Hybrid Cloud Architect

We are seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect with a minimum of 15 years of experience to lead the design, transformation, and operationalization of enterprise-scale hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate must behands-on across both on-premise infrastructure and public cloud, with deep understanding of managed services, Day-2 operations, commercial governance, and client-facing solution leadership.

Key Responsibilities

·       Lead end-to-end architecture for hybrid cloud environments spanning on-premise data centers, private cloud, and public cloud platforms.

·       Create high-level and low-level designs, reference architectures, migration roadmaps, operational runbooks, and transition plans.

·       Act as a hands-on architect for infrastructure, cloud landing zones, network connectivity, security controls, identity, backup, monitoring, and automation.

·       Assess current-state IT landscapes and define target-state hybrid cloud solutions aligned to business, technical, security, compliance, and cost objectives.

·       Drive cloud migration and modernization planning, including workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration waves, and risk mitigation.

·       Design and integrate managed services operating models, including ITIL-aligned processes, monitoring, incident/problem/change management, capacity management, patching, backup, DR, and service reporting.

·       Support Day-2 operations readiness by ensuring solutions are supportable, observable, resilient,cost-managed, and aligned to SLAs/OLAs.

·       Engage directly with client stakeholders, including CIO/CTO teams, enterprise architects, infrastructure leads, security teams, procurement, and business owners.

·       Contribute to proposals, solution costing, effort estimation, commercial models, RFP/RFI responses, statements of work, and governance reviews.

·       Collaborate with delivery, operations, security, application, network, and commercial teams to ensure successful solution implementation and handover.

·       Provide technical leadership, mentoring, design governance, and architecture review support across multiple projects or client engagements.

Required Experience & Skills

·       Minimum 15 years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, and enterprise solution design.

·       Strong hands-on expertise in on-premise platforms, including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and data center operations.

·       Proven experience designing hybrid cloud solutions using one or more public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.

·       Strong understanding of private cloud, virtualization, container platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native operating models.

·       Deep knowledge of managed services operations and Day-2 support models, including service transition, operations governance, SLA management, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.

·       Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and commercially viable architecture solutions.

·       Experience with cloud connectivity patterns such as VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, SD-WAN, routing, DNS, firewalling, and hybrid identity integration.

·       Strong understanding of security architecture, IAM, zero trust principles, encryption, vulnerability management, compliance controls, and operational risk.

·       Commercial awareness with ability to support solution pricing, cost optimization, financial governance, service scope definition, and risk/commercial trade-off discussions.

·       Excellent client-facing communication skills, with ability to present complex architecture topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

·       Strong team player with proven ability to work across pre-sales, delivery, operations, and customer teams.

Preferred Certifications

·       Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or Google Professional Cloud Architect.

·       TOGAF, ITIL Foundation /Managing Professional, VMware, Kubernetes, security, or networking certifications are desirable.

Key Competencies

·       Hybrid cloud architecture and modernization strategy

·       Managed services and Day-2operations design

·       Client advisory and stakeholder management

·       Commercial solutioning, estimation, and cost optimization

·       Governance, risk management,and operational resilience

·       Collaboration, mentoring, andcross-functional leadership

Success Measures

·       High-quality, secure,supportable, and commercially sound hybrid cloud architectures.

·       Smooth transition from solution design to implementation and managed services operations.

·       Strong client confidence through clear communication, technical credibility, and delivery ownership.

·       Reduced operational risk through robust Day-2 processes, monitoring, automation, and governance.