Cloud Infra Architect Lead — Azure, Hybrid & SRE

The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Singapore Branch); Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Singapore Branch) is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead cloud and on-premises architecture for a financial-services context. You will translate business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable designs, drive hybrid-cloud connectivity, and define target-state infrastructure patterns.

You will collaborate with global architects, security, and delivery partners, supervise migration programs, ensure security-by-design, and deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure architecture disciplines (network, compute, storage, identity, security, operations).
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering/architecture in a financial institution or regulated environment.
• Hands-on experience delivering infrastructure solutions across network, computing, storage, identity and security domains.
• Experience designing and implementing hybrid-cloud connectivity and cloud foundation services.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure architecture for high availability and resiliency (HA/DR).
• Identity and access management fundamentals and security-by-design practices.
• Cloud platform knowledge (landing zone, network, governance, logging/monitoring).
• Capability to lead IT BAU tasks with time and stakeholder management.
• Proactive stakeholder socialization and relationship building.
• Strong verbal, written communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to IT service and cloud strategy by analysing business requirements and defining scalable Azure cloud architecture solutions.
• Define and maintain target-state infrastructure architecture, principles, standards and reference patterns for on-premises and cloud environments.
• Design cloud foundation capabilities (landing zone, network connectivity, identity, key management, logging/monitoring) with alignment to group standards.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide governance for infrastructure changes, ensuring security-by-design and runbooks.
• Architect compute and platform solutions (Windows/Linux, virtualization/containers), storage/backup, and endpoint management per security policies.
• Prepare and present architecture documents, project reports and stakeholder communications for regional management and Head Office counterparts.
• Monitor industry trends, regulatory changes to strengthen cloud risk posture.
• Lead cloud migration efforts for applications and infrastructure with minimal business disruption.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Hybrid cloud

Azure

Security-by-design

HA/DR

IAM fundamentals

Cloud platform knowledge

Leadership

Vendor management

Cybersecurity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology

Tools

Azure

AWS

IaC

Job description

The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Singapore Branch) is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead cloud and on-premises architecture for a financial-services context. You will translate business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable designs, drive hybrid-cloud connectivity, and define target-state infrastructure patterns.

You will collaborate with global architects, security, and delivery partners, supervise migration programs, ensure security-by-design, and deliver