Drives decisions on security, performance, resilience, and cost trade-offs across solutions.
Shapes standards and governance processes adopted across delivery teams and vendors.
Job Requirements & Capabilities
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 AIready platforms.
Handson 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 InfrastructureasCode (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 enterprisescale deployment patterns.
Strong LLMOps experience, including model lifecycle management, versioning, prompt/config management, rollout strategies (bluegreen/canary), monitoring, alerting, and operational governance for large language models.
Behavioral 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.
