About Position:

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect with strong expertise in Kubernetes, cloud migration, and at any cloud platform (AWS/ Azure/ GCP).
- Role: Cloud Architect (Cloud cost optimization)
- Location: All Persistent Location
- Experience: 9 to 17 years
- Job Type: Full-Time Employment

What You'll Do:
- Analyze cloud usage, billing, and consumption patterns across multiple products
- Identify and implement cost optimization opportunities across:
- Compute, storage, networking
- Idle and underutilized resources
- Drive migration from IBM Cloud Classic to VPC Gen2 architecture. Create roadmap & execute
- Optimize infrastructure through:
- Right-sizing instances
- Auto-scaling implementation
- Storage tier optimization
- Work closely with SRE and engineering teams to:
- Improve architecture efficiency
- Optimize deployment models
- Implement and govern FinOps practices:
- Cost allocation
- Tagging strategies
- Budget tracking
- Build dashboards and reports for:
- Cost trends
- Savings achieved
- Forecasting




- Perform log and usage analysis to detect inefficiencies
- Ensure optimization actions do not impact SLAs or system reliability
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to meet 10% annual cost reduction target

Expertise you will bring:
- Hands-on experience with:
- IBM Cloud (Classic + VPC Gen2) good to have
- AWS or Azure
- Robust understanding of:
- Cloud architecture and cost drivers
- Compute, storage, and network pricing models
- Experience in:
- Cost analysis, optimization, and reporting
- Usage monitoring and trend analysis
- Knowledge & understanding of:
- Logging and monitoring tools (any standard stack)
- Autoscaling, containerization, and distributed systems
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
- Scripting skills (Python / Shell)
- FinOps experience or certification
- Kubernetes / OpenShift cost optimization
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with cloud cost management tools (nat

📌 Cloud Architect (Pune)
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