Cloud Architect
First seen by Alion on Sep 3, 2026.
Role Summary:
Infra Cloud Architect to lead the end-to-end solution architecture for the AIOps Automation Programme. The role will define the target-state architecture, integration patterns, security controls, and technical design across all five AI use cases, including intelligent routing, event correlation, self-heal automation, agentic RCA, and automated data-quality rule generation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the target-state cloud architecture and reference design for the AIOps platform across UC1 to UC4.
- Design the agentic RCA architecture covering logs, metrics, traces, vector matching, knowledge base integration, and confidence-based remediation.
- Architect self-heal automation workflows with retry, rollback, transactional execution, and immutable audit logging.
- Establish security, compliance, identity, and least-privilege access controls.
- Define non-functional requirements including scalability, availability, performance, cost, and deployment topology.
- Partner with data and infrastructure teams on event correlation, suppression logic, and actionability thresholds.
- Perform architecture reviews, stage-gate approvals, and technical design sign-offs.
- Guide platform, data, infrastructure, and DevOps engineers on architecture standards and design decisions.
- Maintain architecture decision records and support handover of design assets and run-books during hyper-care.
Required Skills:
- Strong experience in cloud and solution architecture for integration, event-driven platforms.
- Deep Azure expertise across compute, integration, identity, observability, ICM, DevOps and automation patterns.
- Knowledge of ITSM or incident-management platforms such as ICM.
- Strong understanding of AIOps, event correlation, self-healing operations, and automation design.
- Good understanding of Azure security, identity and compliance.
- Ability to lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams and communicate complex architecture to technical and executive stakeholders.
Preferred Skills:
- Prior experience delivering enterprise-scale AIOps, automation, or self-healing operations programmes.
- Experience designing platforms that support measurable MTTR and manual-effort reduction outcomes.
- Experience in Platform operations and steady state architype.
Skills
Cloud Computing, Azure, AIOps, IT Automation, ITSM, IT Security Strategy, IT Compliance, Cloud Architect