Senior Technical Architect

Job Summary

The Cloud Technical Architect will be responsible for designing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions. The role will provide technical leadership across cloud architecture, migration, modernization, security, DevSecOps, automation, and platform engineering, while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Design end-to-end cloud architecture for enterprise applications and infrastructure.Develop cloud migration and modernization strategies covering rehost, replatform, refactor and cloud-native transformation.Define architecture for IaaS, PaaS, containers, Kubernetes, serverless and microservices-based solutions.Design highly available, scalable, resilient and disaster-recovery-ready cloud environments.Establish landing zones, networking, IAM, security controls, monitoring and governance frameworks.Provide architecture leadership across Azure/AWS/GCP, depending on the customer environment.Design hybrid and multi-cloud integration patterns for enterprise workloads.Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation or equivalent technologies.Define CI/CD and DevSecOps architecture using platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab.Review application and infrastructure architectures for performance, security, scalability and operational readiness.Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices, including right-sizing and consumption optimization.Define observability architecture using logging, monitoring, tracing and alerting solutions.Conduct architecture reviews, technical assessments, PoCs and solution evaluations.Create HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, standards and technical roadmaps.Collaborate with application, security, infrastructure, network, DevOps and business teams.Mentor engineering teams and provide technical governance throughout solution delivery.

Skill Requirements

Cloud Platforms

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• Compute, storage, networking, databases, IAM and managed cloud services
• Hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architecture

Cloud-Native Technologies

• Kubernetes, Docker and container platforms
• Microservices and API architecture
• Serverless and event-driven architecture

Automation & DevOps

• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD pipelines
• Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab
• Configuration and deployment automation

Security

• IAM/RBAC and Zero Trust principles
• Network and application security
• Encryption, secrets management and security controls
• Cloud security architecture and DevSecOps

Architecture & Operations

• High availability and disaster recovery
• Scalability and performance engineering
• Monitoring, observability and SRE principles
• Cloud cost management and FinOps

Other Requirements

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect ExpertAWS Certified Solutions Architect - ProfessionalGoogle Professional Cloud Architect TOGAF Kubernetes / Terraform certifications would be advantageous