Cloud Platform Architect: Multi-Cloud & Security Leader

Socket.dev; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 118,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a Cloud Platform Architect to lead enterprise cloud foundations across GCP, AWS, and Azure. You will design secure, observable, and reusable platforms with automation and governance to enable fast, safe delivery of workloads across cloud, on‑prem, and edge environments.

You will mentor teams, partner with security and operations, and drive best practices in IaC, CI/CD, and platform patterns to ensure reliability and scalability for energy infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.
• Seven years of related functional experience.
• Exposure to diverse systems, technologies and processing environments in a large Corporate setting.
• Project solution architecture experience.
• Knowledge of core aspects of architecture (Software, Hardware, Network, Integration, Data, hosting models, platform types, etc.)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Extensive knowledge of future technology trends within area of expertise.
• Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill sets.
• Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise cloud “landing zones” with built-in insecurity, governance, and automation.
• Define standards for networking, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and platform services.
• Support container based and cloud‑native hosting models, with flexibility for legacy and packaged solutions.
• Embed security into cloud platforms from the start using Zero Trust principles.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and enterprise security requirements.
• Partner with security teams to implement approved controls and services.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD based provisioning.
• Reduce manual configuration and improve consistency through automation.
• Create reusable cloud templates, modules, and patterns.
• Design platforms for high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Ensure monitoring, logging, and alerting are built into all platform components.
• Design platforms that can be effectively operated, supported, and maintained over time.
• Work closely with architects, engineers, and business partners across IT and operational teams.
• Participate in architecture reviews and governance forums.
• Mentor and guide teams on cloud best practices and platform usage.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years experience

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Xcel Energy is seeking a Cloud Platform Architect to lead enterprise cloud foundations across GCP, AWS, and Azure. You will design secure, observable, and reusable platforms with automation and governance to enable fast, safe delivery of workloads across cloud, on‑prem, and edge environments.

You will mentor teams, partner with security and operations, and drive best practices in IaC, CI/CD, and platform patterns to ensure reliability and scalability for energy infrastructure.