Cloud & Security Architect

Coca-Cola•Atlanta, GA

1d•$171,000 - $198,000

About The Position

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Director, Cloud Architect for Global Equipment Platforms (GEP), which supports connected equipment capabilities across Freestyle, dispensed equipment, coolers, digital racks, IoT-enabled assets, and future equipment ecosystems. The role defines and guides cloud architecture, modernization strategy, operational readiness, and technical roadmaps for GEP platforms and supporting applications. It establishes architecture patterns, technology standards, governance practices, and cloud foundations for scalable application delivery, integration, data movement, security, observability, and future digital and AI capabilities. This is a senior individual-contributor architecture leadership role that sets GEP cloud architecture direction and provides hands-on technical leadership for strategic initiatives and complex issues. The architect collaborates with Product, Engineering, Platform, Unified IoT, Security, Operations, Data, Operating Units, Bottlers, vendors, and external delivery partners, within the broader enterprise architecture and technology framework. The position leads architecture and modernization across AWS, Azure, SaaS platforms, connected-equipment services, APIs, data integration, and enterprise technologies. It provides technical guidance on complex issues, establishes expectations for reliability and operational readiness, embeds security and risk management, and evaluates emerging cloud, AI, automation, analytics, and connected-equipment capabilities. The role influences internal and external stakeholders without direct reporting authority and helps ensure vendor and partner solutions align with GEP and enterprise standards. The position is based in Atlanta, United States, with 0%–25% travel and no relocation provided. The company will not sponsor employment-based nonimmigrant visas; applicants must be authorized to work full-time in the United States without company sponsorship. The listed U.S. pay range is $171,000–$198,000. Base pay may vary by geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Medical, financial, and/or other benefits are offered depending on the position.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
Experience with security architecture, vulnerability management, certificate and key management, incident response, and secure software delivery.
Experience defining architecture across complex, multi-system enterprise environments with globally distributed users, teams, or technology platforms.
Strong experience with AWS and Azure cloud services, application architecture, APIs, integration patterns, networking, identity, security, observability, and highly available systems.
Experience developing technology roadmaps and leading cloud modernization, migration, or platform transformation initiatives.
Experience partnering across product, software engineering, infrastructure, operations, security, data, and business stakeholders.
Ability to provide strategic architecture leadership while remaining hands-on enough to investigate complex technical issues and guide resolution.
Ability to translate business needs and technical constraints into clear architecture recommendations, priorities, trade-offs, and executable plans.
Experience leading vendors, external partners, and geographically distributed delivery teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Must be currently authorized to work full-time in the United States and must not require The Coca-Cola Company’s sponsorship to continue working legally in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience with IoT, connected devices, telemetry, operational technology, digital equipment, manufacturing systems, or distributed edge platforms.
Experience with cloud-native application patterns, containers, serverless technologies, messaging, event-driven architectures, APIs, and infrastructure automation.
Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, software delivery controls, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability engineering, and operational readiness practices.
Experience evaluating AI-enabled solutions, analytics capabilities, automation, or emerging technologies through proofs of concept and technical assessments.
Experience working with external partners, OEMs, vendors, bottlers, franchise networks, or customer-facing technology ecosystems.
Product ownership or platform product experience, including roadmap planning, priority management, stakeholder alignment, and lifecycle management.
Proficiency with Python, PowerShell, and Bash.

Responsibilities

Define GEP cloud architecture and strategy, assess current architecture and operational capabilities, identify gaps, and establish target-state architecture and modernization roadmaps.
Lead architecture decisions across AWS, Azure, SaaS platforms, connected-equipment services, APIs, data integration, and supporting enterprise technologies.
Define reusable architecture patterns and reference designs for hosting, integration, networking, identity, security, data movement, observability, resilience, and deployment.
Partner with engineering, platform, Unified IoT, data, security, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure architecture standards are implementable, scalable, secure, cost-conscious, and operationally sustainable.
Define and maintain technology roadmaps for GEP cloud platforms and applications, including modernization, migration, lifecycle management, technical debt reduction, and capability expansion.
Lead cloud migration and transformation initiatives, evaluating workload suitability, dependencies, sequencing, risk, operational readiness, and transition plans.
Balance strategic architecture direction with delivery needs, platform stability, security, supportability, and business value; assess emerging technologies and recommend practical adoption paths.
Serve as a senior technical advisor and escalation point for complex cloud, application, infrastructure, integration, deployment, and connected-equipment issues.
Engage with architecture, design, configuration, logs, data flows, and diagnostics to clarify trade-offs, identify root causes, unblock teams, and drive resolution.
Lead architecture reviews, solution evaluations, and technical assessments for strategic GEP initiatives.
Guide internal engineering and operations teams, vendors, and external delivery partners, while maintaining accountability for architecture decisions.
Define expectations for availability, scalability, resilience, recoverability, performance, observability, supportability, and operational readiness.
Partner with engineering and operations to improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and corrective actions.
Ensure new and changed solutions include production readiness, support processes, documentation, security controls, and measurable service expectations.
Use operational insights and recurring issue patterns to inform platform roadmaps and continuous improvement priorities.
Partner with Global Cyber Defense, privacy, legal, engineering, and product teams to meet enterprise security, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
Define secure architecture patterns for identity, access, network connectivity, certificates, keys, secrets, application communication, software delivery, and cloud services.
Own product security reviews, vulnerability remediation, penetration testing, incident response, risk assessments, and architecture sign-offs.
Lead proofs of concept and technical evaluations for emerging cloud, AI, automation, analytics, and connected-equipment capabilities.
Guide Product and Engineering teams in taking promising concepts from evaluation into scalable, secure, and supportable platform capabilities.
Provide architecture guidance for AI-enabled and data-driven solutions, including integrations, cloud services, security controls, operational models, and lifecycle considerations.
Promote test-and-iterate approaches with clear evaluation criteria and alignment to business priorities.
Serve as the cloud architecture point of contact for strategic GEP initiatives involving applications, connected equipment, modernization, integrations, deployments, security, and operations.
Influence architecture and roadmap decisions across internal and external stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
Guide vendors and delivery partners to ensure their solutions align with GEP-defined and enterprise standards.