We are seeking a seasoned Cloud Platform Architect with deep DevOps engineering roots to lead the design, delivery, and governance of enterprise-grade cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This is a strategic and hands-on role—you will set the architectural vision, own cross-cloud standards, and guide engineering teams through end-to-end platform implementation. You bring a developer's instinct and an operator's discipline, enabling organisations to move fast without compromising security, reliability, or cost efficiency.
Job Title: Senior Cloud & Devops Architect
Experience: 10+ Years
Location: Pune/Ahmedabad
Educational Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deliver multi-cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, covering compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services.
- Define cloud landing zone strategies, governance frameworks, and account/subscription structures aligned to organisational policies.
- Drive IaC adoption using Terraform, Ansible, or cloud-native tools (CloudFormation / ARM Templates / Deployment Manager / AWS CDK) at enterprise scale.
- Architect and deliver Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE), including cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, RBAC, and node pool strategies.
- Design and govern CI/CD pipeline frameworks supporting trunk-based development, canary, and blue-green deployment strategies.
- Define Helm chart standards for application packaging, versioning, and multi-environment promotion across Kubernetes clusters.
- Implement GitOps workflows using Argo CD and establish internal developer platforms (IDPs) and self-service infrastructure capabilities.
- Champion GitDevSecOps—embedding security gates, SAST/DAST, container scanning, SBOM generation, and Policy as Code (OPA/Conftest) into delivery pipelines.
- Own secret management and ensure compliance with CIS, NIST, and SOC 2 cloud security benchmarks.
- Implement service mesh solutions (Istio) for traffic management, mTLS, observability, and fault injection.
- Design cloud networking covering VPC/VNet, transit gateways, WAF, DNS, private connectivity, and zero-trust access models.
- Lead architecture reviews, contribute to ADRs and RFCs, and act as a trusted advisor to engineering and executive leadership.
- Define FinOps strategies, including reserved instances, rightsizing, Spot workloads, and cost visibility tooling.
- Drive scalability and reliability design — auto-scaling, elastic architectures, capacity planning, and chaos engineering practices.
- Design and implement a full-stack observability platform using Grafana and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
- Define and standardize the collection of metrics, logs, and traces across multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, and GKE).
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence and blameless post-mortems.
Required Skills:
- Strong hands-on expertise across all three major cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, state management, workspaces) and at least one cloud-native IaC tool.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture and operations, including Helm chart authoring, lifecycle management, and multi-cluster patterns.
- Practical experience designing and operating service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent).
- Strong cloud networking knowledge, including VPC/VNet design, transit architectures, private connectivity, and zero-trust models.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining a full observability stack using open-source and/or commercial tooling.
- Strong understanding of Git, DevSecOps principles, and the ability to embed security into platform and delivery pipelines.
- Experience implementing GitOps practices using Argo CD or similar tools.
- Scripting and automation proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.
- Proven experience designing for scale, high availability, and disaster recovery across cloud environments.
- Strong FinOps awareness—ability to architect for cost visibility, accountability, and optimization.
Good to Have:
- Exposure to cloud-native data platforms, streaming architectures, or AI/ML infrastructure.
- Experience with multi-region or active-active architecture patterns.
Certifications (Preferred):
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate or Professional
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of practical experience.
- 10+ years in cloud infrastructure and DevOps roles, with at least 3 years in an architect-level or principal engineer position.
- Proven track record of delivering multi-cloud platform programs for mid-to-large enterprises.
- Experience building platform engineering practices or internal developer platforms from the ground up.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to produce clear architectural diagrams, ADRs, and executive-level presentations.
- Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and hands-on levels depending on organizational need.
