Qualcomm
Cloud Architect, Senior Staff
$156K–$234K
San Diego, California · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of IT-related experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 14+ years without; 5+ years operating Kubernetes at enterprise scale.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Applied Mathematics, or Engineering, or 14+ years of experience without a degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
About the job
Owns Qualcomm IT’s strategy, architecture, and execution for its GitOps-driven platform engineering capabilities, currently centered on EKS and with future multi-cloud expansion.
What you'll do
- Set platform strategy and architecture, including EKS lifecycle, Terraform standards, and multi-cloud roadmap.
- Establish enterprise GitOps, CI/CD, reliability, observability, security, and policy practices.
- Lead technical governance and incident response, communicate with senior leaders, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years operating Kubernetes at enterprise scale, with deep EKS expertise and multi-tenant architecture and lifecycle ownership.
- Advanced Terraform expertise; advanced AWS expertise across networking, IAM, and EKS.
- Strong CI/CD fundamentals using GitHub Actions or similar, including Argo CD integration; Linux and distributed systems troubleshooting skills.
- Proven cross-organizational technical strategy and stakeholder influence; experience with Helm/Kustomize, Kubernetes networking, and Cilium.
Nice to have
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD/CKS) and/or AWS Solutions Architect Professional / DevOps Engineer Professional.
- Experience with Karpenter cost optimization, Kyverno policy-at-scale, Crossplane concepts, or self-service platform capabilities.
Pay
$156,000.00 - $234,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
EKS, Terraform, Karpenter, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, Kyverno
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