Qualcomm
Cloud Architect, Staff
$130K–$194K
San Diego, California · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of IT-related experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 10+ years without; also requires 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Applied Mathematics, or Engineering, or 10+ years of IT-related experience without a degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
About the job
Designs and governs GitOps releases, CI/CD automation, and developer tooling for Qualcomm’s internal EKS-based platform, while improving delivery practices and platform reliability.
What you'll do
- Build and govern GitOps release workflows and GitHub Actions pipelines, including promotion, versioning, testing, and security scanning.
- Develop Terraform modules, EKS platform capabilities, and self-service developer tooling; improve observability, reliability, and secure delivery.
- Set delivery standards, influence adoption across teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to agile practices and incident response.
What they ask for
- 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production, including hands-on EKS cluster lifecycle and multi-environment operations.
- Experience designing and governing GitOps release processes, including branching, promotion, and versioning.
- Advanced CI/CD expertise using GitHub Actions or similar, and strong Terraform expertise.
- Strong AWS expertise, including networking, IAM, and EKS; strong Linux and distributed-systems troubleshooting skills.
Nice to have
- Kubernetes or AWS certifications; Scrum delivery or Scrum Master experience.
- Experience with gitStream or similar automation, Karpenter, Kyverno, Crossplane, or self-service platform capabilities.
Pay
$129,600.00 - $194,400.00 USD base salary
Tools
EKS, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, gitStream, Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, Cilium
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