# Staff Engineer - Architecture Team
**Company:** [Illumio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/illumio)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Salary:** $192K-$230K
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, Spring, REST APIs
**Posted:** 2025-03-24
> Designs, deploys, and optimizes scalable cloud architectures on AWS/Azure/GCP with Kubernetes for cybersecurity platform. Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure high availability, security, and performance in production environments.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Deliver cloud architecture that solves business problems while balancing architecture and business margins
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product managers, developers, DevOps) to understand requirements and architect scalable cloud solutions
- Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based architecture using best practices for efficiency, scalability, availability, performance, and security
- Evaluate and select cloud technologies, platforms, and tools including **Kubernetes**
- Optimize systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and operational issues
- Stay current with trends in cloud computing, distributed systems, and cybersecurity

## Requirements
- Proven experience as **Cloud Architect** or similar, designing/implementing production cloud solutions
- Extensive **AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP** experience at API/programming level (networking/security controls a plus)
- Experience in **Java**, **Python**, or similar
- **REST API** client experience
- **Gang of Four** design patterns
- Built highly scalable distributed systems from ground up
- **Kubernetes** and **Docker** containerization knowledge
- **CloudFormation**, **Terraform** (nice to have)
- Working knowledge of **Spring** or similar ecosystems (nice to have)
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, and agile collaboration skills
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