Here is the job description: Job Title: Senior Manager - Cloud Architecture & Engineering(AWS) Location: Jaipur - Hybrid Job Type: Full-Time # of openings: 1 Experience: 10+ years Shift: 2-11pm IST Senior Architect - AWS We are seeking a seasoned AWS Architect with leadership and people-management experience. In this dual-capacity role, you will be responsible for designing and steering the cloud architecture strategy, driving execution, and managing a team of architects/engineers. You will act both as a technical visionary and as a manager who can mentor, coordinate, make trade-off decisions, and ensure delivery excellence. Roles & Responsibilities: Architecture & Technical Leadership Define, design, and validate scalable, secure, high-performance cloud architectures on AWS to meet business needs. Evaluate existing infrastructure, identify gaps, and propose improvements and migrations to AWS. Establish architectural standards, best practices, and guardrails (security, cost, availability, performance). Lead proof-of-concept (PoC) implementations, prototyping, and validate new AWS services for use. Oversee selection of tools, frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) (e.g., AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK). Review designs and code from your team; ensure consistency and adherence to architecture. Monitor architecture health (scalability, fault tolerance, cost optimization, security) and continuously iterate. Engage with stakeholders (product, business, operations, security) to translate high-level requirements into cloud solutions. Define, design, and validate scalable, secure, and high-performance AWS architectures aligned with business goals. Establish architectural standards, best practices, and guardrails (governance, security, performance, cost). Lead prototyping, proof of concepts, and evaluating new AWS services and tools for their migration-fit and architectural benefits. Management & Team Leadership Recruit, mentor, and manage a team of cloud architects and engineers. Define team goals, performance metrics, and growth plans. Allocate resources, prioritize tasks/projects, manage timelines, and resolve dependencies or conflicts. Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and architectural thinking. Conduct architecture reviews, technical governance, and design sign-off processes. Drive cross-team collaboration (DevOps, SRE, Security, Application teams) to align on cross-cutting concerns. Represent the team to leadership; provide status, risks, escalations, and roadmap input. Operational Excellence & Governance Define cloud governance policies: IAM, resource tagging, cost controls, compliance, and security. Monitor and optimize the cost, utilization, and performance of AWS services. Set up logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, etc.). Build disaster recovery strategies, high-availability, backup/restore, and resilience patterns. Ensure security best practices: network design, encryption, least privilege, vulnerability scanning, compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI as relevant). Perform risk assessments, threat modeling, and architectural hardening. Stakeholder Engagement & Strategy Interact with senior leadership, product owners, and business stakeholders to align cloud strategy with business goals. Provide architectural direction and guidance across multiple projects or initiatives. Make trade-off decisions (usability, cost, performance, security) in ambiguous settings. Stay informed about AWS service updates & roadmap; assess how they can benefit your organization. Requirements Qualifications & Skills Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Extensive hands-on experience (8+ years) designing and implementing cloud solutions, especially on AWS. Proven experience in a leadership or technical management role (managing architects, engineers). Deep knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, etc.). Experience in infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar). Strong understanding of security, networking, identity, and access management in AWS. Solid experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices. Excellent problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder-management skills. Ability to make technical decisions under ambiguity and trade-offs. AWS Certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer). Experience in microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless, and containers. Experience with hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, or migration projects.Experience in compliance frameworks relevant to your domain (e.g., GDPR, PCI, HIPAA). Familiarity with performance tuning, cost-optimization, and monitoring/observability tooling. Experience in a start-up or fast-moving product environment. Published talks, blogs, or community contributions in the cloud/architecture domain. Consultancy/advisory experience. Willingness to work flexible shifts to support customers in different time zones. Sincerely, Varun Vij | TalentVidas Director – Sales & Delivery Varun@TalentVidas.com
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