Platform Architecture Lead: Cloud, DevOps & Security

Sierra Nevada Corporation; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive pay

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) with 150% match up to 6%

Life insurance

3 weeks paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corporation seeks a Product Architect – Platform Engineering to provide architectural leadership across cloud, data, and enterprise platforms. The role ensures scalable, reliable, and efficient platform capabilities with strong alignment to engineering and enterprise standards.

Collaborate with product, platform, and engineering leaders to define patterns, guide implementations, and maintain a cohesive architectural vision for modern DevOps and continuous delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years’ experience in security architecture, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.
• Experience designing secure architectures across cloud, infrastructure, and enterprise platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles including identity, network security, encryption, and data protection.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps and secure software development practices.
• Familiarity with Defense industry compliance topics such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, ITAR, DFARS, etc.
• Experience with firewalling, IDS/IPS systems, VPN technologies, DNS security, SIEM systems.
• Architecture and engineering experience with cloud networking technologies such as AWS Transit Gateway, Azure VWAN, DirectConnect/ExpressRoute, VPCs/VNETs, etc.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain reference architectures for cloud platforms, enterprise applications, and data platforms.
• Ensure platform capabilities are designed for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to align solutions with architecture standards and best practices.
• Guide platform design decisions to support long-term maintainability and flexibility.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps aligned to business priorities and enterprise strategy.
• Define architecture patterns supporting CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Partner with engineering teams to implement DevOps practices across platforms.
• Enable consistent development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Promote reuse of platform services and standardized engineering approaches.
• Support adoption of tooling and processes that improve delivery speed and quality.
• Translate enterprise architecture standards into practical platform design patterns.
• Provide architectural guidance across cloud, data, and application domains.

Skills

Security architecture

Enterprise architecture

Platform engineering

DevSecOps

Cloud security

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cisco

Palo Alto

Job description

Sierra Nevada Corporation seeks a Product Architect – Platform Engineering to provide architectural leadership across cloud, data, and enterprise platforms. The role ensures scalable, reliable, and efficient platform capabilities with strong alignment to engineering and enterprise standards.

Collaborate with product, platform, and engineering leaders to define patterns, guide implementations, and maintain a cohesive architectural vision for modern DevOps and continuous delivery.