Job Summary
Job Description
Cloud Architect
Role Description
The Cloud Architect will define and govern the enterprise-wide cloud infrastructure strategy, ensuring that all cloud solutions are cost-efficient, secure, scalable, and aligned with long-term business objectives. This role covers the full cloud domain—including compute, storage, networking, cloud integration, data governance, and security—and ensures that new cloud applications, migrations, platform upgrades, and operational environments are built on sustainable, optimized architectures.
The Cloud Architect collaborates across all business units to develop cloud infrastructure roadmaps, ensure adherence to cloud architectural standards, and drive cost optimization and efficiency initiatives. They provide leadership in adopting emerging cloud technologies, managing cloud lifecycle transitions, and maintaining strong governance over data and cloud security practice.
Language Requirement
Proficiency in English
Location
Chennai, India
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Azure Cloud Architecture and Strategy
- Define and own the enterprise Azure cloud architecture vision, standards, and reference designs.
- Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions aligned with business, compliance, and operational requirements.
- Develop cloud adoption patterns, landing zone architecture, and governance frameworks for enterprise workloads.
- Provide architectural guidance for cloud modernization, migration, and platform engineering initiatives.
Infrastructure and Platform Design
- Architect Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, and security services for enterprise application hosting.
- Design landing zones, subscription models, resource organization, and network segmentation strategies.
- Establish architecture patterns for high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure design supports performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Security, Governance, and Compliance
- Define and implement Azure governance models including RBAC, Azure Policy, tagging standards, and access controls.
- Establish security architecture controls for secrets management, encryption, key vault usage, logging, and network security.
- Ensure cloud solutions meet internal security, risk, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with security and compliance teams to enforce standards and remediations across cloud environments.
Automation and DevOps Integration
- Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or equivalent IaC tools.
- Integrate Azure architecture with DevOps practices and deployment automation using Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Define reusable templates and automation frameworks to standardize provisioning and configuration.
- Promote automation-first design principles to improve consistency, speed, and operational efficiency.
Monitoring, Reliability, and Operations
- Define monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability standards for Azure environments.
- Architect solutions for operational resilience, patching, backup, disaster recovery, and incident recovery.
- Support root cause analysis for platform issues and provide architectural recommendations for remediation.
- Establish architecture practices that improve service availability, performance, and supportability.
Stakeholder and Technical Leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor to engineering, infrastructure, security, and application teams.
- Review solution designs, provide architecture approvals, and guide implementation decisions.
- Influence technical direction across programs and ensure alignment with enterprise roadmap and standards.
Skill Requirements
Key Competencies, Experiences, and Qualifications:
Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Skills and Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise platform design.
- Strong subject matter expertise in Microsoft Azure architecture and core cloud services.
- Proven experience designing enterprise landing zones, governance frameworks, and secure cloud platforms.
- Hands-on expertise in Azure networking, identity, security, compute, storage, and platform services.
- Experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, and infrastructure as code principles.
- Strong understanding of Azure DevOps and CI/CD integration for cloud deployments.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery, and operational resilience design.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, compliance, access management, and policy enforcement.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated environments is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure certifications such as:
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Azure Administrator Associate
- Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Experience in hybrid cloud and enterprise modernization programs.
- Exposure to cost optimization, cloud operating models, and cloud center of excellence practices.
Ability to lead architecture reviews, design governance, and technical decision-making forums.