Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer | Hyderabad

Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer

Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership

• Lead the design of cloud-native architectures for complex, large-scale enterprise and digital-native workloads.
• Define reference architectures, reusable patterns, and best practices for multi-tier, microservices, and serverless applications.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide recommendations for scalability, resilience, performance, and cost optimization.
• Partner with business stakeholders, solution architects, and engineering teams to align architectures with organizational goals and compliance standards.
  

Engineering Execution

• Build and deploy cloud-native applications using Java (Spring Boot framework) and related technologies.
• Architect and implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable delivery.
• Provision and manage AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and ELB.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across applications and infrastructure in production and non-production environments.
  

Collaboration & Governance

• Work with CloudOps, DBA, Security, and Application teams to deliver compliant and cost-optimized solutions.
• Ensure designs and implementations meet cloud governance and security standards.
• Support the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) in driving adoption of best practices and reusable frameworks across projects.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and knowledge sharing within the team.
  

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture and engineering roles.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS core services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ELB, VPC, IAM).
• Proficiency in Java with Spring Boot framework.
• Strong knowledge of container-based deployments, orchestration, and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Ansible, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure architectures.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and automation frameworks (GitLab, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Working knowledge of cloud security, IAM, and encryption practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and performance tuning skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage executives, architects, and developers.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer - Professional.
• Experience with container orchestration (ECS, EKS) and serverless design patterns.
• Knowledge of observability frameworks (CloudWatch, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus).
• Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures (AWS and OCI).
• Experience working in high-scale, high-availability environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end architecture and engineering projects in enterprise or digital-native organizations