionable insights.
- Proven cross-functional leadership skills to motivate and inspire the team.
- Ability and desire to not just think outside the box, but find a new box when necessary.
Preferred:
- Background working in software and SaaS Services offerings
- Background and experience building and managing large global services platform
- Hands-on technology driver who is motivated to create innovative solutions to unique problems.
Compensation varies based on location and work being performed. The starting pay range for a candidate selected for this position is generally within the range of $181,875 – $248,390 for annual base salary. Employees may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses and commissions. The successful candidate’s actual pay will also be based on qualifications and experience, so the actual starting pay may be above or below this range.
The Company also offers a comprehensive, flexible and competitive benefits program. It provides access to programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs of our employees and their families. The Company offers medical, vision and dental coverage, and health savings accounts; mental health support, time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, vacation and personal time off; and a retirement savings plan with Roth features.
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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.
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- Strong analytical and leadership abilities
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