Cloud Architect

Job Title: Cloud Architect

Designation: Associate Consultant / Manager / Project Manager

Total Years of exp: 8+ yrs (multi-cloud architecture ownership)

Role purpose:

Senior technical authority for cloud and platform. Sets the architecture standard and is the deepest escalation point in the tower.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the cloud architecture standard: landing zone, network design, identity, resilience and cost posture.
• Act as the final technical escalation for cloud and platform incidents.
• Review and approve significant infrastructure change and new workload onboarding.
• Direct the cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps and FinOps engineers, and the SRE/AIOps Lead, and set their technical priorities.
• Advise the client on modernisation, migration and platform roadmap.
• Participate in the on-call rotation as senior escalation.

Technical skills:

• Cloud architecture & advisory: landing zone design, migration strategy, HA/DR, security & cost architecture, technical governance, stakeholder advisory.

Tools and technology:

• AWS / Azure / GCP, Terraform, IaC, Well-Architected Framework
• Certification (preferred, not mandatory)
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional; Azure Solutions Architect Expert