Cloud Architect

Job Title - Cloud Architect - Associate Manager - ACS SONG 

Management Level: Level 8- Associate Manager

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Cloud Technologies

Good to have skills: Web Applications

Experience: 8-12 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation

Job Summary

Work with client and internal teams to design and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions. Lead technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and quality assurance from concept through implementation.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead client and supplier workshops to understand the current environment, requirements, constraints, dependencies, and integration interfaces.
• Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Create proofs of concept where needed to validate designs, reduce technical risk, and improve estimate accuracy.
• Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates, including cloud pricing calculations and resource or skill requirements.
• Break solution designs into clear work packages with prerequisites, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
• Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet security and compliance requirements.
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud, on-premises, monolithic, and microservices-based environments.
• Lead technicians, developers, operations, and DevOps teams; delegate tasks, resolve technical issues, and act as the quality gate for deliverables.
• Track infrastructure risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and provide updates to the project RAID log.
• Support internal initiatives and represent the company at relevant industry events.