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DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust, helping organizations protect the digital interactions people rely on every day. From websites and cloud services to connected devices and critical systems, we make sure digital experiences are secure, private, and authentic.
Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform brings together certificates, DNS, and lifecycle management to help organizations stay ahead of risk as technology and threats evolve. Trusted by more than 100,000 organizations—including 90% of the Fortune 500—DigiCert helps businesses operate with confidence today while preparing for what’s next, including a quantum-safe future.
Job summary
As a Cloud Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructures within cloud environments. This role involves joining a collaborative architect group focused on optimizing services for global accessibility, reliability, and integration with other cloud-native applications. You will work closely with crossfunctional teams, including network engineers, DevOps specialists, security experts, and business stakeholders, to ensure the platform aligns with organizational goals for performance, cost-efficiency, and compliance. Ideal candidates are experienced in cloud providers like AWS (e.g., Route 53), Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, or similar services, with a strong emphasis on teamwork and communication to drive successful project outcomes.
What you will do
- Solution Architecture & Design: Design end-to-end cloud architectures (compute, storage, networking, data, and security) that meet functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring high availability, resiliency, scalability, and observability.
- Cloud Strategy and Adoption: Lead cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, create migration strategies, define landing zones/well-architected frameworks, and develop multiyear cloud roadmaps that align with business objectives.
- Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Establish observability standards, implement monitoring and logging solutions, analyze performance metrics, and continuously optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency (auto-scaling, rightsizing, caching, etc.).
- Security and Compliance: Embed security-by-design principles, implement zero-trust models, ensure compliance with standards, and conduct architecture risk assessments and regular audits.
- Collaboration and Integration: Partner with engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams to integrate solutions into CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.), and resolve complex cross-team technical challenges.
- Cost Management: Perform cloud financial analysis, implement tagging and budgeting governance, forecast spend, and drive cost-optimization initiatives (reserved instances, savings plans, spot instances, architecture refactoring).
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Produce high-quality architecture decision records (ADRs), diagrams, runbooks, and reference architectures; actively mentor team members and lead architect community sessions to promote knowledge sharing.
- Innovation and Research: Continuously evaluate emerging cloud services, patterns, and tools; prototype new capabilities and propose innovative solutions that deliver measurable business value.
What you will have
Technical Skills
- 5+ years in engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or architecture roles.
- Proven experience (3+ years) in cloud architecture, with a focus on networking and SaaS application stacks.
- Proficiency in cloud-native tools and technologies, including IaC (Terraform, Ansible), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and API integrations.
- Strong knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, Anycast), security protocols SSL/TLS), and performance optimization techniques.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (CloudWatch) and scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; relevant certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert are highly preferred.
Soft Skills
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, fostering an inclusive environment where ideas are shared freely and diverse perspectives are valued to achieve common goals.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, facilitate meetings, and document architectures clearly.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical mindset to identify issues, evaluate alternatives, and implement effective solutions in dynamic cloud environments.
- Leadership and Adaptability: Capacity to lead initiatives, adapt to changing technologies, and mediate conflicts within the architect group to ensure project success.
- Time Management: Skill in prioritizing tasks, meeting deadlines, and balancing multiple projects in a fast-paced team setting.
Benefits
- Generous time off policies
- Top shelf benefits
- Education, wellness and lifestyle support