Senior Platform & Cloud Architecture Leader

Comcast; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 166,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast’s FreeWheel enterprise architecture group seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect, Platform & Infrastructure to shape multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies, drive platform standardization, and guide major modernization efforts. You will lead architecture reviews, define ADRs, and shape tooling, security, observability, and developer experience across the platform.

The role emphasizes cost efficiency, scalability, reliability, and collaboration with Platform Engineering and engineering

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, observability, databases, networking, infrastructure automation, and security-by-design.
• Experience designing and evolving large-scale cloud, hybrid-cloud, or datacenter-based platforms.
• Strong understanding of resiliency engineering, SLOs, observability, platform security, identity, and secrets management.
• Experience evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and creating architecture roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior architecture partner to Platform Engineering and Engineering teams, providing guidance on platform and infrastructure technology decisions.
• Develop Platform Architecture Roadmaps, Reference Architectures, standards, and ADRs supporting FreeWheel’s engineering ecosystem.
• Guide architectural direction for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, serverless technologies, databases, networking, observability, CI/CD, developer tooling, secrets management, and shared services.
• Partner with Platform Engineering on the design and evolution of platform capabilities, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, operable, and cost-efficient.
• Define platform guardrails, paved roads, reusable patterns, and golden paths that improve developer productivity and reduce unnecessary technology variation.
• Apply FinOps principles to architecture decisions by analyzing current cloud and other vended technology costs, correlating engineering spend with services and architectural patterns, assessing utilization efficiency, and identifying material cost drivers.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud architectures

Infrastructure architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Comcast’s FreeWheel enterprise architecture group seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect, Platform & Infrastructure to shape multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies, drive platform standardization, and guide major modernization efforts. You will lead architecture reviews, define ADRs, and shape tooling, security, observability, and developer experience across the platform.

The role emphasizes cost efficiency, scalability, reliability, and collaboration with Platform Engineering and engineering