Cloud Architect / Solution Design Engineer
About The Position
The Cloud Architect / Solution Design Engineer is responsible for designing, architecting, and advancing cloud-based platforms and engineering solutions supporting GlobalFoundries' worldwide Design Engineering, Software Engineering, and R&D organizations. This role will serve as a technical leader for AWS cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, container orchestration, and developer enablement services used by a global engineering community exceeding 5,000 users across North America, Europe, and Asia. The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing large-scale enterprise cloud environments, modern application platforms, DevOps ecosystems, CI/CD services, and cloud-native infrastructure supporting software development, EDA workloads, and engineering collaboration platforms. The Cloud Architect will partner with Design Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available, and automated solutions that accelerate product development and engineering productivity.
Requirements
- BS, MS or PhD + 12 years of experience or other equitable years of experience
- 10+ years of enterprise IT experience
- 5+ years designing large-scale AWS cloud solutions
- Experience supporting organizations with 5,000+ users
- Experience enabling global software engineering teams
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes and container platforms
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience
- Experience designing platforms rather than simply administering them
- Ability to translate business and engineering requirements into scalable reference architectures
- Experience operating in highly regulated and security-conscious environments
- AWS Platform Services (Amazon EKS, EC2, ECS/Fargate, S3, Route53, CloudFront, RDS, EFS, FSx, IAM, Lambda, Systems Manager, CloudWatch, Organizations, Control Tower)
- Platform Engineering (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, GitOps, GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, Service Mesh)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
- CI/CD & Developer Platforms (GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Cursor, Jenkins, Artifactory, JIRA, SonarQube, Backstage, HashiCorp Vault)
- Programming & Automation (Python, Bash/Shell, PowerShell, YAML, REST APIs)
- Travel - Up to 10%
- Fluency in English Language – written & verbal
Nice To Haves
- Semiconductor industry experience
- Design Engineering organizations experience
- Electronic Design Automation (EDA) experience
- High Performance Computing (HPC) experience
- Software Product Development experience
- Cloud Engineering Platforms experience
- Large-scale R&D environments experience
- Global manufacturing organizations experience
- Project management skills - i.e., the ability to innovate and execute on solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong planning & organizational skills.
Responsibilities
- Designing, architecting, and advancing cloud-based platforms and engineering solutions supporting GlobalFoundries' worldwide Design Engineering, Software Engineering, and R&D organizations.
- Serving as a technical leader for AWS cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, container orchestration, and developer enablement services.
- Partnering with Design Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available, and automated solutions.
- Accelerating product development and engineering productivity.
- Performing all activities in a safe and responsible manner and supporting all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
- Other duties as assigned by manager.
Benefits
- Equal opportunity in the workplace
- Attraction and retention of highly qualified people
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
