Qualcomm IT is seeking a Cloud Architect/Engineer to define, implement, and scale enterprise cloud platforms across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and hybrid environments. This role requires a senior technical leader with strong enterprise cloud experience and operational knowledge. The ideal candidate will drive alignment across infrastructure, security, networking, and application teams while establishing governance and operational standards. This position is full-time and requires onsite work in San Diego, CA.

• 10+ years of IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture experience with a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field, OR 14+ years of equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise cloud environments in AWS, OCI, Azure, or similar large-scale cloud platforms.
• Practical experience with AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Route53, CloudWatch, security services, and hybrid networking architectures.
• Advanced Terraform expertise including reusable module strategy, remote state management, infrastructure automation, policy enforcement, and multi-environment IaC governance.
• Strong understanding of enterprise cloud governance, FinOps principles, cloud security architecture, compliance controls, operational risk management, and secure infrastructure design.

• Define and help evolve enterprise cloud platform strategy across OCI, AWS, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Architect enterprise cloud networking solutions including VCN/VPC design and hybrid connectivity.
• Drive secure-by-default cloud platform architecture including IAM, federation, RBAC, and encryption.
• Establish and enforce cloud governance standards including tagging policies and resource lifecycle management.
• Own and mature Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
• Establish CI/CD and GitOps operating models using GitHub Actions, OCI DevOps, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling.
• Support cloud-native platforms including Kubernetes environments such as Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Amazon EKS.
• Partner with infrastructure, application, database, networking, and security teams to support workload migration and operational readiness initiatives.
• Drive observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices across cloud environments.
• Communicate platform strategy, operational health, architectural standards, and investment rationale to senior IT leadership.

• Qualcomm offers competitive compensation, annual bonuses, stock programs, comprehensive healthcare coverage, retirement plans, wellness programs, parental leave, flexible work options, and professional development opportunities.