Sr Platform Architect

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Description:

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3

Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.

That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant.

We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.

Check out the McDonald’s Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.

This role is within the GTIO, dedicated to providing current and efficient technology that supports McDonald’s operations. We provide crucial technology services such as Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. Our aim is to consistently provide an engaging, important, and straightforward experience for our customers.

The Senior Cloud Security Architect role belongs to the Cloud Infrastructure and Operations within Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations. Working alongside cloud security engineering and product roles, this position reports into the Director of Cloud Security and delivers specialized expertise for present and upcoming planning, technical frameworks, models, and protocols. It engages closely with Cloud Platform Engineering teams (Operations, SRE, Dev Ops), Cloud Enablement Office as well as Enterprise Architecture and Engineering groups, to uphold a cohesive enterprise technology strategy and direction.

This is an excellent opportunity for an expert technology leader to help transform infrastructure and service management products. The work will affect the entire McDonald’s environment.

• Participate in architecture and build discussions that produce requirements.
• Interpret requirements and code in a manner that encourages re-use and maintainability.
• Interpret secure framework requirements and translate into significant cloud-based requirements that meet or exceed company policy and standards.
• Evaluate present cloud system builds and models compared to company security policy, standards, and well-architected frameworks, looking for ways to bring them in line with standards.
• Understand underlying technologies to build optimized, efficient templates/blueprints.
• Collaborate in an agile-based environment and provide good daily feedback on team stand-up calls.
• Work effectively in a sophisticated technical environment and embrace new technologies.
• Chip in to a well-informed cloud strategy and handle the adaptation process.
• Define new and/or consistently refine security reference architectures and patterns in accordance with company policies and standards.
• Understand key native cloud computing security measures and apply them in architecture builds.
• Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Collaborate with Cloud Dev Sec Ops  and Operations teams to integrate security controls into cloud provisioning and Dev Ops lifecycle.
• Assist cloud consumers in adopting and adhering to reference architectures in support of security baselines.

• Willingness and…