Cloud Architect
Who We Are
We are Forescout. We are committed to identifying, protecting and ensuring the compliance of every cyber asset continuously: IT, OT, IoT and IoMT. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our network security platform has helped thousands of our customers and millions of devices mitigate risks.
Team Forescout is passionate about ensuring the security of critical infrastructure, hospitals, power grids, water supply, and the businesses that drive the economy. We believe in the power of innovation, collaboration, and an uncompromising focus on customer success. At Forescout, we thrive on solving complex problems, driving industry leadership, and empowering organizations to safely and securely embrace digital transformation.
If you're ready to work on the front lines of cybersecurity and want to be part of a team that is as passionate as you are about protecting the world’s most vital assets, we want you to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. At Forescout, we're not just building a product; we're building a community of experts who are redefining what's possible in this fast-paced and high-stakes industry.
What You Will Do
You are an experienced cloud architect with years of experience in designing microservices in a cloud native, multi-tenant environment. Your solutions have been proven to be robust and scalable with deployments around the globe. You have brought products to a SaaS market. You enjoy challenging yourself and others around you, and you seek to educate and share your expertise with others. You have experience working with executives and can articulate the complexities of cloud architecture to others.
- Serve as the Global Cloud Architect within the Engineering organization, leading cloud design and implementation efforts.
- Optimize and understand the costs of operating in a cloud environment, providing insights for cost-efficient solutions.
- Assist in the completion of ongoing FedRAMP and IL4/IL5 certifications, ensuring our federal and government customers can access our cloud capabilities
- Understand regional cloud considerations and the need to respect regional laws around data privacy
- Collaborate and advise DevOps teams to establish best practices for maintaining product availability and performance in the cloud.
- Enhance cloud observability, monitoring, and analysis to ensure high reliability and fast issue resolution.
- Estimate costs and level of effort for the creation and ongoing operation of new cloud features and services.
- As the cloud technology expert, maintain documentation, and lead architecture design for scalable and secure cloud applications and solutions.
- Develop and improve enterprise-grade architecture using best practices to ensure data confidentiality, product integrity, and availability.
- Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to distill product vision into architectural patterns for cloud delivery.
- Collaborate with platform architects, product teams, and engineering leaders to build scalable infrastructure supporting the world’s largest IT, IoT, IoMT, and OT networks.
- Work closely with the InfoSec team to ensure that the cloud architecture meets stringent security requirements across all stages of the product lifecycle.
- Continuously identify and evaluate technologies and tools that enhance product performance and development efficiency.
- Maintain and manage the cloud platform architecture blueprints, documenting product components, services, libraries, blocks, and communication flows with internal and external dependencies.
What You Bring to Forescout
- 10+ years of cloud architecture experience, specifically with micro-services and multi-tenant solutions.
- Extensive experience with Azure Cloud; multiple Azure Cloud certifications are a plus, and experience with Google Cloud is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with security compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and IL5.
- Strong understanding of the cybersecurity landscape and experience working with a variety of cybersecurity tools.
- Proven experience in designing, creating, improving, documenting, and extending cloud services.
- Deep understanding of balancing confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements across IT/IoT and OT/IoMT networks.
- Expertise in PKI, authentication mechanisms, and encryption ciphers for inter-platform and inter-process communications.
- Broad knowledge of enterprise services and security tools in large-scale organizations.
- A passion for learning and a curiosity to understand design patterns, architectural decisions, and underlying code.
What Forescout Offers You
- Competitive compensation and benefits including generous PTO policy, RRSP match, and much more
- Collaborative and innovative environment – make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology
- Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development
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Forescout Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value and embrace diversity, equality, inclusion, and collaboration at the core of our “One Team” philosophy. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.