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Practice Overview
Skill / Operating Group
Technology Consulting — Cloud Infrastructure & Ecosystem Advisory
Level
Consultant
Location
Gurugram / Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune / Kolkata
Travel
Expected travel could be anywhere between 0–100%
Why Technology Consulting
The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it is more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client's toughest business problems. Specialise in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organisations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:
Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.
Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Engineering.
Transforming Businesses: Developing customised, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Overview
Support hybrid and multi-cloud architecture workstreams within advisory and transformation engagements — contributing to architecture assessments, reference architecture documentation, and design analysis under the guidance of senior architects. Develop current-state assessments of client hybrid environments covering private cloud platforms (VMware Cloud Foundation, Nutanix), colocation infrastructure, hyperscaler footprints (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hybrid connectivity configurations (SD-WAN, MPLS, dedicated interconnects).
Contribute to hybrid security architecture workstreams — researching Zero Trust patterns for hybrid environments, documenting IAM and identity federation configurations, mapping network segmentation designs across on-premises and cloud, and supporting the development of hybrid security architecture recommendations.
Support multi-cloud FinOps analysis and reporting — collecting and analysing cost data across on-premises infrastructure lifecycle and cloud consumption, identifying optimisation opportunities, and contributing to financial governance framework documentation.
Support IaC and platform engineering workstreams — documenting infrastructure patterns across Terraform, Ansible, and platform-specific tools, researching hybrid Kubernetes and GitOps standards, and contributing to governance framework documentation. Support the development of unified observability architecture recommendations using Datadog, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
Support proposal and solutioning efforts by contributing architecture assessments, design patterns, and reference architectures. Contribute to practice asset development and knowledge management under senior guidance.
Qualifications
Educational Background
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline. A Master's degree (MBA, MSc in Cloud Computing, or equivalent) is preferred.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate OR Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) OR Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (at least one)
Other Certifications — Good-to-have
- VMware Cloud Foundation Architect
- Nutanix Certified Professional – Multicloud
6–9 years of relevant experience in consulting, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology roles. At least 2 years contributing to hybrid or multi-cloud architecture workstreams in an advisory or delivery context, with growing exposure to client-facing architecture assessment and design work.
Working experience with hybrid cloud technologies — familiarity with at least one private cloud platform (VMware vSphere/vSAN, Nutanix AHV), one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and hybrid connectivity concepts (SD-WAN, MPLS, dedicated interconnects) — in either a delivery, engineering, or advisory support capacity.
Foundational experience in hybrid security architecture — familiarity with Zero Trust concepts, IAM and identity federation patterns, network segmentation across on-premises and cloud, and encryption frameworks; able to research and document security patterns under senior guidance.
Working knowledge of multi-cloud FinOps concepts — aware of infrastructure lifecycle costing and cloud consumption models; able to collect cost data across hybrid environments and contribute to financial governance documentation under direction.
Some exposure to hybrid cloud architecture workstreams spanning adjacent areas — awareness of hybrid Kubernetes patterns, GitOps, and how on-premises and cloud infrastructure supports AI workloads and resiliency requirements; able to contribute analysis and documentation under senior guidance.
Experience supporting proposal and solutioning efforts through architecture assessments, design pattern documentation, and reference architecture contributions.
Key Competencies & Skills
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Clear communication and analytical thinking — able to present cloud architecture assessments and design recommendations to technical and management-level stakeholders.
Cloud architecture strategy and roadmap development — able to assess current-state cloud estates, identify architecture gaps, define target-state designs, and build pragmatic transformation roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
Structured problem-solving under ambiguity — able to frame cloud architecture challenges, evaluate trade-offs across cost, performance, security, and resilience dimensions, and produce actionable recommendations.
Financial and commercial acumen — able to build cloud business cases, evaluate hyperscaler commercial models, quantify FinOps value levers, and support investment decisions across cloud platform choices.
Contribution to solutioning — able to support proposal development and asset creation under senior guidance.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture — foundational to working knowledge of at least one private cloud platform (VMware vSphere/vSAN or Nutanix AHV) and at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Familiar with hybrid connectivity concepts (SD-WAN, MPLS, dedicated interconnects); able to develop current-state assessments of hybrid environments and contribute to reference architecture documentation under senior guidance.
Cloud security architecture — foundational knowledge of Zero Trust concepts for hybrid environments, IAM and identity federation patterns, network segmentation designs, and encryption basics; able to research and document security patterns under senior guidance.
Cloud FinOps — basic awareness of infrastructure lifecycle costing and cloud consumption models; able to collect cost data across hybrid environments and contribute to financial governance documentation under direction.
Infrastructure as code and platform engineering — awareness of Terraform and Ansible; able to research IaC patterns across hybrid environments and contribute to governance framework documentation under senior guidance.
Observability architecture — awareness of Datadog, Dynatrace, or Splunk as unified observability platforms; able to support the development of hybrid observability architecture recommendations.
Containers and cloud-native patterns — foundational awareness of Kubernetes and OpenShift concepts in hybrid contexts; able to contribute to architecture assessments covering hybrid container workloads.
AI and agentic AI infrastructure — awareness of hybrid AI infrastructure concepts — on-premises GPU environments and hyperscaler AI services; able to contribute to assessments of hybrid AI workload placement under senior guidance.
Ecosystem advisory — general awareness of VMware/Broadcom, Nutanix, Dell, HPE, and hyperscaler partner ecosystems; able to support research and vendor landscape analysis under direction.
Additional Information
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