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At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in Artificial Intelligence, risk management, big data, mobile and more.
Cloud Platform
As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enables Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to a platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster.
The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a DevOps culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They will work closely with cross-functional teams, and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Cloud Security Architecture & Platform Leadership:
- Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud architecture aligned with NIST frameworks and industry-recognized cloud security standards, ensuring compliance, resilience, and least-privilege access across cloud environments
- Lead deployment and integration of cloud security posture management platforms with enterprise services including risk management systems, monitoring infrastructure, security information and event management (SIEM), and compliance frameworks
- Architect policy-as-code frameworks for infrastructure security controls, enabling shift-left security and automated compliance validation across multi-cloud environments
- Define and implement secure-by-default infrastructure patterns for cloud account provisioning and service onboarding
Technical Leadership & Expertise:
- Demonstrates thought leadership: Guides and upskills other engineers and clients in cloud best practices; demonstrates expertise with automation and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Deep understanding of AWS services and how to leverage them
- Lead strategic initiatives for cloud-native authentication and authorization, including certificate-based service identity frameworks and fine-grained access control systems
- Partner with middleware and platform engineering teams on secure messaging infrastructure migration from on-premise to cloud-native solutions
- Provide regional timezone coverage for cloud access and security platform operational issues, participating in 24/7 follow-the-sun support model
DevOps & Platform Engineering:
- Past enterprise level experience in DevOps, Software, Infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineering
- Proficient in infrastructure as code practices using technologies such as CDK, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and/or SaltStack
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch with integrated security gates and automated policy enforcement
- Hands-on experience developing and improving all phases of the software development/delivery lifecycle
- Strong grasp of container technology and container orchestration
Observability & Operational Excellence:
- Proficient in one or more enterprise scale observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, FluentD, ELK
- Experience maintaining and improving the reliability of applications and infrastructure
- Implement SLO/SLI frameworks, monitoring strategies, and automated remediation workflows
- Lead root cause analysis for security and access control incidents, implementing preventive measures
Collaboration & Documentation:
- Ability to document solutions, cloud architectural patterns, and best practices to ensure that clients have guidance as needed
- Proven ability to partner with cloud hyperscale partners to define and troubleshoot cloud architectures and service enablements
- Establish trusted partnerships with Tech Risk, Compliance, Platform Engineering, and business unit stakeholders
- Mentor Associate and Analyst-level engineers on platform internals, security best practices, and operational excellence
Software Development & Architecture:
- Solid understanding of Microservices and APIs
- Design and implement automated workflows for security finding management, remediation tracking, and compliance reporting
- Build self-service capabilities for business units to manage security posture and access controls
- Eager to problem solve and troubleshoot issues that may arise day to day
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 6+ years of relevant professional experience with at least 3+ years of familiarity with AWS services
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
- Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring
- Experience in a consultative/advisory role with demonstrated ability to influence executive-level stakeholders
- Experience performing and/or leading root cause analysis following incidents
- Experience in Security or Data engineering preferably in an SRE/DevOps environment
- Practiced in Java, Python, Javascript / Typescript / Node
- Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to present to senior audiences
- Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads and executive level stakeholders
- Comfort with agile operating model and DevOps culture
- Experience with leading large-scale platform migrations and security transformations
- Experience with authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, mTLS, certificate-based authentication)
- Knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) and financial services security requirements
About Goldman Sachs
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has several opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodation for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this Seattle, Washington, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Seattle
JOB FUNCTION
Security Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
SALARY RANGE
USD 150,000 - 250,000
What We Do
At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in Artificial Intelligence, risk management, big data, mobile and more.
Cloud Platform
As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enables Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to a platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster.
The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a DevOps culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They will work closely with cross-functional teams, and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Cloud Security Architecture & Platform Leadership:
- Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud architecture aligned with NIST frameworks and industry-recognized cloud security standards, ensuring compliance, resilience, and least-privilege access across cloud environments
- Lead deployment and integration of cloud security posture management platforms with enterprise services including risk management systems, monitoring infrastructure, security information and event management (SIEM), and compliance frameworks
- Architect policy-as-code frameworks for infrastructure security controls, enabling shift-left security and automated compliance validation across multi-cloud environments
- Define and implement secure-by-default infrastructure patterns for cloud account provisioning and service onboarding
Technical Leadership & Expertise:
- Demonstrates thought leadership: Guides and upskills other engineers and clients in cloud best practices; demonstrates expertise with automation and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Deep understanding of AWS services and how to leverage them
- Lead strategic initiatives for cloud-native authentication and authorization, including certificate-based service identity frameworks and fine-grained access control systems
- Partner with middleware and platform engineering teams on secure messaging infrastructure migration from on-premise to cloud-native solutions
- Provide regional timezone coverage for cloud access and security platform operational issues, participating in 24/7 follow-the-sun support model
DevOps & Platform Engineering:
- Past enterprise level experience in DevOps, Software, Infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineering
- Proficient in infrastructure as code practices using technologies such as CDK, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and/or SaltStack
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch with integrated security gates and automated policy enforcement
- Hands-on experience developing and improving all phases of the software development/delivery lifecycle
- Strong grasp of container technology and container orchestration
Observability & Operational Excellence:
- Proficient in one or more enterprise scale observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, FluentD, ELK
- Experience maintaining and improving the reliability of applications and infrastructure
- Implement SLO/SLI frameworks, monitoring strategies, and automated remediation workflows
- Lead root cause analysis for security and access control incidents, implementing preventive measures
Collaboration & Documentation:
- Ability to document solutions, cloud architectural patterns, and best practices to ensure that clients have guidance as needed
- Proven ability to partner with cloud hyperscale partners to define and troubleshoot cloud architectures and service enablements
- Establish trusted partnerships with Tech Risk, Compliance, Platform Engineering, and business unit stakeholders
- Mentor Associate and Analyst-level engineers on platform internals, security best practices, and operational excellence
Software Development & Architecture:
- Solid understanding of Microservices and APIs
- Design and implement automated workflows for security finding management, remediation tracking, and compliance reporting
- Build self-service capabilities for business units to manage security posture and access controls
- Eager to problem solve and troubleshoot issues that may arise day to day
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 6+ years of relevant professional experience with at least 3+ years of familiarity with AWS services
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
- Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring
- Experience in a consultative/advisory role with demonstrated ability to influence executive-level stakeholders
- Experience performing and/or leading root cause analysis following incidents
- Experience in Security or Data engineering preferably in an SRE/DevOps environment
- Practiced in Java, Python, Javascript / Typescript / Node
- Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to present to senior audiences
- Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads and executive level stakeholders
- Comfort with agile operating model and DevOps culture
- Experience with leading large-scale platform migrations and security transformations
- Experience with authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, mTLS, certificate-based authentication)
- Knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) and financial services security requirements
About Goldman Sachs
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has several opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodation for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this Seattle, Washington, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Seattle
JOB FUNCTION
Security Engineering
DIVISION
Engineering Division
SALARY RANGE
USD 150,000 - 250,000
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Cloud Security Architect
Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
Your Australian bachelor's degree qualifies under E-3 rules, but your transcript should clearly show coursework in computer science, information security, or a related technical field. Gaps between your degree and your job title raise LCA scrutiny.
Target employers with active cloud infrastructure programs
Cloud Security Architect roles almost always sit inside large-scale cloud migration or DevSecOps programs. Search DOL's Foreign Labor Application Gateway for LCA filings under SOC code 15-1212 to identify companies already sponsoring this role type.
Confirm your employer files the LCA before you resign
The E-3 process can't start until your employer submits and receives a certified LCA from DOL. Don't give notice in Australia until you have written confirmation that your employer has initiated that filing, not just promised to do it.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork
Cloud Security Architect applications require precise LCA wage documentation and a clear specialty occupation justification. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer to consulate appointment, reducing the risk of delays from incomplete submissions.
Prepare a technical scope summary for your consulate interview
Consular officers assess whether your role genuinely requires a bachelor's degree. Bring a one-page summary describing the specific cloud platforms, security frameworks, and architecture responsibilities your role involves, written in plain language rather than job-description boilerplate.
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Find Cloud Security Architect JobsCloud Security Architect E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find Cloud Security Architect jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles that include E-3 sponsorship. It surfaces Cloud Security Architect positions at employers already familiar with the E-3 process, so you're not spending time educating hiring teams about a visa type they've never filed before.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Cloud Security Architect role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3 visa?
Yes. Cloud Security Architect is consistently classified under SOC code 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) and related codes, which require at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a closely related field. The DOL and USCIS treat this as a qualifying specialty occupation for E-3 purposes, provided your job duties match the technical scope and your degree aligns with the role.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Cloud Security Architect roles?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, so your sponsorship timeline isn't subject to random selection. H-1B petitions compete in a lottery capped at 85,000 per year, and many strong candidates aren't selected. For Australian cloud security professionals, the E-3 also processes faster through consular channels, and your employer avoids the premium processing fees and lottery preparation costs associated with H-1B filings.
Can I transfer my E-3 visa to a new Cloud Security Architect employer in the U.S.?
Yes, but you need a new LCA and a new visa stamp for each employer. The E-3 is employer-specific, so a job change restarts the filing process. If you're already in the U.S. on E-3 status, your new employer can file a change of status petition, but you'll need a fresh consulate appointment if you travel internationally before that's approved.
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