Architect / Principal Cloud Engineer (EL5 – Offshore)

Secure Minds; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Secure Minds in Hyderabad, India is seeking an Architect / Principal Cloud Engineer (EL5) to own platform planning, architecture and design for a large-scale AWS environment, covering EKS, MSK, OpenSearch, RDS, S3 and EMR. You will use Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes and Docker as core delivery tools while shaping scalable, highly available platforms.

The role leads globally distributed engineering teams, prioritises technical delivery, mentors colleagues and drives cloud security, performance and

Qualifications

• Must-have AWS expertise including EKS, MSK, OpenSearch, RDS, S3 and EMR.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience in platform planning, architecture and design at scale.
• Strong focus on scalability, high availability, resilience and stability.

Responsibilities

• Own platform planning, architecture and design for a large-scale AWS environment.
• Lead globally distributed engineering teams, prioritise delivery and mentor staff.
• Drive cloud security, performance, cost optimisation (FinOps) and incident management.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud security

FinOps

Leadership

Performance tuning

Incident management

Strategic planning

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenSearch

EKS

Job description

We're hiring an Architect / Principal Cloud Engineer (EL5) to own platform planning, architecture and design for a large-scale AWS environment - covering EKS, MSK (Apache Kafka), OpenSearch, RDS, S3 and EMR, with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes and Docker as the core delivery toolset.

The role owns scalability, high availability, resilience and platform stability, cloud security, performance and cost optimisation (FinOps), and incident management/production escalations - while leading globally distributed engineering teams, prioritising and delegating technical delivery, and mentoring team members.

Contract JC: On request

Please note: we can only consider candidates who can join within 20 days.

Must-have skills

• AWS expertise (EKS, MSK/Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, RDS, S3, EMR); Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker; platform planning, architecture and design; scalability, high availability, resilience, platform stability; cloud security, performance and cost optimization/FinOps; incident management, production escalations, troubleshooting; leading globally distributed engineering teams; task prioritization, delegation, technical delivery leadership; mentoring team members, building team capability, strong communication.