Principal Cloud Architect

Ankercloud; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ankercloud is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect (AWS / GCP) with 12+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience for a senior, consultative technical leadership role. You will own end-to-end cloud architecture, guide migrations, and drive modernization across AWS and Google Cloud from our Bengaluru office.

You will mentor engineers, define landing zones and security patterns, and collaborate with global customers to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on cloud/infrastructure experience.
• Proven principal-level or lead architect with customer-facing delivery.
• Experience with large-scale migrations and hybrid cloud transformation.
• Expertise in IaC, CI/CD, automation, and governance.
• Strong cloud security, networking, observability, and cost optimization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to lead distributed teams in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AWS and GCP infrastructure architecture across discovery, assessment, target-state design, oversight, and transition to operations.
• Translate business and technical requirements into reference architectures, design documents, migration plans, and modernization roadmaps with clear trade-offs and measurable outcomes.
• Define landing zones, multi-account or multi-project setups, network topology, IAM, observability, and reliability patterns for enterprise environments.
• Lead complex end-to-end infrastructure migrations such as on-premises to AWS/GCP and cloud-to-cloud migrations.
• Architect modernization initiatives across compute, storage, networking, IAM, backup/DR, automation, and platform tooling.
• Establish patterns and guardrails for IaC, CI/CD, backup/restore, resiliency, and multi-region designs.
• Mentor engineers and set architecture standards; engage with customers and stakeholders to articulate solutions.

Job description

Bangalore North, India

Ankercloud is a cloud consulting company that specializes in helping businesses maximize their use of public cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. Our services cover a wide range of cloud solutions, including cloud operations (CloudOps), cost optimization, security, and compliance. We offer AI/ML solutions, with a focus on generative AI, predictive maintenance, and demand forecasting. Additionally, Ankercloud supports the transformation of traditional software into SaaS-based solutions, making it easier for companies to scale and innovate using cloud infrastructure.

We are scaled up from a Small to Medium phase business, We are currently expanding across several locations Globally and one of our recent launches is in the USA.

We cater to small, medium, and large enterprise businesses. Some of our clients include those in manufacturing, fin-tech, retail, healthcare and ed-tech.

We specialize in offering AWS solutions in Big data, Cloud and ML and Artificial intelligence. We have partnered with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Job Description

Principal Cloud Architect (AWS / GCP)

Mode: Work from office

Type: Full-time

About Ankercloud

Ankercloud is a global technology consulting and implementation partner that helps ambitious companies turn bold ideas into real products using cloud, data, AI/ML, and security. As a Premier Tier Partner for both AWS and Google Cloud, Ankercloud works with customers across regions and industries to design, build, and operate modern platforms that are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient.

Role Overview

Ankercloud is hiring a Principal Cloud Architect (AWS / GCP) for professionals with 12+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, large-scale migration, and infrastructure modernization. This role is designed for a senior technical leader who combines deep hands‑on expertise across cloud infrastructure, networking, security, resiliency, automation, and platform engineering with strong consultative leadership for enterprise customers.

The role operates at the intersection of infrastructure architecture, migration, modernization, platform engineering, DevOps, security, and customer delivery. It requires the ability to translate complex business problems into scalable, secure, and cloud-native infrastructure solutions on AWS and Google Cloud while mentoring senior engineers and shaping architecture standards across the organization.

What You Will Do

• Own end-to-end infrastructure architecture across AWS and GCP, from discovery, assessment, and target-state design to implementation oversight and transition to operations.
• Translate business and technical requirements into reference architectures, design documents, migration plans, and modernization roadmaps with clear trade-offs and measurable outcomes.
• Define landing zones, multi-account or multi-project setups, network topology, identity and access controls, observability, and reliability patterns for enterprise environments.

Drive Complex Migrations and Modernization

• Lead complex end-to-end infrastructure migrations such as on-premises to AWS or GCP, cloud-to-cloud migrations, data center exits, and hybrid transformation programs.
• Architect and guide infrastructure modernization initiatives across compute, storage, networking, IAM, backup and disaster recovery, automation, container platforms, and operational tooling.
• Establish patterns and guardrails for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, backup and restore, disaster recovery, resiliency engineering, and multi-region or high-availability designs.

Enable Platform Engineering and DevOps

• Infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation to ensure reproducible, versioned, and compliant environments.
• Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams on Kubernetes, Docker, and related tooling to build secure, resilient, and observable infrastructure platforms.
• Define standards for logging, metrics, tracing, capacity planning, patching, governance, and cost management to keep environments reliable and financially efficient.

Partner with Customers and Stakeholders

• Engage directly with customer executives, product leaders, infrastructure teams, architects, and engineering stakeholders to understand pain points, constraints, and success criteria.
• Act as a strategic consultant, clearly articulating solutions, roadmaps, migration approaches, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead and Raise the Bar

• Mentor, inspire, and lead cross-functional engineering teams by setting architecture standards, reviewing designs, and fostering engineering excellence.
• Guide senior engineers and architects on solution design, migration planning, stakeholder engagement, and ownership of complex infrastructure platforms.
• Drive continuous improvement through technology trends, best practices, and process optimization across cloud, security, DevOps, and infrastructure operations.
• Enable competency development through workshops, knowledge sharing sessions, accelerators, and reusable reference implementations.
• Ensure adherence to company guidelines, regulatory expectations, and industry standards for security, compliance, governance, and operational resilience.

Who You Are

• 12+ years of hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud and infrastructure solutions, with strong focus on AWS and GCP.
• Proven track record as a principal-level or lead infrastructure architect delivering complex, multi-team migration and modernization programs in a customer-facing, consultative capacity.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale infrastructure migrations, hybrid cloud transformation, landing zones, resiliency architecture, disaster recovery, and
• Deep expertise in infrastructure as code, containerization, and DevOps practices including CI/CD, automation, environment management, and operational governance.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, identity, observability, reliability, and cost optimization patterns on AWS and GCP.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, with a bias toward practical, high-quality solutions that can be operated and evolved over time.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, lead distributed teams, and drive outcomes in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading large and heterogeneous infrastructure migration programs across
• Exposure to cloud cost optimization, FinOps practices, and designing for cost-performance trade-offs at scale.
• Experience with platform modernization using Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling in production settings.
• Background in consulting or customer-facing delivery across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, or mobility.

What Should Excite You

• The opportunity to shape infrastructure strategy and architecture for a diverse portfolio of customers rather than a single internal platform.
• Working with modern AWS and Google Cloud ecosystems, including security, networking, observability, data, and platform workloads in real customer environments.
• Being part of a high-impact team that combines cloud, data, and AI/ML capabilities to deliver differentiated solutions for global customers.