Senior Cloud & Devops Architect

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 organizations 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 a 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.