Colonial has provided a wide range of opportunities for job candidates who are highly qualified, skilled, motivated and team players. Employees find exciting opportunities to grow and develop their careers at a stable company which offers a generous compensation and benefits package that includes annual incentive bonuses, retirement plans, insurance coverage and a host of other features that support a happy, active, productive and rewarding life. Come to Colonial, a great place to work, where people matter most, and where safety 24/7 is paramount.

Ready to work for Colonial Pipeline Company?

Are you intrigued by the thought of being part of revolutionizing the energy industry and a new era in the pipeline industry? Do you want to be a part of a company that is obsessed with excellence in everything we do? A company growing and expanding our business that is full of opportunity? If so, we are seeking smart, safety focused, and energetic professionals to join our team to help us to the next level of excellence!

What is it that we do at Colonial Pipeline Company?

Colonial Pipeline is the largest refined products pipeline in the United States, transporting more than 100 million gallons or 2.5 million barrels per day. Colonial transports various grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel, and fuels for the U.S. military through a pipeline system. Colonial transports approximately 45 percent of all fuel consumed on the East Coast, providing refined products to more than 50 million Americans.

About the Principal Cloud Architect Position

As a Principal Cloud Architect, you will design and provide technical guidance for the implementation, support and maintenance of cloud-based technologies, services, and platforms as a member of Colonial’s growing first-class architecture practice. This position is a strategic role and requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to analyze business needs, develop architectural strategies, and ensure the scalability, availability, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure to achieve business outcome-driven results for the company. The Principal Cloud Architect is a critical member of the Architecture Team working collaboratively across Technology and Business Units to enable CPC business functions through technology.

What You Get to Do:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into robust and scalable cloud-based solutions.

• Design and architect cloud infrastructure that supports workload, data management, and security requirements, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

• Assess the Company’s current and desired cloud maturity. Iterate the company’s existing Cloud Strategy with the objective of advancing the Company’s cloud maturity, keeping it up to date and relevant to current and projected needs.

• Develop and provide technical guidance for the implementation of cloud security strategies, including access controls, encryption, identity and access management, threat detection, and incident response.

• Evaluate and recommend appropriate cloud technologies, platforms, and services based on their capabilities, pricing models, suitability for specific projects or to meet business needs, and industry best practices.

• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application architectures for cloud deployment, considering data storage, compute resources, and network configurations.

• Conduct regular security assessments and audits of cloud environments to identify vulnerabilities and provide recommendations for remediation plans to enhance our security posture.

• Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of cloud-based systems, applications, and services. Recommendscalability measures to handle increased workloads and peak demand periods.

• Develop strategies to optimize cloud costs and drive cost-efficiency across the organization's cloud infrastructure.

• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies, data management, and security best practices, and provide guidance on their adoption.

• Work with the Director of Architecture, the Enterprise Architect, and your peer architects on specific initiatives designed to advance the maturity of the company’s architecture practice.

What You Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information management, engineering, business administration, or related field from an accredited college or university; will consider a combination of experience and/or education.

• Ideally, 10+years of progressive advancement in appropriate technical and/or software engineering roles for cloud solutions, including the architecting of cloud solutions.

• Including experience with implementation, deployment, and support experience for public cloud services and infrastructure.

• Direct experience with Cloud ready or native architectures, in particular architecting solutions on public cloud platforms such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.

• Strong knowledge and experience in application architecture, cloud deployment models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), DevSecOps, data management principles (including data modeling, database design, ETL processes and data warehousing), design patterns, and cloud patterns.

• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, such as containers, serverless computing, and microservices architecture.

• Practical experience with cloud security, organization, and governance including identifying and mitigating risk in cloud environments.

• Experience with digital transformation and change management.

• An understanding of architectural tradeoffs and the ability to communicate and present architectural decisions to all partners.

• Ability to translate and distill complex technical concepts into easy-to-understand solutions and constructs for a variety of executive, business, and partner audiences. Strong relationship-building skills, fostering an ability to influence without authority.

• Understanding of financial concepts to support budgeting, cost benefit analysis, and business case development.

• Curiosity, a love of continual learning, and a fearless approach to asking questions.

• Recognition and respect for the knowledge and potential contributions from everyone up and down the organization. Excellent time management, documentation, communication, and written skills.

• Commitment to consistently adhere to policies and procedures and be a positive example for others by demonstrating the Company’s core values of Respect, Accountability, Innovation, Safety, and Excellence in completing work assignments.

• Self-motivated, have phenomenal work ethic and looking for the right company to support your growth.

Got Extra to Bring ?

• Masters incomputer science, information management, engineering, business administrationor related field from an accredited college or university.

• Experience in Oil & Gas industry and/or in a regulated industry.

• Ideally, 3+ years of experience in one or more relevant architecture roles, e.g., Business, Infrastructure, Application, Security or Data architecture.

• Ideally, 10+ years of progressive advancement in appropriate technical and/or software engineering roles for cloud solutions, including the architecting of cloud solutions, implementation, deployment, and support experience for public cloud services and infrastructure.

• Experience with serverless, container, and automation technologies in GCP and Azure.

• One or more architecture or engineering Cloud certifications, such as: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architecture Expert, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), CompTIA Cloud+, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).

• Experience or familiarity with both Information (IT) and Operational (OT) technologies.

• Understanding of the Perdue model, a framework for relationships between industrial control systems and business networks.

Advantages of Working at Colonial Pipeline Company:

Getting to work for a company that helps to meet our county’s energy needs and keeps us moving!

Team members who care about each other while accomplishing remarkable things.

Highly competitive benefits – Check out Colonial’s Total Rewards (https://www.colpipe.com/careers/benefits-and-total-rewards)

Are you up to the challenge? What are you waiting for? Apply today!

Colonial Pipeline is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other reason prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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Colonial Pipeline Company operates the world’s largest pipeline of its kind. It delivers refined petroleum products – gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel and fuels for the U.S. military – through a network of 5,500 miles of underground pipe buried under more than 3,000 miles of right of way in the Southern and Eastern United States. A vital part of the nation’s infrastructure, Colonial places the highest emphasis on safe operations that protect its employees as well as the communities in which we live and serve, and the environment along the pipeline route.