Cloud Solution Architect

India has a large Cloud market estimated at $22Bn for year 2024 and growing at 17% CAGR with Cloud spends becoming an increasingly larger % of our customer’s IT spends. Customers have seen huge gains both on Performance and well as Cost-optimization by actively managing their Cloud strategy and adopting a Multi and Hybrid cloud approach. Airtel Cloud was launched to address the gap in the current market. Airtel’s core strengths on Network & Security are tightly integrated a part of our cloud offering. We have also leveraged Airtel’s brand trust, enterprise relationships, and partner ecosystem to strengthen the positioning and adoption of Airtel Cloud. Airtel cloud is a Telco-grade Cloud -“Built in India, for India”. It is a fully sovereign & regulated offering, built with best technology integrations promising maximized performance. It is built to address India’s regulatory, performance, and cost-efficiency needs. Tailored to handle 140 crore transactions per minute for Airtel’s own use in India, this cloud platform is now being extended to meet the ever-evolving needs of businesses in India. Hosted on next-gen sustainable data centers, with Gen-AI based provisioning, and managed by 300 certified cloud experts, the highly secure and reliable. Airtel cloud will offer the complete stack to our customers- IaaS, PaaS offerings, Observability, a Cloud management platform for customers to manage their Hybrid & multi-cloud environments; and Cloud security posture management across their clouds. This will be complemented with Advisory, Cloud analyzer, Data migration & Professional services from Airtel. With this product launch, we intent to become a part of our customer’s cloud journey and become a one stop shop for our customers across Connectivity, Network, Security, CPaaS, IOT & Cloud. We are looking for a high performing team of motivated individuals who will help us forge our growth story.Key Responsibilities -Understand client business goals, current and future cloud architecture, and migration paths for Airtel cloud solutionsTranslate business requirements into technical solutions using enterprise architecture principlesLead and participate in RFP/bid processes, preparing technical solutions, costing, and proposalsPresent solutions to C-level executives and technical teams; deliver POCs and integration architecturesProvide detailed architecture/design (HLD), requirement gathering, and creation of bill of materials/pricingDemonstrate expertise in cloud architecture (multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, DevOps, migration, security, elasticity, etc.)Collaborate with business, cloud architecture, product, engineering, DevOps, and security teams to deliver robust customer solutionsMentor teammates on cloud standards, frameworks, and drive cloud adoptionDevelop cloud reference architectures and management systemsSkills and CompetenciesTechnical CompetenciesProven experience designing/delivering projects with hyperscalers (Azure, OCI, GCP) and private cloud (VMware, Redhat, Oracle PCA).Led multiple end-to-end cloud transformation and consulting engagements, including maturity assessments and roadmap definition.Expertise in cloud-native services (Compute, Networking, Storage, DBaaS, CDN, Alerting, etc.) and Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE).Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud automation, and scripts (Python, JavaScript, Ansible).Cloud architect certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) preferred; Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fieldBehavioural CompetenciesExecutive Presence, Ability to influence decision makers, Excellent communication skills