Position: Cloud Architect (Senior / Principal) — Platform & Infrastructure
Experience: 12+ years
Location: Pune (Hybrid)
Industry: High-growth SaaS / Product Engineering — US Behavioral Health
Reports to: Director of Platform Engineering
Role :
This is a senior architect role anchored to the Platform & Infrastructure team with horizontal influence across every product team. You will own the cloud architecture, reliability, security posture, and cost-to serve of our SaaS platform on AWS.
What You'll Do:
- Own end-to-end cloud architecture on AWS
- Stay deeply hands-on (40–60% in code / IaC
- Set cloud and infra standards across teams
- Own scalability, reliability, and cost
- Build the internal developer platform
- Own the security architecture
- Drive HIPAA-ready posture
- Lead architecture reviews and design partnerships
- Own the hardest production infra problems
- Be the technical voice with customers and partners
- Drive build vs. buy vs. partner decisions
- Multiply senior infra and SRE talent
- Partner with Directors and EMs
What We're Looking For:
- 12+ years in cloud / infrastructure / platform engineering — with multiple stints at Senior / Staff / Principal level in product or SaaS companies — at least one of which involved horizontal influence across multiple teams.
- Deep, current AWS expertise — EKS / ECS / Fargate / Lambda, ALB / API Gateway / CloudFront, SQS / SNS / EventBridge / Kinesis / MSK, S3 / EBS / EFS / RDS / Aurora, networking
- Proven cloud architecture ownership for multi-tenant SaaS — serving enterprise customers — VPC and account topology, identity, secrets, tenant isolation, blast-radius design.
- Strong production Kubernetes experience — EKS at scale, IRSA / workload identity, service mesh, autoscaling (Karpenter / Cluster Autoscaler), cost optimization, security posture.
- IaC depth at scale — Terraform or AWS CDK / CloudFormation — modules, state management, drift control, policy-as-code (Service Control Policies / AWS Config / OPA).
- Reliability engineering — SLI / SLO design, error budgets, capacity planning, postmortems, incident command.
- Observability — metrics, logs, traces. Has designed monitoring strategies for production systems with real cardinality and cost trade-offs.
- Strong security architecture — identity, network, secrets, supply chain, vulnerability management, HIPAA-ready controls.
- FinOps — cloud cost-to-serve modeling, optimization, chargeback / showback.
- Excellent written Comm. — RFCs, ADRs, runbooks, security questionnaires, and crisp executive narratives. Can hold a room of senior engineers and a room of execs in the same week.
- Pragmatic judgment — bias toward the simplest infra that scales, willingness to delete cost, instinct for when to centralize vs. let teams self-serve.
- Track record of force-multiplication — IaC modules others adopted, runbooks others reused, talks / writing / OSS that elevated team practice.
- Based in Pune — open to hybrid work (2–3 days/week onsite).
Nice to Have
* HIPAA/PHI cloud architecture experience preferred.
* Exposure to multi-cloud environments, including Azure.
* Experience in platform engineering or developer platforms.
* Background in cloud and container modernization.
* Open-source, technical writing patents
Pay: ₹2,500,000.00 - ₹2,700,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
