We are looking for an accomplished Technical Architect with 8 years of experience in designing, implementing, and leading enterprise-grade cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong combination of technical architecture, hands-on engineering, automation, cloud transformation, application deployment, and technical leadership experience.

The candidate will be responsible for architecting highly available, scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized platforms while driving automation, standardization, CI/CD adoption, containerization, observability, and continuous improvement across the organization.

The role requires a strong understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, coupled with the ability to work hands-on with engineering teams and provide technical direction across the complete application and infrastructure lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture &

- AWS:
- Design and implement enterprise-scale AWS architectures that are secure, highly available, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective.
- Define cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and infrastructure best practices.
- Provide hands-on expertise across AWS services including: VPC, EC2, EFS, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancer, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, Lifecycle Manager, SNS, Lambda, Secrets Manager, MSK, ElastiCache, ACM, DynamoDB, Security Hub, SES, S3 Glacier, Fault Injection Service, and RDS.
- Design solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, scalability, performance, and fault tolerance.
- Perform architecture and infrastructure reviews to identify opportunities for performance improvement, security enhancement, automation, and cost optimization.

Infrastructure as Code &

- Platform Automation:
- Architect and implement infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, following modular, reusable, version-controlled, and scalable IaC practices.
- Establish Terraform standards covering modules, remote state, workplace isolation, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Automate infrastructure configuration, provisioning, patching, backup, and operational processes.
- Develop Ansible playbooks for OS configuration, patch management, application configuration, and recurring operational activities.
- Develop robust Shell scripts for infrastructure, application, database, and log-management automation.
- Reduce manual operational activities through automation and self-service infrastructure capabilities.

CI/CD &

- DevSecOps Architecture:
- Design and implement enterprise-grade CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines using Jenkins.
- Configure and manage Jenkins environments from the ground up, including distributed build and deployment architectures.
- Integrate SonarQube/SAST, security scanning, automated testing, artifact management, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage artifact lifecycle and repositories using JFrog Artifactory.
- Establish standardized build, deployment, release, rollback, and promotion strategies across multiple environments.
- Troubleshoot complex pipeline, build, deployment, and integration issues and provide architectural solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement in deployment frequency,



release reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

Kubernetes, Docker &

- Cloud-Native Platforms:
- Architect and manage containerized and cloud-native application platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Design Kubernetes environments with focus on scalability, availability, security, networking, resource optimization, and operational resilience.
- Develop and manage Helm charts for standardized application deployment and configuration.
- Define best practices for Kubernetes workloads, configuration management, secrets, ingress, scaling, health checks, and deployment strategies.
- Lead application modernization initiatives involving microservices, containerization, and Kubernetes adoption.

Application &

- Database Architecture:
- Provide technical architecture and deployment expertise for microservices, Apache Tomcat, and Angular-based applications.
- Design application deployment strategies supporting scalability, reliability, security, and seamless releases.
- Architect and manage database platforms including MySQL, MongoDB, and YugabyteDB.
- Define database provisioning, backup, recovery, high availability, monitoring, and performance-management strategies.
- Automate database backup and maintenance activities.
- Work closely with development teams to resolve application, database, performance, and integration challenges.

Networking, Reverse Proxy &

- Traffic Management:
- Design and manage application traffic and reverse-proxy solutions using NGINX and HAProxy.
- Configure load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, routing, health checks, and traffic-management policies.
- Troubleshoot complex networking, connectivity, routing, and application-access issues.
- Ensure secure and optimized communication between application, infrastructure, and cloud components.

Observability, Monitoring &

- Logging:
- Design and implement enterprise monitoring and observability strategies using AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and Nagios.
- Establish infrastructure, application, service, and availability monitoring with effective alerting and escalation mechanisms.
- Implement centralized logging and log analytics using Graylog and ELK Stack.
- Develop dashboards and operational metrics to provide visibility into system health, performance, capacity, and availability.
- Define proactive monitoring and alerting strategies to minimize service disruption and improve MTTR.

Environment, Release &

- Infrastructure Management:
- Architect and manage Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
- Define environment-specific infrastructure standards, sizing, capacity, security, and deployment strategies.
- Design infrastructure and instance strategies to support different application releases and workloads.
- Ensure consistency across environments through automation and Infrastructure as Code.




- Establish and maintain standards for backup, disaster recovery, patch management, security, monitoring, and operational readiness.

Technical Leadership:

- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to DevOps, Cloud, Development, QA, and IT teams.
- Translate business and application requirements into scalable and maintainable technical architectures.
- Lead architecture discussions, solution design, technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and technical reviews.
- Act as the senior technical escalation point for critical infrastructure, deployment, and production issues.
- Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards, best practices, and operational processes.
- Collaborate with application and business stakeholders to ensure solutions align with business objectives.
- Drive initiatives focused on automation, reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost optimization.

Core Technical Expertise:

- Cloud: AWS VPC, EC2, EFS, ELB, Auto Scaling, IAM, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, Secrets Manager, MSK, ElastiCache, ACM, Security Hub, Glacier, Fault Injection Service
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Configuration &
- Automation: Ansible, Shell Scripting
- CI/CD &
- DevSecOps: Jenkins, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory
- Containers &
- Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, YugabyteDB
- Source Control: GitHub, GitLab
- Application Platforms: Apache Tomcat, Microservices, Angular
- Web &
- Proxy: NGINX, HAProxy
- Monitoring &
- Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Nagios
- Logging: ELK Stack, Graylog

Required Qualifications:

- 8 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Technical Architecture.
- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade AWS architectures.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Ansible, and Shell scripting.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud-native architecture, microservices, and automation.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, observability, and production support.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and performance engineering.
- Experience working across multiple environments and supporting mission-critical production workloads.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineering teams, and make architecture-level decisions.

What Success Looks Like:

The successful candidate will help establish a secure, scalable, automated, and highly resilient technology platform that enables development teams to deliver applications faster and more reliably.

You will play a key role in driving cloud transformation, infrastructure automation, DevSecOps adoption, Kubernetes modernization, observability, cost optimization, and operational excellence, while ensuring that technology solutions remain aligned with business and application requirements.

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