Senior Cloud Architect

About the Role Paramount's Infrastructure & Media Technology team is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to define architectural standards, security frameworks and automation goals for all cloud deployments. This high-impact, strategic role will shape cloud policy over the next 3–5 years and help Paramount deploy applications in a cost-conscious, secure and repeatable way across a globally distributed team.

What You'll Do

• Hands-on engineering to migrate workloads between public cloud providers.
• Define strategy for migrating applications from various Linux versions (Amazon Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.) to a standard running on Oracle Linux.
• Collaborate and educate on standards for foundational cloud architecture, automation framework/tools/taxonomy, CI/CD methodology, and Security Governance (in collaboration with Information Security).
• Partner with Cloud Engineering to design infrastructure architecture, cloud network design, infrastructure automation and security best practices.
• Drive infrastructure strategy for security operations and lead a team of Infrastructure Security engineers to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Continually evaluate the startup market for innovative solutions in infrastructure automation, cloud security and observability.
• Proficiency with Chef Automation Enterprise; manage the full lifecycle of the Chef Automation Enterprise platform, including version upgrades, agent updates, and ongoing maintenance; develop and maintain Chef cookbooks to automate configuration management across a managed server ecosystem; drive the certification process for new operating systems and software.
• Collaborate with Paramount Skydance Information Security to align with company security standards.
• Lead by example to build a highly effective, collaborative team culture that embraces learning and challenges the status quo.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 6+ years’ experience spanning at least 2 IT disciplines including technical architecture, network design, application development, middleware, database, OS or DevOps.
• Deep knowledge of multiple cloud provider offerings (AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure).
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript or Terraform or Golang.
• Experience with large-scale migrations of enterprise systems to public cloud.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones and diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Experience designing, implementing and managing virtual private networks in public cloud ecosystems and connectivity to the physical layer.
• 5+ years’ experience with AWS/Linux/Terraform/Chef.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tooling to enhance and accelerate coding/automation tasks (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Co-Pilot, Claude Code).
• Proven ability to influence peers on standardization, automation and shift-left principles.
• Demonstrated ability to implement architectural standards in large organizations with diverse teams and business requirements.
• Experience drafting statements of work and providing feedback to legal on data services contracts.
• Strong experience building a highly effective, collaborative team culture that supports learning and challenges the status quo.
• Highly effective at communicating complex ideas in easy-to-understand language.

Nice to Have

• Experience leveraging AI tooling to accelerate coding and automation tasks.
• Track record of influencing cross-functional teams and driving standardization across large organizations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: USD 139,200 – 208,800 per year.