Associate Architect

Presidio; Chennai District; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Presidio seeks an experienced cloud leader to own the cloud ecosystem across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring governance, cost control, and scalable operations. Lead a small engineering team, drive roadmaps, and mentor staff in automation, security, and best practices.

You will collaborate with engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to optimize sandbox environments, enforce access controls, and deliver cost-efficient solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud infra, DevOps, or cloud ops, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong hands-on with at least one major cloud provider and working knowledge of the others.
• Experience managing large multi-tenant cloud environments with governance.
• Strong automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, or similar.
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPCs, VNets, DNS, VPNs).
• Familiarity with cloud compute and storage (EC2, Azure VM, GCE, S3/EBS/EFS).
• Proven FinOps, cloud cost governance, and optimization.
• Strong cloud security, IAM, guardrails, monitoring, and policy management.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the cloud ecosystem across AWS, Azure, and GCP with governance and cost control.
• Lead a small team of cloud engineers, guiding roadmap creation, prioritization, and execution.
• Advise stakeholders on sandbox governance, usage patterns, and optimization strategies.
• Establish onboarding, offboarding and access management policies for users.
• Design automation for sandbox provisioning, quota management, and spin-up/spin-down processes.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks for lab operations (Terraform, Ansible, Python).
• Create self-service capabilities and guardrails for sandbox users.
• Collaborate on lab, demo, and POC engagements with internal and external stakeholders.
• Implement a FinOps-aligned operating model with tagging and cost allocation across clouds.
• Analyze cloud spend trends and identify opportunities for rightsizing and efficiency.
• Build automation for policy-based cleanup of unused resources.
• Define security guardrails, baseline configurations, identity rules, and monitoring policies.
• Ensure compliance and enforce boundaries between sandbox and production environments.
• Monitor dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics for visibility.
• Proactively introduce new tools and approaches to improve efficiency and security.
• Review usage patterns for consolidation or architectural improvements.
• Partner with providers and teams to evaluate new services.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Multi-cloud governance

Terraform

Python

Automation scripting

Cloud networking

FinOps

Security & IAM

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

PowerShell

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the FutureAtPresidio, we’re at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries throughcutting-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

• Ownand 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 forusers.

Operational Excellence & Automation

• Design and implement automation for sandbox provisioning, quota management, access approvalworkflows, scheduling, and spin-up/spin-down processes.
• Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Cloud-native tools) for repeatable lab operations.[MS1]
• 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.

Your future at Presidio
JoiningPresidiomeans stepping into aculture of trailblazers—thinkers, builders, and collaborators—who push the boundaries of what’s possible. With our expertise inAI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here,your impact is real.Whether you're harnessing the power ofGenerative AI, architecting resilientdigital ecosystems, or drivingdata-driven transformation, you’ll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let’s redefine what’s next—together.

About Presidio

At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio’s expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information, visit www.presidio.com.

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.