Senior Staff Cloud Architect

About the Position

Join ServiceNow as a Senior Staff Cloud Architect to lead enterprise-scale cloud architecture initiatives across private, sovereign, and public cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise-scale solutions spanning private datacenters, sovereign cloud, and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Evaluate and benchmark emerging technologies, services, and architectural patterns prior to production adoption.
• Drive hardware enhancements from original concept through final implementation across all system architectures and assess impact of design decisions on performance, security, and capacity.
• Evaluate and test new products, frequently prior to general availability. You will help automate evaluations, determine issues with designs, help identify root cause issues, and drive vendors internal and external to resolve issues.
• Work closely with engineering and infrastructure teams across the organization to understand the impacts of new software platform enhancements on the private and public cloud stack.
• Lead research and development efforts to identify emerging cloud, hardware, and software technologies, architectures, and designs with hands-on opportunities to benchmark, validate, and determine viability for future system designs.
• Serve as top-tier escalation for complex issues.
• Conduct cross-domain root cause analysis for complex infrastructure issues, coordinating investigations across database, OS, networking, and hardware layers.

Requirements

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving.
• 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE), or related field; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years evaluating, cost-modeling and implementing new datacenter technologies, including managing multi-vendor RFPs.
• 10+ years profiling and evaluating Linux and database performance.
• 7+ years hands-on with AWS, Azure, or GCP (compute, storage, networking, managed databases, cost optimization).
• 3+ years with Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure at production scale.
• Proven ability to lead complex transformation initiatives across multiple organization units.
• Thought leader and mentor with proven force-multiplier impact.
• Excellent communication and customer skills, conflict management, and interpersonal skills. Must be able to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience.

We Offer

• Base pay of $190,900 - $334,100, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits.
• Health plans, including flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) Plan with company match.
• ESPP, matching donations.
• Flexible time away plan and family leave programs.

About the Company

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone-freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow-helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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