About the Role
MBRDI is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design, integration, and continuous evolution of our AWS-based Helios cloud platform ecosystem. Our platform which powers enterprise applications across Sales and After-Sales verticals is currently undergoing a strategic merger of two previously independent platforms. The architect will play a pivotal role in harmonizing these ecosystems, resolving integration challenges, rationalizing services, and defining a unified architectural vision.
This is a senior technical leadership role that blends architecture strategy, hands-on technical expertise, and consultative leadership to ensure scalability, security, developer productivity, and operational excellence across the platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Integration & Rationalization
- Lead the architectural integration of two existing AWS-based platform ecosystems.
- Assess overlaps, dependencies, and inconsistencies across components such as EKS clusters, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and IAM models.
- Provide architecture review and consultation to platform and engineering teams to resolve integration challenges and ensure consistent design principles.
- Define a target-state architecture for a unified, scalable internal developer platform (IDP).
- Establish a clear roadmap for consolidation, migration, and decommissioning of redundant services.
- Platform Architecture & Strategy
- Architecting virtual networks (VPCs/VNets), subnets, and routing tables to optimise traffic flow and segmentation.
- Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture of the internal platform ecosystem spanning: Cloud Excellence (EKS Dedicated Clusters, Namespaces, ECS, Lambda, Launchpad for Mainframe), Developer Ecosystem (JFrog Artifactory, Harbor, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, PactFlow), Event & Data Framework (Kafka-based EventHub, CFT Adapters), Security & Compliance (Bluebox Secure Orchestration, Guardrails, Compliance Dashboards), Observability & Operations (Datadog, centralized monitoring).
- Establish platform-wide standards, reusable patterns, and automation frameworks for consistent adoption across domains.
- Drive innovation while maintaining architectural governance and cost efficiency.
- Platform Engineering Leadership
- Collaborate with engineering leads to build reusable services, plugins, and self-service capabilities (e.g., via Backstage, AWS ordering tools, and Jira Service Desk).
- Champion automation-first principles using Terraform, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions.
- Provide expert guidance on DevSecOps, GitOps, and continuous delivery practices.
- Security, Compliance & Governance
- Design and enforce architecture standards aligned with enterprise security and compliance policies.
- Oversee implementation of automated guardrails, IAM frameworks, and secure orchestration layers (Bluebox).
- Continuously review and enhance the Security & Compliance Dashboard to maintain transparency and auditability.
- Observability, Reliability & Operations
- Define observability and reliability standards using Datadog and other monitoring tools.
- Establish platform SLOs/SLIs and promote proactive incident management and root cause analysis.
- Drive operational maturity through standardization and automation.
- Architecture Consultation & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Act as a trusted consultant to platform, application, and infrastructure teams for architectural reviews, modernization decisions, and migration strategies.
- Engage with senior stakeholders from Sales and After-Sales domains to align the unified platforms roadmap with business objectives.
- Foster collaboration across domain architects, security, and data teams to ensure holistic design integration.
- Mentorship & Thought Leadership
- Mentor platform and DevOps engineers, fostering an engineering culture built on quality, agility, and innovation.
- Contribute to architecture governance boards, design reviews, and technical councils.
- Evangelize platform engineering best practices across the organization.
Required Skills & ExperienceTechnical Expertise
:- 15+ years of overall IT experience, with 810 years of hands-on expertise in AWS cloud architecture and platform engineering.
- Experience in applying software-defined networking (SDN) principles for centralised control and automation
- Proven experience in platform consolidation and integration across multiple business domains or independent ecosystems.
- Experience in Implementing zero-trust security models, integrated firewalls, VPNs, and continuous monitoring for threat detection and compliance.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, Lambda, Terraform/CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Kafka.
- Strong knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation frameworks, and observability stacks (Datadog preferred).
- Experience with developer ecosystem tools such as JFrog Artifactory, Harbor, Backstage, and PactFlow.
- Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, guardrails, and compliance automation frameworks.
- Prior experience integrating or migrating legacy / mainframe-linked systems into modern, cloud-native environments.
- Leadership & Consulting Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to architect, lead, and deliver cross-functional platform initiatives.
- Strong analytical and consultative mindset able to identify architectural risks and propose pragmatic solutions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.
- Passion for developer experience, platform reliability, and continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
- Kubernetes Certified Architect (CKA/CKAD).
- Experience with large-scale platform transformation or merger programs.
- Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization in AWS environments.
- Prior experience in automotive, manufacturing, or large enterprise IT ecosystems is a plus.
