Title: Cloud Solutions Architect
Location: Gurugram / Hybrid
Type: Full-time
Cloud Architecture Strategy & Standards
- Define cloud reference architectures, design principles, and guardrails for AWS and Azure.
- Develop target-state architectures across networking, compute, data, identity, and platform services.
- Establish reusable architectural patterns and design standards for consistent adoption across teams.
Solution Design & Governance
- Provide oversight and governance to ensure solutions adhere to security, resilience, cost, and operational requirements.
- Conduct architectural reviews, support compliance with cloud guardrails, and ensure alignment with enterprise-wide patterns.
- Guide product teams on architectural trade-offs, future-state planning, and selection of platform components.
Technical Leadership Across Teams & Vendors
- Lead architectural direction for high-impact cloud initiatives, multi-team platforms, and strategic product builds.
- Provide guidance to internal teams and external vendors to ensure architectural consistency and quality.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, security teams, and product owners to shape end-to-end solution design.
Security, Resilience & Operational Excellence
- Embed cloud security best practices (IAM, identity federation, encryption, network segmentation, least privilege).
- Ensure resilience through multi-AZ/region patterns, automated recovery, failover strategies, and design for high availability.
- Contribute to operational readiness through logging, monitoring, cost controls, and lifecycle management of cloud components.
Cost Management & Optimization
- Define cost-optimised architecture patterns and guide teams on capacity planning, rightsizing, and cloud economics.
- Partner with FinOps/operations teams to improve visibility into consumption and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Architecture Enablement & Knowledge Sharing
- Provide architectural coaching and guidance to engineers, promoting cloud fluency across teams.
- Maintain architecture documentation, reusable reference designs, and platform guidelines.
- Contribute to developing ERM's cloud operating model and long-term architecture roadmap.
Influence And Decision-Making Authority
- Sets architectural direction for cloud platforms, shared services, and multi-team product ecosystems.
- Influences enterprise-level decisions regarding cloud technology choices, patterns, and target-state evolution.
- Drives decisions on security, performance, resilience, and cost trade-offs across solutions.
- Shapes standards and governance processes adopted across delivery teams and vendors.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex enterprise-grade solutions on cloud platforms.
- Deep hands-on architectural exposure across AWS and Azure, including multi-account/subscription architectures.
- Experience leading or governing cloud adoption across multiple products, teams, or business units.
Technical Skills
- Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure architecture across compute, networking, storage, IAM, security, and observability, with a primary focus on building and operating AI‑ready platforms.
- Hands‑on experience designing and running shared AI platforms using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), container orchestration, serverless components, and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of cloud-native networking, hybrid connectivity, VPN/Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, load balancing, and private endpoints.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) and automated platform provisioning, including environment standardization and guardrails.
- Strong grasp of resilience patterns, multi-region architectures, disaster recovery, and zero-trust security principles.
- Strong focus on cost governance for AI platforms, including usage metering, quota management, autoscaling controls, and optimization of inference costs.
- Proficiency with Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry including tenant isolation, identity integration, quota enforcement, networking controls, observability, and enterprise‑scale deployment patterns. (Desired)
- Strong LLMOps experience, including model lifecycle management, versioning, prompt/config management, rollout strategies (blue‑green/canary), monitoring, alerting, and operational governance for large language models.
Behavioural Skills
- Strong leadership presence and ability to influence decisions across cross-functional and multi-vendor environments.
- Excellent communicator able to articulate complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Structured thinker with a strategic mindset and ability to plan for future-state architectures.
- Pragmatic, collaborative, and able to balance ideal design with delivery constraints.
- Comfortable working in dynamic environments involving ambiguity and evolving technical landscapes.
Desirable/Nice to Have
- Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect (Professional), Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent.
- Experience designing internal developer platforms or shared cloud platforms at scale.
- Exposure to enterprise security frameworks, compliance requirements, and cloud governance tooling.
- Experience leading architectural modernization programs or cloud migrations.
- Background in platform engineering, SRE, or distributed systems design
