Experience: 10+ years in cloud infrastructure / DevOps, with 3+ years in an architect or lead role

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.

Location: Bangalore

About the Role

We are looking for a Cloud Architect to lead our Cloud Infrastructure team and own the reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization of our CDP platform across all client environments. You will be a hands-on technical leader who sets the architectural direction for cloud infrastructure while managing a small, high-impact team.

This is a leadership hire — you will report directly to the VP Engineering and be accountable for infrastructure that processes billions of customer events monthly for enterprise clients in regulated industries.

What You Will Do

- Define and own the cloud architecture strategy across AWS, GCP and Azure
- Manage and mentor a team of 2 DevOps engineers, growing the team as needed
- Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for all environments — development, staging, production, and client-specific
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD serving all engineering teams
- Own the monitoring and observability stack — alerting, dashboards, incident response, and SLAs
- Manage Kubernetes and container orchestration across all environments
- Drive cloud cost optimization — target 20%+ annual reduction through RI planning, spot instances, right-sizing, and architectural improvements
- Ensure security compliance — access management, encryption, audit trails for regulated industries
- Design and maintain multi-tenant infrastructure for client isolation
- Own disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity planning
- Own and operate Kafka clusters — broker management, topic configuration, consumer group monitoring, performance tuning, and scaling
- Manage MongoDB infrastructure — replica sets, sharding, backup, performance optimization, and capacity planning




- Manage storage infrastructure across both clouds — object storage, block storage, database storage, lifecycle policies, and cost optimization
- Collaborate with data platform teams on analytical database infrastructure (Snowflake, BigQuery) and integration with streaming pipelines
- Support client-facing engineers with environment provisioning, scaling, and performance troubleshooting
- Provision compute resources for data science model training

What You Bring (Must-Have)

- 10+ years in cloud infrastructure / DevOps, with 3+ years in an architect or lead role
- Deep expertise in AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC) and GCP (GCE, GKE, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, IAM)
- Deep expertise in Kafka — cluster deployment, broker tuning, partition management, consumer lag monitoring, scaling strategies, and production troubleshooting
- Deep expertise in MongoDB — replica set architecture, sharding, backup/restore, performance profiling, index optimization, and capacity planning
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes — cluster lifecycle management, pod scheduling, resource limits, networking (Ingress, Service Mesh), RBAC, and troubleshooting production issues
- Strong experience with storage architecture — object storage (S3, GCS), block storage (EBS, Persistent Disks), database storage optimization, lifecycle management, and cross-cloud storage strategies
- Robust experience with CI/CD using GitLab — pipeline design, multi-environment deployments, artifact management, GitLab Runner management, and integration with Kubernetes
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) — multi-cloud provisioning, state management, modular design
- Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or ELK stack)
- Experience with cost optimization at scale — RI planning, spot/preemptible instances, right-sizing, architectural cost decisions across AWS and GCP
- Security-first mindset — experience with compliance frameworks relevant to regulated industries
- Experience managing and mentoring a team of 2–5 engineers
- Strong communication skills — ability to work with data engineers, product engineers, and client-facing teams

📌 Cloud Architect - Bangalore (Bengaluru)
🏢 FirstHive Tech
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