Enterprise Cloud Platform Architect

Xcel Energy Services Inc; 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

401(k) plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a Cloud Platform Architect to design, build, and govern enterprise cloud foundations across GCP, AWS, and Azure. The role emphasizes security, observability, and reusable patterns in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will lead cross-functional teams, promote IaC and CI/CD, and mentor others while ensuring platforms are compliant, resilient, and operation-ready across on-premises and cloud workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of related experience in technology.
• Seven years of related functional experience.
• Exposure to diverse systems, technologies and processing environments in a large corporate setting.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise cloud landing zones with built-in security, 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 solutions.
• Embed security into cloud platforms using Zero Trust principles.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and enterprise security requirements.
• 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.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business partners across IT.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Relationship management

Collaboration

Leadership

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years of related experience

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Job description

Xcel Energy is seeking a Cloud Platform Architect to design, build, and govern enterprise cloud foundations across GCP, AWS, and Azure. The role emphasizes security, observability, and reusable patterns in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will lead cross-functional teams, promote IaC and CI/CD, and mentor others while ensuring platforms are compliant, resilient, and operation-ready across on-premises and cloud workloads.