Senior Cloud Architect: Platform Modernization & Security

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 124,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

AD&D

LTD

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Guild Mortgage Company is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead enterprise cloud platform design and modernization. You will translate architectural direction into practical patterns, reference architectures, and reusable capabilities across security, automation, and platform services.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with EA, Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams, and driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence in cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree directly related to the position or equivalent, preferred.
• Minimum five years of experience in cloud architecture and/or development.
• Experience architecting cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure or another enterprise public cloud provider.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures for enterprise workloads.
• Experience implementing IaC, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and cloud platform engineering practices.
• Experience designing cloud security, identity, networking, resiliency, monitoring, logging, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Experience evaluating cloud technologies and recommending implementation approaches to improve maturity.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable, resilient cloud platform architectures aligned with enterprise principles.
• Translate strategies into practical solution designs, reference architectures, and engineering standards.
• Develop architectures to support cloud modernization and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with teams to modernize cloud platform capabilities and improve operational maturity.
• Design reusable deployment templates, automation frameworks, and CI/CD standards.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise cloud platforms

IaC

CI/CD

Security

Leadership

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

Git

GitHub

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Job description

Guild Mortgage Company is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead enterprise cloud platform design and modernization. You will translate architectural direction into practical patterns, reference architectures, and reusable capabilities across security, automation, and platform services.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with EA, Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams, and driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence in cloud solutions.