Job Title: DevOps Cloud Architect – Operations
Location: India (Hybrid / Remote)
Experience: 12+ Years (7+ Years in Cloud & DevOps)
Employment Type: Full-time
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced DevOps Cloud Architect – Operations to design, implement, and govern scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platforms. The role will focus on operational excellence, automation, SRE practices, and cloud cost optimization across multi-cloud environments (AWS).
The candidate will lead cloud operations architecture, DevOps maturity, reliability engineering, and CI/CD transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
1. Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native architectures.
- Define reference architectures for AWS/Azure/GCP environments.
- Lead cloud migration, modernization, and re-platforming initiatives.
- Establish multi-region high-availability and disaster recovery frameworks.
2. DevOps & CI/CD Automation
- Architect enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines (GitOps, trunk-based development).
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep).
- Enable containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Drive DevSecOps adoption with security shift-left practices.
3. Operations & SRE Leadership
- Define SRE standards including:
- SLIs, SLOs, SLAs
- Error budgets
- Incident management frameworks
- Implement monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).
- Improve DORA metrics (Lead Time, MTTR, Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate).
- Conduct RCA, chaos engineering, and resilience testing.
4. Cloud Governance & Security
- Implement cloud governance models.
- Ensure compliance (ISO, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, etc. where applicable).
- Design IAM frameworks and Zero Trust architecture.
- Optimize cloud cost using FinOps best practices.
5. Automation & Performance Engineering
- Automate provisioning, scaling, and patch management.
- Design self-healing infrastructure and auto-remediation workflows.
- Improve performance tuning for high-scale applications.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in at least one major cloud platform:
- Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
- Terraform / CloudFormation
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
- Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Observability stack (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
- Strong Linux & networking fundamentals
- Experience in container security and runtime protection
Methodologies
- DevOps & Agile transformation
- Cloud cost optimization (FinOps)
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Operational excellence mindset
- Strong problem-solving & incident leadership
- Stakeholder communication (C-level to engineering)
- Cost-conscious architecture design
KPIs / Success Metrics
- Improved deployment frequency & reduced MTTR
- 99.9%+ uptime SLA adherence
- Reduction in cloud costs (10–25%)
- Automation coverage >80%
- Reduced change failure rate
