Cloud & Security Architect

Coca-Cola; Georgia; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Director, Cloud Architect for Global Equipment Platforms (GEP). This senior individual contributor will define cloud strategy and provide hands-on leadership to modernize connected equipment across Freestyle, dispensers, and IoT assets.

The role collaborates with Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, and external partners to establish architecture standards, security controls, and scalable foundations that enable reliable, observable, and AI-enabled

Responsibilities

• Define GEP Cloud Architecture and Strategy across AWS, Azure, and SaaS platforms.
• Lead architecture decisions, patterns, and reference designs for hosting, security, data movement.
• Partner with Engineering, Platform, Unified IoT, Data, Security to ensure standards are implementable.
• Define roadmaps and ensure architecture enables scalable, secure, and observable systems.
• Provide hands-on leadership for strategic initiatives and complex cloud issues.

Job description

Job Description Summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Director, Cloud Architect for Global Equipment Platforms (GEP). GEP supports connected equipment capabilities across Freestyle, dispensed equipment, coolers, digital racks, IoT-enabled assets, and future equipment ecosystems. As GEP continues to modernize and connect its equipment platforms, cloud architecture will be critical to enabling secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable technology capabilities across the global equipment ecosystem.

The Director, Cloud Architect will define and guide the cloud architecture, modernization strategy, operational readiness, and technical roadmap for GEP platforms and supporting applications. This role establishes architecture patterns, technology standards, governance practices, and cloud foundations that enable scalable application delivery, platform integration, data movement, security, observability, and future digital and AI capabilities.

This is a senior individual contributor architecture leadership role responsible for setting GEP cloud architecture direction and providing hands‑on technical leadership for strategic initiatives and complex issues. The role will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, Unified IoT, Security, Operations, Data, Operating Units, Bottlers, vendors, and external delivery partners, while working within the broader enterprise architecture and technology framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Define GEP Cloud Architecture and Strategy 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.
• Lead Platform Modernization and Technical Roadmaps 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.
• Provide Hands‑On Technical Leadership 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‑cause, 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.
• Strengthen Operational Excellence and Reliability 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.
• Embed Security and Risk Management 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 bal