4 months ago
Wilmington, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$180k - $248k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and govern enterprise cloud architecture and cloud-native platform standards on Google Cloud Platform and own the multi-year cloud platform roadmap.
- Design provisioning, networking, and data architectures that scale to hundreds or thousands of instances and petabyte-scale daily data volumes.
- Lead migration of more than 100 environments to GCP and deliver greenfield Kubernetes-based platform initiatives through production adoption.
- Build self-service developer workflows, golden paths, resource-pool provisioning, guardrails, validation, and platform visibility controls.
- Establish workload isolation, secure disaster recovery, backup and snapshot capabilities, and cloud security controls with the Security team.
- Own cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices at enterprise scale.
- Drive platform capabilities including CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and developer productivity improvements.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through prototyping, design reviews, architecture forums, mentoring, and executive-level technology strategy.
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, DevOps, AI, product, and edge teams across cloud, on-premises, and robotics environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- At least 12 years designing and implementing enterprise and cloud architectures, including personally leading at least one large-scale cloud migration or platform modernization.
- At least 5 years in a Principal Architect, Lead Architect, or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
- Deep Google Cloud Platform expertise, including GKE, GCP resource hierarchy and IAM, VPC design, and data services, or equivalent AWS/Azure depth with the ability to lead on GCP.
- Experience with high-scale automated provisioning, large fleets, very large data volumes, and high-traffic architectures.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, containers, microservices, distributed systems, and APIs.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and GitOps-driven delivery.
- Experience building self-service Platform Engineering, CI/CD, and DevOps solutions adopted by multiple engineering teams.
- Understanding of cloud security and isolation, identity, networking, observability, disaster recovery, and backup or snapshot strategies.
- Enterprise-scale cloud cost management or FinOps experience.
- Exceptional communication, executive influence, and architecture governance skills.
- Preferred experience with hybrid cloud or edge platforms, Google Distributed Cloud or Anthos, robotics or other physical-world automation industries, AI/ML platforms, GenAI developer tooling, petabyte-scale data platforms, newly formed platform teams, Google Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKS, or TOGAF.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based out of the Wilmington, Massachusetts headquarters, with flexibility based on candidate location and qualifications.
- Travel of up to 25% may be required to the Wilmington headquarters and occasionally to engineering or customer locations; a valid driver’s license is required.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), and PTO.
- Equal opportunity employer.
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About Symbotic
Symbotic builds AI-enabled warehouse automation systems that combine high-density storage, autonomous robots, and warehouse execution software for large retailers, wholesalers, and consumer-goods distributors. The company sells and operates end-to-end material-handling platforms, including automated case picking and AS/RS, delivered through system deployments and long-term service agreements. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Symbotic is a public company on Nasdaq (SYM) and counts Walmart among its customers.