Cloud Engineer

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY: Serves as the principal Solution Architect for Digital Transformation, responsible for defining and driving the enterprise-wide architecture vision that enables scalable, secure, and modern digital platforms. This role provides technical leadership across cloud, edge systems, Dev Ops, data, and AI ecosystems, ensuring alignment with business strategy and transformation objectives. Partners with executive stakeholders, product teams, security, and global engineering groups to deliver sustainable architectures, platform capabilities, and engineering standards that accelerate value delivery and operational efficiency.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Owns the multi-year digital transformation architecture vision and roadmap aligned to business strategy, OKRs, and value streams.
• Translates business needs into target-state architectures, reference models, and transformation runways with measurable KPIs.
• Advocates for product-centric engineering, platform models, and modern software development practices.

• Defines enterprise reference architectures for hybrid/multi-cloud, edge/IoT, and associated data and security layers.
• Establishes architecture principles, non-functional requirements, decision records, and design patterns.
• Creates reusable architectural blueprints, accelerators, and landing zones supporting scale and compliance.

• Leads design of cloud-native platforms including containers, serverless, service mesh, and API ecosystems.
• Guides microservices decomposition, event-driven architectures, and cloud–edge integration patterns.
• Provides architecture sign-off on scalability, performance, and resiliency decisions.

• Defines enterprise Dev Ops standards including CI/CD, IaC, Git Ops, and automated testing strategies.
• Leads adoption of SRE practices such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and observability frameworks.
• Drives automation of compliance controls, security policies, and platform configurations.

• Enables security-by-design through threat modeling, workload identity, encryption standards, and automated controls.
• Ensures continuous compliance with regulatory and corporate standards.
• Leads architecture risk assessments and approves changes to overall security posture.

• Defines architectures for high availability, multi-region resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Leads escalation during major incidents and directs systemic corrective actions.
• Establishes service maturity frameworks and lifecycle governance.

• Conducts TCO/ROI analysis for architectural initiatives and platform investments.
• Implements cloud cost governance and optimization strategies.
• Provides transparency into cloud costs and aligns spending with business value.

• Provides enterprise-level technical leadership across programs and platforms.
• Collaborates and aligns strategy with global headquarters in Japan
• Prepares and delivers executive-level technical presentations, reviews, and proposal content.

• Conducts market research and benchmarking to inform long-term technology strategy.
• Sponsors innovation pilots, POCs, and emerging technology evaluations.
• Contributes to patent searches and intellectual-property development.

• Mentors senior engineers and technical leaders to build architecture competency.
• Leads communities of practice and engineering best-practice development.
• Promotes a culture of inclusion, continuous learning, and collaboration.

• Provides hands-on support for high-priority prototypes, performance tuning, or escalated issues.
• Defines operational readiness and ensures effective 24/7 support posture for critical systems.

• Performs additional responsibilities consistent with senior technical and…