Associate Architect

Presidio; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Presidio in Chennai seeks a Cloud Operations Leader to manage cloud ecosystems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role includes overseeing team development, implementing automation frameworks, and ensuring cloud cost governance. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience, strong leadership skills, and expertise in cloud technologies. They will focus on security, compliance, and resource optimization, driving continuous innovation within cloud operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud infrastructure, with 3 years in a leadership role.
• Strong expertise with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience managing large multi-tenant environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage the cloud ecosystem across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Lead a team of cloud engineers in roadmap creation.
• Implement automation for sandbox provisioning and access workflows.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

DevOps

Automation (Terraform, Ansible)

Excellent communication skills

Cloud cost governance

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future

At Presidio, we’re at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting‑edge digital solutions and next‑generation AI. We empower businesses—and their customers—to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role

Strategic Ownership & Leadership

• Own and manage the cloud ecosystem across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring they operate with high efficiency, strong governance, and predictable costs.
• Lead a small team of cloud engineers, guiding and coaching them in roadmap creation, prioritization, execution, and skills development.
• Act as a strategic advisor to engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders on sandbox governance, usage patterns, and optimization strategies.
• Establish and enforce policies for onboarding, offboarding, resource lifecycle, and access management for users.

Operational Excellence & Automation

• Design and implement automation for sandbox provisioning, quota management, access approval workflows, scheduling, and spin‑up/ spin‑down processes.
• Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Cloud‑native tools) for repeatable lab operations.
• Create self‑service capabilities and guardrails for sandbox users to reduce manual effort and improve governance.
• Collaborate on lab, demo, and proof of concept engagements with internal and external stakeholders.

FinOps, Cost Governance & Optimization

• Implement a FinOps‑aligned operating model for all accounts including tagging standards, cost allocation, budget enforcement, and showback/chargeback across all clouds.
• Continuously analyze cloud spend trends, forecast usage, and proactively identify opportunities for rightsizing, decommissioning, and efficiency improvements.
• Build automation for policy‑based cleanup of unused/ idle resources.

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Define and implement security guardrails, baseline configurations, identity/access rules, and monitoring policies for sandbox environments.
• Ensure compliance with organizational governance controls and enforce boundaries between sandbox and production environments.
• Implement monitoring dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics to ensure visibility and control.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Proactively introduce new approaches, tools, and technologies to make lab and demo operations more efficient, secure, and cost‑effective.
• Conduct periodic reviews of account usage patterns to identify opportunities for consolidation, automation, or architectural improvements.
• Partner with cloud providers, vendors, and internal teams to evaluate new services and establish best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud operations roles, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or team‑lead position.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and working knowledge of the other two.
• Demonstrated experience in managing large or multi‑tenant cloud environments, including governance, account/projects/subscription management.
• Strong automation experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Understanding of Cloud Networking Concepts, such as AWS VPCs, Transit Gateways, Azure VNets, Public DNS with AWS Route 53 and VPN tunnel creation from the hyperscaler side.
• Familiarity with Cloud Compute and Storage such as EC2 Instances, Azure Virtual Machines, Google Compute Engine, AWS S3/EBS/EFS and/or Azure Disk Storage.
• Proven expertise in FinOps, cloud cost governance, and optimization frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, guardrails, monitoring, and policy management.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certifications: AWS Solutions Architect / Azure Architect Expert / GCP Professional Cloud Architect.
• Prior experience in managing demo or lab environments, platform engineering, or multi‑cloud landing zones.
• Experience with cost analytics tools (CloudHealth, Flexera, Cloud Custodian, Kubecost, native cost tools).
• Knowledge of container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD workflows.
• Exposure to Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE) or platform engineering teams.

Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

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