DevOps & SRE Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Chennai is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE solution architect to own end-to-end technical responses for complex multi-tower managed services and cloud transformations.

You will design response strategies for RFPs, author solution narratives, lead defence sessions, and collaborate with Sales, Legal, Delivery, and Transition teams to build winning proposals aligned to client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical solutioning for DevOps and SRE towers within multi-tower managed services, cloud transformation, and application modernisation RFPs
• Interpret client requirements, evaluation criteria, and scoring rubrics to design response strategies that maximise scoring and win-themes
• Author high-quality solution narratives, method statements, case studies, and executive summaries aligned to bid win-themes
• Lead solution defence sessions, clarification calls, orals, and BAFO (Best and Final Offer) discussions with client evaluators
• Contribute to commercial modelling such as effort estimation, resource pyramids, tooling costs, transition & transformation cost-cases, and year-on-year productivity commitments
• Architect end-to-end DevOps platforms covering source control, CI/CD, artefact management, IaC, secrets management, container orchestration, and release orchestration (e.g., GitHub/GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Harness, Spinnaker).
• Design SRE operating models grounded in SLI/SLO/SLA frameworks, error budgets, toil reduction, chaos engineering, and blameless post-mortems.
• Define observability and AIOps architectures using market leading tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic, and OpenTelemetry.
• Design for multi-cloud and hybrid environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud.
• Build automation and AI-led operations narratives
• Design transition and transformation roadmaps including discovery, current-state assessment, target operating model, and roadmap phasing
• Partner with Sales, Bid Management, Commercial, Legal, Delivery, and Transition teams to build integrated proposals.
• Collaborate with hyperscaler and OEM partners to leverage funding, co-sell, and joint value propositions.

Job description

• Own the end-to-end technical solutioning for DevOps and SRE towers within multi-tower managed services, cloud transformation, and application modernisation RFPs
• Interpret client requirements, evaluation criteria, and scoring rubrics to design response strategies that maximise scoring and win-themes
• Author high-quality solution narratives, method statements, case studies, and executive summaries aligned to bid win-themes
• Lead solution defence sessions, clarification calls, orals, and BAFO (Best and Final Offer) discussions with client evaluators
• Contribute to commercial modelling such as effort estimation, resource pyramids, tooling costs, transition & transformation cost-cases, and year-on-year productivity commitments
• Architect end-to-end DevOps platforms covering source control, CI/CD, artefact management, IaC, secrets management, container orchestration, and release orchestration (e.g., GitHub/GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Harness, Spinnaker).
• Design SRE operating models grounded in SLI/SLO/SLA frameworks, error budgets, toil reduction, chaos engineering, and blameless post-mortems.
• Define observability and AIOps architectures using market leading tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic, and OpenTelemetry.
• Design for multi-cloud and hybrid environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud.
• Build automation and AI-led operations narratives
• Design transition and transformation roadmaps including discovery, current-state assessment, target operating model, and roadmap phasing
• Partner with Sales, Bid Management, Commercial, Legal, Delivery, and Transition teams to build integrated proposals.
• Collaborate with hyperscaler and OEM partners to leverage funding, co-sell, and joint value propositions.