Director, Cloud Architecture

Edible Brands•Atlanta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Cloud Architecture is the technical authority for Edible Brands’ cloud hosting and corporate IT infrastructure. This hands-on role owns the Azure environment, its cost and performance, and the quality of IT operations, while providing architectural guidance across the technology stacks supporting Edible Arrangements, Rōti, BerryDirect, and edibles.com. The director designs and oversees cloud infrastructure according to best practices, supports high-traffic digital experiences and mission-critical services, and leads Azure cost optimization through data architecture and storage redesign, right-sizing, scaling strategies, and governance. The role advises brand, product, and engineering leaders on architecture and technology investments. Reporting to the VP of AI, Data Analytics & IT, this role oversees a four-person internal cloud/IT infrastructure team and the managed IT services partner, ProArch. It works closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Cybersecurity, brand leaders, and Digital Transformation. The position is onsite at the corporate office in Sandy Springs, Georgia, Monday through Friday.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
Experience owning both corporate IT infrastructure and customer-facing digital platforms.
Deep, hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure.
Experience implementing the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework across large-scale transformation and modernization initiatives.
Experience managing high-traffic, customer-facing platforms.
Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
Demonstrated ability to own and resolve production incidents.
Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, and distributed systems.
Strong experience supporting Node.js and API-driven architectures.
Ability to work onsite at the Sandy Springs, Georgia corporate office Monday through Friday.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing high-traffic customer-facing platforms in e-commerce; e-commerce is preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the Azure architecture, hosting footprint, and budget, and lead efforts to reduce costs through data architecture and storage redesign, right-sizing, scaling strategies, and governance.
Direct ProArch and serve as the primary contact and accountable owner for service-level agreements, support cases, Microsoft 365 and Azure licensing, consumption, and renewals.
Ensure monitoring, patching, backups, change management, incident management, and problem management meet standards, whether performed by the internal team or ProArch.
Serve as the initial escalation point for incidents and outages, lead root-cause analysis, and oversee fixes.
Design and validate infrastructure for peak-season demand, including Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and holidays, with demonstrated performance and resilience.
Define and meet service-level agreements for availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, performance, and support across corporate and brand systems.
Partner with Cybersecurity on security by design, vulnerability management, threat detection, and remediation of findings.
Manage infrastructure and architecture debt through a visible backlog and remediation plan.
Mentor and lead the infrastructure team, fostering ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Run a lightweight, consistently applied architecture review process across brands and platforms, evaluating integrations and workflow design, including Celigo iPaaS workflows, Shopify, and other third-party integrations.
Advise brand leaders and Digital Transformation on technology investments that are efficient and support business strategy.
Translate strategy into architecture options, investment cases, and sequenced plans.
Partner with brand leaders and product teams to align roadmaps and remove technical barriers to growth.