Principal Cloud Architect - Automation & IaC

Who are you :

You are a Senior/Principal Cloud Architect with 8 - 10 years of experience, including 2+ years of architecture ownership, who has designed and operated production-grade AWS SaaS platforms. Strong hands-on expertise in AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, VPC/networking, IAM/security, RDS, ALB/Route53/WAF, HA/DR and observability.

Proven experience designing scalable multi-tenant microservices architectures, optimizing AWS infrastructure cost and performance, leading production incident RCA, defining NFRs/SLA/SLO, and creating HLD/LLD/architecture documentation. Should be capable of evaluating AWS/Azure/GCP services, mentoring engineers and presenting architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

Experience : 6+ Years.

Qualification :

B.E./B.Tech./M.Tech in Electronics & Communication, Electronics, Electronics & Telecommunication, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Infrastructure Architecture :

- Design end-to-end cloud architecture for the SaaS platform (compute, networking, storage, DB, multi-tenancy model).

2. Automation & IaC :

- Standardize environments through infra-as-code standards using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible to eliminate manual configuration.

3. CI/CD support :

- Support DevOps team to Optimize deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions for zero-downtime releases.

4. Cost & Performance Optimization :

- Audit AWS usage to optimize spend and right-size resources without sacrificing performance.

5. Incident Response & Security :

- Lead root-cause analysis (RCA) for AWS Infrastructure related incidents.

- Design security architecture IAM, network segmentation, encryption, compliance - SOC2/ISO27001/GDPR as applicable.

6. Mentorship :

- Guide junior engineers and document best practices.

Additional responsibilities :

- Evaluate and select cloud services/vendors for new Applications (AWS/Azure/GCP, managed vs self-hosted).

- Own non-functional requirements: scalability, high availability, DR/BCP, latency, cost optimization.

- Create capacity planning and cost-modeling for infra spend.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- Experience : 6+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure roles with 2+ years in Architecture/Solution designer role.

- DevOps working knowledge will be an added advantage.

- AWS Expertise : Deep knowledge of EC2, EKS/ECS (Containers), RDS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, ALB, WAF, DR setup, IAM etc., working knowledge of GCP/Azure.

- Containerization : Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration.

- Monitoring : Hands-on experience with observability tools like Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, etc.

- Certifications : AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional is preferred choice. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate can also be considered based on expertise.

- Deployment : Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, multi-tenant SaaS architecture. Ability to produce architecture diagrams, technical design docs, and present to stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud Architect, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, IAC Terraform, CI/CD, CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, Prometheus