Cloud Architect

Tata Elxsi; Chennai District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Elxsi is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead multi-cloud migration programs (GCP to AWS) and define target-state architectures across AWS and GCP. You will design landing zones, governance, security, networking, and observability, while guiding customers through workshops and architecture reviews.

You will implement infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-automation patterns, mentoring teams and driving best practices for scalable, secure, and resilient

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud-architecture across AWS and/or GCP with multi-cloud exposure.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and/or Google Professional Cloud Architect preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the GCP-to-AWS migration RFP by contributing to technical strategy and proposal inputs.
• Lead cloud assessments, discovery, and migration readiness analysis; define target-state architecture.
• Define migration strategy, landing zone design, governance, security, networking, monitoring, and operational best practices across AWS and GCP.
• Design scalable, secure AWS target architectures for workloads migrating from GCP.
• Implement Terraform and CI/CD automation.
• Conduct workshops, architecture reviews, and stakeholder discussions to finalize migration scope and solution design.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring.

Skills

AWS core services

GCP expertise

Cloud migration

Kubernetes & Docker

Terraform & CI/CD

Cloud security & governance

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Support the upcoming GCP-to-AWS migration RFP by contributing to technical strategy, solution approach, effort estimation, and proposal inputs.
• Lead cloud assessments, application and workload discovery, migration readiness analysis, and target-state architecture definition.
• Define migration strategy, cloud landing zone design, governance, security, networking, monitoring, and operational best practices across AWS and GCP.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available AWS target architectures for workloads migrating from GCP.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation.
• Conduct customer workshops, architecture reviews, technical deep dives, and stakeholder discussions to finalize migration scope and solution design.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architecture guidance.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, Direct Connect, and AWS security services.
• Hands-on experience with GCP services such such as GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, IAM, and VPC networking.
• Proven experience in cloud-to-cloud migration, especially assessment, dependency mapping, re-hosting, re-platforming, modernization, and cutover planning.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization across AWS and GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud automation.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer-facing experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 12+ years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on cloud architecture experience across AWS and/or GCP, with strong preference for multi-cloud migration exposure.
• Experience in enterprise cloud migration, modernization, cloud assessment, and solutioning engagements.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and/or Google Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred.

Good to Have

• Experience in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, or Digital Health projects.
• Experience in multi-cloud architecture, GCP-to-AWS migration programs, landing zone implementation, and enterprise-scale cloud governance.
• Knowledge of HL7, FHIR, DICOM, and healthcare compliance standards such as HIPAA.