Strategic Platform & Cloud Architect

Comcast; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead platform and infrastructure architecture across cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and security. You will shape roadmaps, reference architectures, and ADRs to drive scalable, cost-efficient solutions while guiding platform engineering teams and governance practices.

You will evaluate build vs. buy, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment with FinOps principles to optimize cloud spend and total cost of ownership across

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.

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 engineering 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.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud architectures

Infrastructure architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead platform and infrastructure architecture across cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and security. You will shape roadmaps, reference architectures, and ADRs to drive scalable, cost-efficient solutions while guiding platform engineering teams and governance practices.

You will evaluate build vs. buy, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment with FinOps principles to optimize cloud spend and total cost of ownership across