Cloud Platform Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to policy framework, design, and engineering of cloud platform architecture which enables efficient DevOps & infrastructure operations; efficient organization, networking, and security for workloads running across multiple accounts, cloud providers, and on-premises environments. This role is required to pursue a strong collaborative approach of working across security, infrastructure, networking, compliance/risk, and delivery stakeholders and organizations.
• This role would define the technology & architecture for DevSecOps engineering lifecycle including the observability of client journeys and infrastructure/application components across the stack.
• The role shall provide directions and decision-making for DevSecOps toolchains, the engineering processes/methods, common/custom code libraries related to DevSec & infrastructure operations, common logging, metrics, tracing standards, observability platforms, etc.
• As a representative of the architecture council, this role shall provide for the definition of the cloud architectural strategy and the technology directions towards the choice of various cloud services appropriate for various workload patterns.
• This role shall enable a decision-making process which is collaborative and participative; through suitable engagement with the DevSecOps practitioner forum and community.
• This role shall represent significant strategy progressions & decisions into the architecture council and obtain the required buy-ins.
• Though cloud is a significant focus area, but this role shall have corresponding responsibilities in the space of DevSecOps as mentioned above for on-prem workloads as well.

Essential Requirements:

• Should have experience of articulating/contributing to the multi-cloud/hybrid strategy for an enterprise from technical architecture, engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure operations point of view.
• Should have experience of articulating directions/recommendations for workload placement strategies towards cloud services.
• Should have experience of providing guidelines to delivery and infrastructure teams towards cloud organizational constructs like cloud organizations, policy management, accounts, VPC, cross-cloud/account/on-prem connectivities/gateways, security/IAM, etc.
• Experience of couple of cloud providers preferably AWS and GCP shall be required.
• Candidate should have experience and expertise on DevSecOps and infrastructure operations engineering practices, methods, and toolchains.
• Candidate should have expertise and experience for determining/architecting the stacks that provide for robust alerting, logging, monitoring, observability practices and tools/platforms for an enterprise.
• Should have hands-on experience towards diverse toolchains in this space like source code management, test case/issue/quality management, requirements management, build/deployment, source code quality/coverage management, SAST/DAST tools, ELK/Splunk, etc. And should have played a decision-making role in selection and design of such integrated toolchains.
• Candidate should have experience of architecting the distributed/microservices-based systems or having provided for the platform/engineering components towards such architectures.
• It will be plus if a candidate has experience of integration architecture enablers and technologies like API Gateways, Service Meshes, Service Bus, Messaging platforms, SSO platforms, etc.
• A candidate with overall 17-20 years of experience in IT industry with track record of engineering/architecting for large-scale systems and at least 4-5 years of decision-making experience in DevSecOps and cloud platform architecture/engineering space is likely to be a suitable fit.