Senior Cloud & SaaS Platform Architect (Hybrid, CA)

McAfee GmbH; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Program

401k Retirement

Medical, Dental, Vision

Parental Leave

Unlimited PTO

Sick/Vacation accrual

Job summary

McAfee seeks a Principal Infrastructure Architect to lead cloud-native migration efforts from EC2 to Amazon EKS and Kubernetes, with a focus on multi-region design and auto-scaling. Hybrid work model with on‑site 2–3 days weekly at San Jose or Newport Beach, CA, and commuting distance required.

You will architect real-time data platforms, API and LLM gateways, and advanced observability using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, and Graylog while mentoring engineers and driving security and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering and architecture.
• Kubernetes expert with hands-on mastery and EKS experience.
• Strong experience with high‑scale data systems and real‑time stores.
• Security and compliance expertise including Zero Trust, WAFs, and secret management.
• Experience building observability pipelines with OpenTelemetry and visualization tools.
• Proficient in Go, Python, or Bash; strong CI/CD experience (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Deep knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, Direct Connect) and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration of legacy EC2 workloads to Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
• Design and deploy high-performance API Gateways and LLM Gateways for Generative AI workloads.
• Implement service mesh for traffic management, mTLS, and observability.
• Architect real-time data infrastructure with Aerospike, DynamoDB, Aurora, Druid, ClickHouse.
• Build event-driven architectures with Kafka, SNS/SQS, Pulsar and Pub/Sub systems.
• Define open telemetry standards and integrating Grafana, Datadog, Graylog for unified observability.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead Well-Architected reviews.

Skills

10+ years

Kubernetes

Security & compliance

Observability

Automation & scripting

Networking fundamentals

Go

Python

CI/CD

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

Pulumi

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

McAfee seeks a Principal Infrastructure Architect to lead cloud-native migration efforts from EC2 to Amazon EKS and Kubernetes, with a focus on multi-region design and auto-scaling. Hybrid work model with on‑site 2–3 days weekly at San Jose or Newport Beach, CA, and commuting distance required.

You will architect real-time data platforms, API and LLM gateways, and advanced observability using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog, and Graylog while mentoring engineers and driving security and