Cloud Solutions Architect

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. 

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.