Principal Cloud Platform Architect (Denver, Colorado)

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara Corporation is seeking a Cloud Foundation Architect in the Denver area to design, implement, and govern the company’s multi-cloud foundation across AWS and GCP, with emphasis on landing zones, IAM, and networking.

The role demands expert knowledge of multi-account strategies, security, cost management, and experience with AI/ML cloud services such as SageMaker or Vertex AI, plus strong stakeholder engagement across global teams.

Qualifications

• Expert-level experience designing AWS Organizations, OUs, Landing Zones, and SCPs.
• Proven track record managing multi-account cloud environments.
• Extensive IAM, identity federation, access governance, and security architecture.
• Strong multi-cloud networking including Transit Gateway and Shared VPCs.
• Experience with AI/ML cloud platforms like SageMaker, Vertex AI, Bedrock.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional; GCP Architect cert desirable.
• Excellent communication and mentoring in globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern Hitachi Vantara's multi-cloud foundation on AWS and GCP.
• Define enterprise cloud operating model, standards, and guardrails.
• Lead security, cost management, and governance practices.
• Enable engineering teams with secure, scalable shared services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across regions.

Skills

AWS Organizations

Landing Zones

IAM & access control

Networking

Security governance

SageMaker/AI services

GCP Organizations

Cloud cost management

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

SCPs

Job description

Job Description:

Function

IT

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

This is a hybrid position. Candidates must be located within reasonable driving distance of the Denver, Colorado metro area, as periodic in-person team meetings and events will be held locally.

The team

At Hitachi Vantara, our Cloud Architecture team is at the center of the company’s global digital transformation, delivering secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms that support both enterprise IT and product development. Operating across AWS as our primary cloud and GCP as a strategic secondary platform, we design and govern multi-cloud environments that enable innovation while maintaining strong security, networking, and operational standards. As our cloud footprint continues to grow, we are expanding the team with experienced architects who can help shape our cloud strategy, modernize infrastructure, and support emerging technologies including AI and machine learning.

The role

As a Cloud Foundation Architect, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and governing Hitachi Vantara's multi-cloud foundation across AWS and GCP. This includes ownership of cloud organization structures, landing zones, identity and access management, network architecture, governance frameworks, and shared services that enable engineering teams to operate securely and efficiently at scale. You will define the enterprise cloud operating model, establish standards and guardrails, and ensure cloud environments are secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.

What you´ll bring

• Expert-level experience designing and administering AWS Organizations, Organizational Units (OUs), Control Tower, Landing Zones, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and enterprise-scale multi-account environments.
• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise cloud foundations supporting dozens to hundreds of cloud accounts/projects across multiple business units.
• Extensive experience with enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM), including federated identity, role-based access control, access governance, and cloud security architecture.
• Expert knowledge of cloud network architecture including Transit Gateway, Shared VPCs, hybrid connectivity, network segmentation, routing strategy, DNS architecture, and enterprise-scale multi-cloud networking.
• Expertise in AWS security, governance, identity, and cost management best practices
• Knowledge of serverless and event-driven architectures using services such as API Gateway and Lambda
• Strong preference for candidates with hands-on experience designing and governing GCP Organizations, IAM models, Shared VPCs, networking, and enterprise cloud foundations.
• Experience supporting AI/ML cloud platforms and services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar technologies
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification (current); GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification is highly desirable
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring capabilities within globally distributed teams

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $120K to $150K. The expected on-target earnings for this position is: $136k to $170k.

The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs,

where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.

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About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co‑create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data‑driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit‑based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry‑leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.