Cloud Architect

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 3500000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 35 - 45 LPA)

Min Experience: 8+ years

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have 8–13 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure architecture, and DevOps practices, with strong expertise in Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud architecture design. You will play a key role in defining cloud strategies, modernizing infrastructure, and enabling engineering teams to deliver applications efficiently through automation and best practices.

As a Cloud Architect, you will collaborate with software engineering, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to build resilient cloud platforms that support business growth while ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud architectures for enterprise applications.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable seamless application deployment and infrastructure automation.
• Architect cloud-native solutions following industry best practices for availability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend modernization strategies to improve performance and operational efficiency.
• Define cloud governance, security standards, networking architecture, and identity management frameworks.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate infrastructure automation into software delivery workflows.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform reliability and proactive issue resolution.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and implement cost-management strategies.
• Drive automation initiatives to minimize manual processes and improve deployment consistency.
• Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Stay updated with emerging cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and infrastructure trends.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8–13 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or cloud architecture.
• Strong expertise in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Extensive experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools.
• Deep understanding of cloud architectures, including highly available, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts, security best practices, IAM, load balancing, DNS, and virtual networking.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in scripting using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and infrastructure performance optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• Familiarity with GitOps methodologies and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Knowledge of cloud security, compliance frameworks, and governance policies.
• Experience implementing multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are highly desirable.
• Exposure to serverless architectures, event-driven systems, and cloud cost optimization tools.