Cloud Architect

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 3200000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 32-45 LPA)

Min Experience: 8+ years

Location: Pune

JobType: full-time

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect with 8–14 years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprise-grade applications. This role is ideal for a technology leader who possesses deep expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will play a key role in defining cloud strategy, designing secure and resilient architectures, and driving infrastructure standardization using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

As a Cloud Architect, you will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and product teams to build cloud-native solutions that are highly available, cost-efficient, and scalable. You will also mentor engineering teams on cloud best practices and ensure that cloud environments align with organizational security, compliance, and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures for modern applications.
• Define cloud adoption strategies, reference architectures, and infrastructure standards across projects.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to automate provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Architect cloud networking, identity management, storage, compute, and monitoring solutions.
• Collaborate with development teams to build cloud-native applications and microservices-based architectures.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability strategies for mission-critical workloads.
• Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, encryption, network segmentation, and compliance controls.
• Drive infrastructure automation and CI/CD integration for faster and more reliable deployments.
• Evaluate new cloud services and emerging technologies to improve platform capabilities.
• Monitor cloud environments, troubleshoot architectural issues, and recommend performance improvements.
• Provide technical leadership, conduct architecture reviews, and mentor engineering teams on cloud best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8–14 years of experience in software infrastructure, cloud engineering, or cloud architecture.
• Strong expertise in designing enterprise-scale cloud solutions on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning, managing, and automating cloud infrastructure.
• Proven experience architecting highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, virtual private clouds (VPCs), load balancing, DNS, storage, and compute services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation tools.
• Experience implementing cloud security frameworks, IAM, governance, monitoring, and compliance best practices.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud-native design principles.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or similar.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and architectural decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities with experience working across cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Exposure to FinOps practices, cloud cost optimization, and governance frameworks.
• Experience implementing enterprise security, compliance, and disaster recovery strategies.