Cloud Architect

Accenture in India; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 2,600,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in India seeks a Cloud Architect - Associate Manager (ACS SONG) to design and deliver secure, reliable cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions. You will lead technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and QA from concept through implementation.

Responsibilities include leading workshops, producing production-ready designs for multi-environment setups, cost estimation, and guiding DevOps teams to ensure quality delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8-12 years of experience in cloud architecture.
• Graduation is required.
• Cloud technologies focus with hybrid/infrastructure experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead client and supplier workshops to understand environments, requirements and interfaces.
• Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Create proofs of concept to validate designs and reduce risk.
• Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates including cloud pricing.
• Break designs into work packages with prerequisites, dependencies and delivery estimates.
• Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet requirements.
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud and on-prem environments.
• Lead technicians, developers, operations, and DevOps teams and ensure quality gates.

Skills

Cloud Technologies

Web Applications

Leadership

Solution design

Education

Graduation

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Job Title - Cloud Architect - Associate Manager - ACS SONG

Management Level: Level 8- Associate Manager

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Cloud Technologies

Good to have skills: Web Applications

Experience: 8-12 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation

Job Summary

Work with client and internal teams to design and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions. Lead technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and quality assurance from concept through implementation.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Lead client and supplier workshops to understand the current environment, requirements, constraints, dependencies, and integration interfaces.
• Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Create proofs of concept where needed to validate designs, reduce technical risk, and improve estimate accuracy.
• Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates, including cloud pricing calculations and resource or skill requirements.
• Break solution designs into clear work packages with prerequisites, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
• Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet security and compliance requirements.
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud, on-premises monolithic, and microservices-based environments.
• Lead technicians, developers, operations, and DevOps teams; delegate tasks, resolve technical issues, and act as the quality gate for deliverables.
• Track infrastructure risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and provide updates to the project RAID log.
• Support internal initiatives and represent the company at relevant industry events.