Cloud Architect / Solution Design Engineer

About GlobalFoundries: 

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com. 

Summary of Role:

The Cloud Architect / Solution Design Engineer is responsible for designing, architecting, and advancing cloud-based platforms and engineering solutions supporting GlobalFoundries' worldwide Design Engineering, Software Engineering, and R&D organizations.
This role will serve as a technical leader for AWS cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, container orchestration, and developer enablement services used by a global engineering community exceeding 5,000 users across North America, Europe, and Asia.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing large-scale enterprise cloud environments, modern application platforms, DevOps ecosystems, CI/CD services, and cloud-native infrastructure supporting software development, EDA workloads, and engineering collaboration platforms.
The Cloud Architect will partner with Design Engineering, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available, and automated solutions that accelerate product development and engineering productivity
Location: Dallas, TX or Santa Clara, CA
Reports To: Sr. Director, Design Engineering IT

Essential Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will have:

• 10+ years of enterprise IT experience
• 5+ years designing large-scale AWS cloud solutions
• Experience supporting organizations with 5,000+ users
• Experience enabling global software engineering teams
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes and container platforms
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience
• Experience designing platforms rather than simply administering them
• Ability to translate business and engineering requirements into scalable reference architectures
• Experience operating in highly regulated and security-conscious environments

Other Responsibilities: 

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs. 

• Other duties as assigned by manager. 

Required Qualifications:

Education and Experience – BS, MS or PhD + 12 years of experience or other equitable years of experience

• Skills

AWS Platform Services

• Amazon EKS
• EC2
• ECS/Fargate
• S3
• Route53
• CloudFront
• RDS
• EFS
• FSx
• IAM
• Lambda
• Systems Manager
• CloudWatch
• Organizations
• Control Tower

Platform Engineering

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm
• GitOps
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Perforce
• Service Mesh

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Ansible

CI/CD & Developer Platforms

• GitHub Enterprise
• GitLab
• Cursor
• Jenkins
• Artifactory
• JIRA
• SonarQube
• Backstage
• HashiCorp Vault

Programming & Automation

• Python
• Bash/Shell
• PowerShell
• YAML
• REST APIs

• Travel - Up to 10%

• Fluency in English Language – written & verbal

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience - strong preference for candidates with experience in one or more of the following:

• Semiconductor industry
• Design Engineering organizations
• Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Software Product Development
• Cloud Engineering Platforms
• Large-scale R&D environments
• Global manufacturing organizations

• Project management skills - i.e., the ability to innovate and execute on solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 

Strong planning & organizational skills.

Expected Salary Range

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at usaccommodations@gf.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. 

An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations. 

GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory. 

All policies and processes which pertain to employees including recruitment, selection, training, utilization, promotion, compensation, benefits, extracurricular programs, and termination are created and implemented without regard to age, ethnicity, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic or category specified by local, state or federal law