Platform Architect

Fractal; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Fractal in Bengaluru, India, is seeking a Platform Architect to design and maintain cloud-based platforms, collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. You will deploy, debug, automate infrastructure with Terraform/Terragrunt and configuration management tools, while guiding development teams on cloud-native engineering.

This role emphasizes incident response, optimization, and documenting best practices across

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in cloud engineering and infrastructure deployment.
• Proficient across AWS, Azure, or GCP with security and cost optimization focus.
• Hands-on with DevOps tools and IaC for automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems with a focus on data and analytics workloads.

Skills

Platform Architecture

Multi-cloud

IaC

DevOps tooling

Scripting

Security & cost optimization

IT infra familiarity

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

GitHub

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

Datadog

dbt

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

About the Role

We are looking for a Platform Architect to join our team and work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to implement, optimize, and maintain our cloud-based platforms—especially in the data and analytics space. You will be responsible for deploying, debugging, and supporting cloud systems, automating infrastructure, and ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems with a focus on data and analytics workloads.
• Implement and maintain cloud solutions following industry best practices and company policies.
• Ensure efficient operation of data storage and compute resources, aligned with cloud security standards.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues.
• Continuously review and improve existing systems and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to provide cloud support and recommend solutions.
• Automate infrastructure deployment using tools like Terraform, Terragrunt, and configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Work with DevOps and ITIL practices to streamline operations and deployments.
• Support secure and cost-optimized cloud implementations in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and Cybersecurity teams.
• Document cloud infrastructure strategies, standards, and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams on cloud-native engineering.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available platform infrastructure.
• Develop and improve cloud-native platforms, automation frameworks, and deployment pipelines.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Monitor platform performance, reliability, and security, and proactively resolve issues.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to optimize application delivery.
• Establish platform standards, best practices, and operational procedures.
  Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on platform architecture and operations.

Skills & Experience

• Experience with source control tools such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java), RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL), and message queues.
• Strong understanding of cloud concepts and hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in cloud engineering and infrastructure deployment.
• Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including security, cost optimization, and automation.
• Familiarity with IT infrastructure domains: compute, storage, networking, and service delivery.
• Experience with compliance and security standards in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools: Ansible, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, SonarQube.
• Mandatory experience with the following cloud services:
  • Google Cloud: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, Firestore, Cloud Composer, Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, Data Catalog, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI
  • AWS: Redshift, S3 Buckets, Lambda Functions
  • Azure: Blob Storage, SQL Database
  • Other Tools: Terraform, Terragrunt, dbt, Datadog

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!