Senior Cloud Architect, Distributed Systems

Illumio; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio is seeking a seasoned Cloud Architect to design and deliver massively scalable cloud-based solutions across hybrid multi-cloud environments. You will work on zero-trust and breach containment initiatives, guiding architecture and automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure availability, performance, and security while building fault-tolerant services at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or similar role in production environments.
• Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and Kubernetes/docker containers.
• Strong understanding of networking, security controls, and cloud-native architecture.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud architecture that solves business problems while balancing architecture considerations and margins.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and architect scalable cloud solutions.
• Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based architectures focusing on efficiency, scalability, availability, performance, and security.
• Evaluate and select cloud technologies and tools to meet company needs and drive innovation (Kubernetes, etc.).
• Optimize cloud systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud infrastructure health and performance.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities in the cloud environment.
• Stay up-to-date with cloud, distributed systems, and cybersecurity trends.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Java

Python

REST API

Agile

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Illumio is seeking a seasoned Cloud Architect to design and deliver massively scalable cloud-based solutions across hybrid multi-cloud environments. You will work on zero-trust and breach containment initiatives, guiding architecture and automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure availability, performance, and security while building fault-tolerant services at scale.