Senior Cloud & Devops Architect

We are seeking a seasoned Cloud Platform Architect with deep DevOps engineering roots to lead the design, delivery, and governance of enterprise-grade cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This is a strategic and hands-on role-you will set the architectural vision, own cross-cloud standards, and guide engineering teams through end-to-end platform implementation. You bring a developer's instinct and an operator's discipline, enabling organisations to move fast without compromising security, reliability, or cost efficiency.

• Design and deliver multi-cloud platforms acrossAWS, Azure, and GCP,covering compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services.

• Define cloud landing zone strategies, governance frameworks, and account/subscription structures aligned to organisational policies.

• Drive IaC adoption using Terraform, Ansible, or cloud-native tools (CloudFormation / ARM Templates / Deployment Manager / AWS CDK) at enterprise scale.

• Architect and deliver Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE), including cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, RBAC, and node pool strategies.

• Design and govern CI/CD pipeline frameworks supporting trunk-based development, canary, and blue-green deployment strategies.

• DefineHelm chartstandards for application packaging, versioning, and multi-environment promotion across Kubernetes clusters.

• Implement GitOps workflows using Argo CD and establish internal developer platforms (IDPs) and self-service infrastructure capabilities.

• Champion GitDevSecOps-embedding security gates, SAST/DAST, container scanning, SBOM generation, and Policy as Code (OPA/Conftest) into delivery pipelines.

• Own secret management and ensure compliance with CIS, NIST, and SOC 2 cloud security benchmarks.

• Implement service mesh solutions (Istio) for traffic management, mTLS, observability, and fault injection.

• Design cloud networking covering VPC/VNet, transit gateways, WAF, DNS, private connectivity, and zero-trust access models.

• Lead architecture reviews, contribute to ADRs and RFCs, and act as a trusted advisor to engineering and executive leadership.

• Define FinOps strategies, including reserved instances, rightsizing, Spot workloads, and cost visibility tooling.

• Drive scalability and reliability design - auto-scaling, elastic architectures, capacity planning, and chaos engineering practices.

• Design and implement a full-stack observability platform using Grafana and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).

• Define and standardize the collection of metrics, logs, and traces across multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, and GKE).

• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence and blameless post-mortems.

• Strong hands-on expertise across all three major cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, state management, workspaces) and at least one cloud-native IaC tool.

• Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture and operations, including Helm chart authoring, lifecycle management, and multi-cluster patterns.

• Practical experience designing and operating service mesh solutions (Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent).

• Strong cloud networking knowledge, including VPC/VNet design, transit architectures, private connectivity, and zero-trust models.

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining a full observability stack using open-source and/or commercial tooling.

• Strong understanding of Git, DevSecOps principles, and the ability to embed security into platform and delivery pipelines.

• Experience implementing GitOps practices using Argo CD or similar tools.

• Scripting and automation proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.

• Proven experience designing for scale, high availability, and disaster recovery across cloud environments.

• Strong FinOps awareness-ability to architect for cost visibility, accountability, and optimization.

• Exposure to cloud-native data platforms, streaming architectures, or AI/ML infrastructure.

• Experience with multi-region or active-active architecture patterns.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate or Professional

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of practical experience.

• 10+ years in cloud infrastructure and DevOps roles, with at least 3 years in an architect-level or principal engineer position.

• Proven track record of delivering multi-cloud platform programs for mid-to-large enterprises.

• Experience building platform engineering practices or internal developer platforms from the ground up.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to produce clear architectural diagrams, ADRs, and executive-level presentations.

• Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and hands-on levels depending on organizational need.