Cloud & Security Architect

The Coca-Cola Company•Atlanta, GA

2d•$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, platform 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 works with Product, Engineering, Platform, Unified IoT, Security, Operations, Data, Operating Units, Bottlers, vendors, external delivery partners, and enterprise architecture teams. The position is based in Atlanta, United States, with 0%–25% travel and no relocation provided.

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 in the United States on a full-time basis 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 proof-of-concept and technical assessment activities.
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 automation and scripting technologies, including Python, PowerShell, and Bash.

Responsibilities

Evaluate GEP cloud architecture, applications, infrastructure, integration patterns, and operational capabilities; identify gaps and define target-state architecture and modernization roadmaps aligned with enterprise standards and business priorities.
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 application hosting, integration, networking, identity, security, data movement, observability, resilience, and deployment.
Partner with GEP and enterprise teams to ensure architecture standards are implementable, scalable, secure, cost-conscious, and operationally sustainable.
Define and maintain technology roadmaps for GEP cloud platforms and supporting applications, covering 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 planning.
Balance strategic architecture direction with delivery needs, platform stability, security, supportability, and business value; evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical adoption paths.
Act 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 technical 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 teams, vendors, and delivery partners while retaining accountability for architecture decisions.
Define architecture expectations for availability, scalability, resilience, recoverability, performance, observability, supportability, and operational readiness.
Work with engineering and operations teams to improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and corrective actions.
Ensure solutions include production readiness, support processes, documentation, security controls, and measurable service expectations; use operational insights to guide roadmaps and continuous improvement.
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 proof-of-concept initiatives and technical evaluations for emerging cloud, AI, automation, analytics, and connected-equipment capabilities; guide promising concepts toward scalable, secure, supportable platform capabilities.
Provide architecture guidance for AI-enabled and data-driven solutions, including integrations, cloud services, security controls, operational models, and lifecycle considerations.
Serve as the cloud architecture point of contact for strategic GEP initiatives and influence roadmap and architecture decisions across internal and external stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
Guide vendors and delivery partners to ensure solutions align with GEP-defined and enterprise standards.