AWS Cloud Data Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end cloud solution design and delivery for application modernization and cloud-native projects. You will guide DevOps teams, review designs, and ensure security, scalability, and cost optimization across environments.

The role requires 8–12 years of IT experience with hands-on AWS services and IaC tools, plus strong stakeholder communication and leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of IT experience with cloud architecture and delivery.
• Hands-on AWS with EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS.
• Experience in IaC and automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AWS technical solution design for modernization and cloud-native initiatives.
• Translate requirements into detailed designs, plans, estimates and work packages.
• Lead DevOps engineers, conduct design/code reviews and ensure engineering quality.
• Govern cloud practices across security, networking, observability, scalability and cost.
• Build reusable accelerators, automation scripts and IaC modules.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners and client stakeholders for delivery.
• Support incident analysis, RCA, performance tuning and knowledge sharing.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Application development

DevOps

Cloud security

Cost optimization

Leadership / technical design

Microservices

REST APIs

Observability

Release/deployment practices

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Requirements*

• 8 to 12 years of IT experience, including strong hands‑on experience in AWS cloud architecture, application development, DevOps, and production‑grade cloud delivery.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, and Route 53.
• Experience in designing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost‑optimized cloud solutions using AWS Well‑Architected principles.
• Hands‑on experience with IaC and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins/Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of microservices, REST APIs, event‑driven architecture, databases, observability, cloud security, and release/deployment practices.
• Ability to lead technical design discussions, guide engineering teams, review deliverables, manage technical risks, and communicate clearly with client and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities*

• Own end‑to‑end AWS technical solution design for application modernization, migration, integration, and cloud‑native development initiatives.
• Translate business and architecture requirements into detailed technical designs, implementation plans, estimates, and delivery work packages.
• Lead developers and DevOps engineers, conduct design/code reviews, resolve technical blockers, and ensure engineering quality across the team.
• Implement and govern cloud best practices across security, networking, observability, scalability, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Build and maintain reusable accelerators, automation scripts, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code modules.
• Collaborate with architects, Scrum Masters, product owners, security teams, operations teams, and client stakeholders for successful delivery.
• Support incident analysis, RCA, performance tuning, technical documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement activities.