Clorox is the place that’s committed to growth – for our people and our brands. Guided by our purpose and values, and with people at the center of everything we do, we believe every one of us can make a positive impact on consumers, communities, and teammates. Join our team. #CloroxIsThePlace (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=cloroxistheplace&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7079847624048001024) **Your role at Clorox:** We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Enterprise Cloud Architect. At Clorox, your strategic vision and technical skillset will help lay the foundation for a future where possibilities are limitless, and innovation knows no bounds. In this position, you will play an integral role on a team that holds the key to unlocking the true potential of the digital age, driving progress, and empowering Clorox to transcend boundaries and achieve greatness. The Enterprise Cloud Architect is responsible for overseeing Clorox's cloud computing strategy, designing, planning, and managing the cloud infrastructure to ensure it aligns with business goals, technology standards, and policies. This role requires selecting the most suitable cloud services from providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP to meet the organization's needs. Additionally, you will collaborate with other Clorox IT teams to implement and maintain cloud-based applications and services, optimizing performance and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. **In this role, you will:** + **Strategic Technical Leadership:** Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners to understand requirements, gather feedback, and align cloud initiatives with strategic objectives. Translate complex technical concepts into clear, understandable language for non-technical stakeholders, helping them grasp the benefits, risks, and implications of cloud solutions. Facilitate discussions, workshops, and planning sessions to make informed decisions about cloud adoption, architecture design, and technology selection. Foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within cross-functional teams, encouraging open communication and constructive feedback. + **Cloud strategy development:** Create and implement cloud adoption plans, including analysis for Cloud readiness, application design choices and migration strategies to the cloud, considering factors like workload dependencies, business criticality, data sensitivity and business priorities. + **Cloud architecture design:** Conduct comprehensive analysis and design to create secure, resilient, scalable cloud architectures using various cloud services to meet business requirements. Evaluate offerings of cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Azure, GCP and AWS that best suit the organization’s needs. Assess vendors, applications, and services as needed by working with key stakeholders to ensure architectural fit. + **Systems Integration design:** Work with developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to integrate cloud solutions into existing systems. Develop integration architectures and patterns to connect cloud-based services with existing on-premises systems and applications. Ensure single sign-on (SSO) solutions and identity federation mechanisms are in place to enable secure access and identity management across hybrid cloud environments. + **Cost optimization:** Analyze and optimize cloud usage through techniques such as rightsizing, instance reservations, and workload distribution to ensure cost-efficiency. Collaborate with procurement and finance teams to optimize cloud spending and manage budgets effectively. + **Performance monitoring:** Ensure comprehensive monitoring frameworks and observability tools are in place to track key performance metrics, resource utilization and service availability. Assist as needed in analyzing monitoring data to identify areas for optimization across the Cloud infrastructure and applications. Anticipate future capacity requirements and plan for scalability by designing architectures that can accommodate growth without compromising performance or cost-efficiency. + **Disaster recovery and business continuity:** Assist in the design of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans to mitigate the impact of outages, data loss, and other disruptions to business operations. Ensure automated backup and data replication mechanisms are used to create redundant copies of critical data and applications, ensuring rapid recovery during a disaster. + **Technical documentation:** Create and maintain detailed technical documentation regarding cloud infrastructure, architecture design and implementation guidelines for reference and knowledge sharing. + **Security management:** Collaborate on the design and implementation of robust security measures and controls to protect cloud data and applications, such as encryption, network segmentation, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS). Ensure deployment of security monitoring and logging tools to detect and respond to security incidents, ensuring rapid threat identification and mitigation. + **Compliance management:** Ensure cloud operations comply with relevant industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and organizational policies and standards. Work with auditors and regulators as needed to demonstrate compliance. Contribute to developing and maintaining cloud governance frameworks, policies and procedures. + Participating in architectural discussions and decision-making processes to ensure alignment with business goals and best practices. + Providing mentorship and guidance to junior team members on cloud architecture principles, best practices and technologies. + Taking part in agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retroactives to provide updates on cloud-related tasks and initiatives. **What we look for:** + 5 plus years of Cloud Computing, including the different cloud deployment and service models, an understanding of the various services offered by cloud providers. Proficiency in one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), including understanding their respective offerings, pricing models, management tools, and best practices. (Must have Azure experience) + 5 plus years of demonstrated experience with applying architectural principles such as scalability, reliability, availability, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness to develop robust cloud solutions and familiarity with design patterns specific to cloud computing, such as microservices architecture, serverless computing, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems design. + 3 plus years of experience with defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager. In addition, you must possess a keen understanding of version control systems like Git. + Proficiency in virtual networking concepts such as virtual private clouds (VPCs), subnets, internet gateways, NAT gateways, route tables, and network access control lists (ACLs). Knowledge of cloud-native security features like network security groups (NSGs), firewalls, distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, and virtual private network (VPN) connections can also prove useful. + Well-versed in cloud security best practices, including data encryption, secure access management, the least privilege principle, network segmentation, and identity federation. You should also be familiar with industry-specific compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 and know how to implement controls to comply with them. Proficiency in security monitoring tools and techniques is an added advantage. + Deep understanding of various integration techniques, such as API integration, messaging systems, and data integration. Proven experience in designing solutions that enable seamless data exchange and workflow automation between different systems, ensuring interoperability and smooth operation in hybrid cloud environments. + 3 plus years of experience with managing container technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Includes experience with designing architectures that leverage containers and orchestration tools to achieve modularity, scalability, and agility in cloud-native applications, enabling efficient resource utilization and rapid deployment. + 3 plus years of experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Powershell to automate routine tasks, deploy infrastructure, and manage cloud resources programmatically. Includes experience in leveraging infrastructure automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to automate configuration management, provisioning, and deployment processes, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery in cloud environments. + Demonstrated strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in cloud environments. Proficiency in debugging tools and techniques is essential. + Ability to lead by influence and inspire cross-functional teams and drive successful cloud initiatives. Experience in mentoring and guiding team members, fostering collaboration, and promoting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts, delegate tasks, and empower team members to achieve common goals. Demonstrated ability in strong decision-making, prioritization of tasks, and management of resources effectively to ensure successful project outcomes. \#LI-HYBRID **Workplace type:** Hybrid (3 Days in Office, 2 Days WFH) **We seek out and celebrate diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re looking for fresh perspectives, a desire to bring your best, and a non-stop drive to keep growing and learning.** **At Clorox, we have a** **Culture of Inclusion. We believe our values-based culture connects to our purpose and helps our people be the best versions of themselves, professionally and personally. This means building a workplace where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate in our Clorox community. Learn more about our I&D program & initiatives** **here (https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/idea/) .** **[U.S.]Additional Information:** At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more. We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area. –Zone A: $121,900 - $240,100 –Zone B: $111,700 - $220,100 –Zone C: $101,600 - $200,100 All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process. This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies. Please apply directly to our job postings and do not submit your resume to any person via text message. Clorox does not conduct text-based interviews and encourages you to be cautious of anyone posing as a Clorox recruiter via unsolicited texts during these uncertain times. To all recruitment agencies: Clorox (and its brand families) does not accept agency resumes. 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We’re always looking for fresh perspectives, a desire to bring your best, and a nonstop drive to keep growing and learning. Learn more about our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Allyship (IDEA) journey here (https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/idea/) . The Clorox Company and its subsidiaries are an EEO/AA/Minorities/Women/LGBT/Protected Veteran/Disabled employer. Learn more at Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law . Clorox is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans during the hiring and interview process. If you need assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact us at people@clorox.com . Please note: this inbox is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry about positions/application statuses. The Clorox Company and its subsidiaries are an EEO/AA/ Minorities/Women/LGBT/Protected Veteran/Disabled employer.