We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect with strong expertise in cloud architecture, data center infrastructure, and enterprise infrastructure design. The ideal candidate should have 8+ years of experience, including hands-on experience in Cloud Architecture, Data Center Infrastructure, and Infrastructure Architecture.
The candidate will be responsible for designing scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective cloud and infrastructure solutions while working closely with engineering, security, operations, and application teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise-grade cloud architecture across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Define cloud adoption, migration, modernization, and transformation strategies.
- Design highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions.
- Assess existing data center infrastructure and develop cloud/hybrid transformation roadmaps.
- Architect compute, storage, networking, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, and security solutions.
- Develop Infrastructure Architecture and High-Level/Low-Level Design (HLD/LLD) documents.
- Evaluate infrastructure requirements and recommend appropriate technology solutions.
- Lead cloud migration and data center modernization initiatives.
- Work with network, security, DevOps, application, and infrastructure teams to ensure architectural alignment.
- Establish standards, best practices, governance, security controls, and architecture principles.
- Identify opportunities for infrastructure optimization, automation, performance improvement, and cost reduction.
- Participate in architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering and operations teams.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and cloud architecture issues and provide long-term solutions.
Required Skills
- Strong experience in AWS / Azure / GCP cloud architecture.
- Cloud networking: VPC/VNet, VPN, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, load balancing, DNS, firewalls.
- Compute, storage, databases, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies.
- IAM, encryption, security architecture, and cloud governance.
- High availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity.
- Cloud migration and hybrid-cloud architecture.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / CloudFormation / ARM/Bicep.
Data Center Infrastructure
- Strong understanding of enterprise data center architecture.
- Servers, storage, networking, virtualization, backup, and disaster recovery.
- VMware/Hyper-V and virtualization technologies.
- SAN/NAS, enterprise storage, and data protection technologies.
- Data center networking, routing, switching, firewalls, and load balancers.
- Experience with data center migration/consolidation projects.
- Understanding of capacity planning, availability, performance, and infrastructure resilience.
- Experience creating HLD, LLD, architecture diagrams, and technical solution documents.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and technology standards.
- Experience working with cross-functional infrastructure and application teams.
- Strong understanding of security, compliance, monitoring, logging, and operational requirements.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- TOGAF
- VMware certificationsCCNP/CCIE or equivalent networking certification