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Job Summary:
GE Appliances, a Haier company, is the fastest-growing appliance company in the U.S. They are seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and automated cloud infrastructure across the enterprise.
Responsibilities:
• Own the end-to-end cloud infrastructure architecture, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and automation frameworks.
• Define and maintain enterprise cloud architecture standards, landing zones, and blueprints to enable scalable and secure deployments.
• Architect hybrid and multi-cloud solutions that align to business continuity, cost optimization, and compliance requirements.
• Drive enterprise adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), policy-as-code, and automation practices across engineering teams.
• Establish observability and telemetry standards to ensure performance, reliability, and operational visibility across platforms.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement controls and frameworks that meet regulatory and organizational standards.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, architectures, and design patterns to optimize cost, performance, and maintainability.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers in architecture best practices, governance, and automation methodologies.
• Lead major cloud transformation initiatives, ensuring architectural alignment across multiple business domains.
• Partner with product and business teams to translate strategic goals into scalable and sustainable technical designs.
• Contribute to enterprise disaster recovery, resiliency, and capacity planning strategies.
• Represent cloud architecture in architecture review boards, governance councils, and vendor evaluations.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Engineering, or related field – or 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems architecture in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated proficiency with common programming and scripting languages.
• 5+ years of experience architecting large-scale AWS, GCP, or Azure environments, including design, automation, and operations.
• 7+ years of professional IT experience.
• Strong expertise in multi-account cloud architecture, IAM design, and network segmentation strategies.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation and CI/CD integration for infrastructure pipelines.
• Proven experience leading design and deployment of secure and compliant cloud environments.
• Understanding of FinOps, cost governance, and performance optimization principles in multi-cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to develop architecture diagrams, documentation, and reference implementations for enterprise use.
• Strong communication and leadership skills to influence technical direction across cross-functional teams.
Preferred:
• Experience designing and implementing hybrid connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments (e.g., VPN, Direct Connect, Interconnect).
• Expertise in high-availability design, disaster recovery planning, and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience architecting platforms for AI/ML and data analytics workloads, including GPU infrastructure, data lake integration, and model deployment environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and serverless architectures.
• Proficiency in developing and enforcing cloud governance and security frameworks using policy-as-code and automation tooling.
• Advanced understanding of monitoring, observability, and event-driven architectures.
• AWS Professional or Specialty certification (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, Advanced Networking, Security Specialty) or equivalent GCP/Azure certifications.
• Strong strategic thinking, able to connect long-term business goals to infrastructure roadmaps and technology outcomes.
Company:
At GE Appliances, a Haier company, we come together to make good things, for life. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, we are a leading U.S. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Louisville, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.