Senior Cloud Architect (all genders)

Lam is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead our evolution of AWS and Azure into true internal developer platforms-secure, reliable, and frictionless foundations that enable product teams to ship customer value rapidly and safely. You will be the company's subject matter expert for all things cloud, owning the strategy, architecture, and hands-on delivery of platform capabilities, while designing, developing, and supporting endto-end automation across the stack. You will drive advanced prototyping of new cloud services and capabilities, validating business value quickly, and will rapidly accelerate our technical maturity in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Ansible), cloud platform governance, and developer experience. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role that blends architecture, platform engineering, DevEx, and SRE practices to create paved roads ("golden paths") that scale across Lam.

What you'll do

Platform Architecture & Strategy

• Own the cloud platform reference architecture and roadmaps across AWS and Azure; align with enterprise architecture, security, data, and app teams.
• Define and maintain golden paths (IaC modules, pipeline templates, reference stacks) for common workloads (containers, serverless, data, analytics, batch).
• Establish multi-cloud landing zones (AWS Organizations + Control Tower; Azure Management Groups + Landing Zones) with policy, identity, and network guardrails.

Developer Platform & Experience

• Build an internal developer platform (IDP) that abstracts complexity and provides self-service: project scaffolding, environment creation, CI/CD, observability, and secrets management.
• Curate platform catalogs/registries (Terraform module registry, container base images, reusable pipeline templates).
• Partner with product/engineering teams to eliminate friction and adopt platform standards; champion platform SLAs/SLOs and intake processes.

IaC & Automation (Terraform + Ansible)

• Lead standardization of Terraform (workspaces, state mgmt, backends, code structure, version pinning, testing with Terratest/checkov, policy-as-code).
• Lead Ansible usage patterns for configuration mgmt, immutable infra patterns where appropriate, and orchestration of provisioning-to-config.
• Drive pipeline-native IaC (GitOps principles, PR-based workflows, security scans, unit/integration tests, drift detection, and change approvals).

Security, Governance, and Compliance

• Design identity-first architectures (Azure AD/Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM), role-based access models, and secrets management (Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).
• Implement and enforce policy-as-code (Azure Policy, OPA, Conftest) and continuous compliance.
• Build secure-by-default blueprints: network segmentation, private endpoints, encryption, vulnerability mgmt, and SBOM/SLSA practices.

SRE, Observability, and Operations

• Embed SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, chaos/gamedays.
• Standardize observability: logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts (e.g., Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Grafana).
• Establish runbooks and playbooks for common events; integrate with ChatOps/ITSM.

Prototyping & Technical R&D

• Run rapid prototypes/PoCs for new capabilities (e.g., Landing Zone Accelerator enhancements, data mesh patterns, EKS/AKS platforms, serverless/event-driven).
• Produce reference implementations with documentation, guardrails, and adoption guides; define measurable value and rollout plans.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

• Partner with Finance and engineering for showback/chargeback, budgets, and anomaly detection.
• Provide patterns and tooling for cost-aware architectures (rightsizing, autoscaling, scheduling, storage lifecycle policies

Coaching & Influence

• Mentor senior engineers and architects; lead communities of practice.
• Define standards, guidelines, and review processes (architecture review board, design reviews, threat modeling).
• Evangelize platform capabilities and best practices through demos, docs, and training., Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories - On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. 'On-site Flex' you'll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. 'Virtual Flex' you'll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.
• Wellbeing: Programs designed to support your individual needs, help you achieve personal goals, and incentivize you with rewards
• Stock: Discounted employee stock purchase program
• Parental Bonding: 16 weeks fully paid bonding leave for all new parents
• Recognition: Peer-to-peer award program designed to recognize excellence and celebrate success
• Pension: Annual pension contribution that increases with tenure

• 12+ years in cloud/platform architecture or SRE/DevOps leadership roles; 5+ years hands-on with both AWS and Azure in enterprise settings.
• Expert in Terraform (modules, registries, testing, state mgmt) and Ansible (roles, collections, CI integration).
• Deep knowledge of AWS (e.g., Organizations/Control Tower, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) and Azure (Management Groups/Landing Zones, VNets, Entra ID, AKS, Functions, Key Vault, Monitor).
• Proven delivery of internal developer platforms, golden paths, or platform engineering initiatives at scale.
• Strong grasp of security engineering (IAM design, secrets, key management, network security, container security, vulnerability mgmt) and policy-as-code.
• Proficiency with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI), artifact registries, and pipeline security.
• Experience with observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch), SRE practices, and production operations.
• Excellent communication, influence, and executive storytelling skills; ability to set strategy and lead hands-on.

Core Competencies

• Platform Mindset: Product thinking, developer empathy, lifecycle ownership, and SLAs/SLOs for platform capabilities.
• Automation & Quality: Bias for code, testing, and continuous improvement; remove toil.
• Security by Default: Defense-in-depth, least privilege, provable compliance.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Align across security, networking, data, finance, and product teams.
• Outcome Orientation: Measurable improvements to speed, reliability, cost, and risk.

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At Lam Research, we create equipment that drives technological advancements in the semiconductor industry. Our innovative solutions enable chipmakers to power progress in nearly all aspects of modern life, and it takes each member of our team to make it possible. Across our organization, our employees come to work and change the world. We take on the toughest challenges with precision and accuracy. We push for the next big semiconductor breakthrough. We lead the way in one of the most critical and fast-moving industries on the planet. And we do it together, with deep connections and limitless collaboration. The impact we have on the world is made possible by focusing on our people. So we recognize and celebrate our teams' achievements. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone's contribution and voice has value. We evaluate and evolve our offerings, so our people receive the support and empowerment to do meaningful things for their lives, careers, and communities. Because at Lam, we believe that when people are the priority and they're inspired to unleash the power of innovation for a better world together, anything is possible., This position will be occupied in Villach. It is subject to the Austrian Collective Bargaining Agreement for Employees in the Metal Technology Industry (https://www.metalltechnischeindustrie.at/fileadmin/content/Dokumente/Kollektivvertrag/KV-2025_2026/FMTI_Mindesgehaltstabelle_2025.pdf) in occupation group G. A higher payment is negotiable depending on expertise and skills. The monthly salary is paid 14 times per year. Please follow the link on the below section 'Employment in Austria' for further information. Villach - a great place to live and work Follow the link www.welcome2villach.at and you will find on the spot the most important information about living, working and studying in and around Villach/Austria. Our commitment We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results., Lam Research, headquartered in the Silicon Valley in California, employs more than 17,000 employees worldwide and is one of the world's leading providers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Lam's wafer fabrication equipment and services allows chipmakers to build smaller, faster, and better performing electronic devices. It's why nearly every advanced chip today is built with Lam Research technology. In Austria, Lam Research employs more than 850 employees and develops and manufactures the equipment for wafer cleaning.