Senior Cloud Architect

This is a Full Time Job

Overview:

The Infrastructure & Media Technology department is a central technology organization that sits within the Product & Tech team of Paramount Skydance. We support multiple lines of business including Enterprise Applications, Ad Platforms, Linear Broadcasting & Distribution and Media Supply Chain. It is a fun and stimulating environment because the problems we solve are at tremendous scale. If you are interested in spearheading technological change and making a high impact at a premier media company, this is the role for you.

The Senior Cloud Architect is in charge of defining architectural standards, security frameworks and automation goals for all cloud deployments operated by Infrastructure & Media Technology. It is a high-impact and strategic role with a large scope that allows the candidate to work with brilliant co-workers to help solve some of Paramount’s most pressing technical challenges. The Senior Cloud Architect will have the ability to greatly influence cloud policy as well be a visionary for how Paramount should adopt the cloud over the next 3 to 5 years. They will have an opportunity to lead a team and partner with a globally distributed workforce to define and execute on a strategy to enable applications to deploy to the cloud in a cost-conscious, repeatable and secure way.

Primary Responsibilities:

Hands on engineering capability in support of Paramount Technology’s goal of migrating workloads between public cloud providers

Define strategy for migrating applications from various Linux versions (Amazon Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc) to a standard running on Oracle Linux

Collaborate and define, document and educate on standards to be followed for the following:
• Foundational cloud architecture Automation framework, tools and taxonomy Continuous Integration / Deployment methodology
• Security Governance (In collaboration with Information Security)
• Partner with and advise Cloud Engineering organization on infrastructure architecture, cloud network design, infrastructure automation and security best practices
• Drive infrastructure strategy for security operations Collaborate with Paramount Skydance Information Security organization on Company security standards
• Lead team of Infrastructure Security engineers to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in our environment
• Continually evaluate the startup market for innovative solutions in the areas of infrastructure automation, cloud security and observability
• Proficiency with Chef Automation Enterprise/OCI
• Manage the full lifecycle of the Chef Automation Enterprise platform, including version upgrades, agent updates, and ongoing maintenance Develop and maintain Chef cookbooks to automate configuration management across a managed server ecosystem
• Drive the certification process for new operating systems and software, ensuring compatibility and compliance standards are met

Basic Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess the following knowledge, experience, and talents:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

6 years’ experience spanning at least 2 IT disciplines including technical architecture, network design, application development, middleware, database, OS or devops

Deep knowledge of multiple cloud provider offerings Amazon Web Services/GCP/OCI/Azure

Proficiency in Python or JavaScript or Terraform or Golang

Experience with large scale migrations of enterprise systems to public cloud

Experience working with cross functional teams across multiple time zones and varying cultural backgrounds

Experience designing, implementing and managing virtual private networks in public cloud ecosystems and connectivity to the physical layer

Additional Qualifications
• 5 years’ experience with the following technologies: AWS/Linux/Terraform/Chef

Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tooling and capabilities to enhance and accelerate coding / automation tasks (e.g. Cursor, GitHub CoPilot, Claude Code, etc)

Proven ability to influence peers on advantages of standardization, automation and shift left principles

Demonstrated ability to implement architectural standards in large companies working across diverse teams with varying business and application requirements

Experience drafting statements of work and providing feedback to legal department on business terms for data services contracts

Strong experience in building a highly effective and collaborative team culture that supports learning new technologies and challenges the status quo.

Highly effective at communicating complex ideas in easy-to-understand language

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