Principal IT Systems Architect

Bloom Energy • San Jose, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Bloom Energy is hiring a Principal IT Systems Architect to define enterprise infrastructure architecture across AWS, on-premises, virtualization, Windows, Linux, identity, storage, backup, endpoint, and SaaS environments. The role reports to the Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering and is based in San Jose, California. It is fully on-site, five days in the office.

The architect will lead complex infrastructure initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation, validation, documentation, operational handoff, and lifecycle management. The role also establishes reliability, security, and operational standards; serves as a senior technical escalation point; partners across Cloud, Security, Network, Manufacturing, Application, and OT teams; drives automation and engineering standards; provides technical mentorship; and governs AWS and hybrid cloud environments.

Bloom Energy develops solid oxide fuel cell and solid oxide electrolyzer technologies for critical industries. The company states that more than 30,000 fuel cell modules have been deployed worldwide.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or related disciplines, with significant experience designing and leading complex enterprise architectures.
• Strong experience with Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and virtualization technologies such as VMware.
• Strong understanding of enterprise identity and access management, including SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth, SCIM, MFA, privileged access, PKI, certificates, and identity federation.
• Experience architecting or supporting enterprise endpoint management using platforms such as Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, and JAMF.
• Strong understanding of backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, vulnerability management, patching, monitoring, and infrastructure security in large enterprise environments.
• Deep technical knowledge of AWS and hybrid infrastructure, including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, networking, security controls, logging, compute, storage, backup, and multi-account environments.
• Proven ability to automate infrastructure and operational processes using PowerShell, Python, Bash, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience leading the technical design and resolution of complex, cross-platform infrastructure initiatives and production incidents.
• Ability to translate business and technical requirements into architecture diagrams, engineering standards, implementation plans, operational models, and technical documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction, mentor senior engineers, challenge design assumptions, and work across engineering, security, application, manufacturing, and business teams.
• Experience reviewing vendor architectures, proposals, and statements of work and holding vendors accountable for technical design, security, supportability, and operational requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing infrastructure for large-scale, highly available enterprise workloads spanning cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience with Zero Trust principles, enterprise security architecture, secrets management, centralized logging, SIEM integration, and security automation.
• AWS, Microsoft, VMware, security, or architecture certifications; these are a plus but are not required.

Responsibilities

• Define current-state, transitional, and target-state enterprise infrastructure architecture across AWS, on-premises, virtualization, Windows, Linux, identity, storage, backup, endpoint, and SaaS environments.
• Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation, validation, documentation, operational handoff, and lifecycle management.
• Design and evolve enterprise identity and endpoint platforms, including Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, federation and authentication protocols, PKI, privileged access, Intune, Configuration Manager, JAMF, Windows, and macOS management.
• Establish infrastructure reliability, security, and operational standards for backup and recovery, disaster recovery, patching, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, administrative access, capacity management, incident response, and change control.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex infrastructure issues.
• Partner with Cloud, Security, Network, Manufacturing, Application, and OT teams to design secure, resilient, and supportable solutions.
• Drive automation and engineering standards using scripting, APIs, AWS CLI, Microsoft Graph, and infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Provide technical mentorship, architecture documentation, and oversight of vendor solutions and technical engagements.
• Provide architecture and governance for AWS and hybrid cloud environments, including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, account provisioning, security guardrails, logging, tagging, workload isolation, and infrastructure as code.
• Lead the technical design and resolution of complex, cross-platform infrastructure initiatives and production incidents.
• Translate business and technical requirements into architecture diagrams, engineering standards, implementation plans, operational models, and technical documentation.
• Review vendor architectures, proposals, and statements of work, and hold vendors accountable for technical design, security, supportability, and operational requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a large employer contribution.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match.
• Generous Mental Health Support services.
• Legal services.
• Virtual Physical Therapy access.
• Fertility & Family Forming benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal