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Strong expertise in cloud-native application development, containerization, Kubernetes, Azure cloud services, CI/CD automation, and API-driven architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and govern the overall cloud-native architecture, designing scalable, secure, and highly available distributed microservices solutions that align with business and technology objectives.

- Architect and implement enterprise-grade Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, including RBAC models, OAuth2, OIDC, token lifecycle management, and Microsoft Entra ID integrations.

- Design, deploy, and optimize production Kubernetes platforms on Azure, including AKS, service meshes, network policies, autoscaling, resilience, and platform security.

- Lead the architecture of event-driven and distributed systems using Kafka, ensuring reliable asynchronous communication, data consistency, fault tolerance, and high-performance message processing.

- Define enterprise Azure architecture standards covering networking, security, cloud governance, cost optimization, and cloud resource management for production environments.

- Establish strategies for distributed data management, database design, transaction handling, and consistency across microservices-based applications.

- Drive observability and reliability initiatives through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks using tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

- Lead adoption of GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform, Flux, and automated CI/CD pipelines, including deployment strategies such as Canary, Blue-Green, and rollback mechanisms.

- Conduct architecture reviews, provide technical governance,



and mentor engineering teams on cloud-native design patterns, security best practices, and operational excellence.

- Collaborate with product, engineering, DevOps, security, and platform teams to translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and production-ready cloud solutions.

Required Skills:

- System Architecture: Deep expertise in designing, scaling, and governing complex distributed microservices architectures with high availability, resilience, and performance.

- Enterprise Identity &
- Access Management (IAM):

Robust knowledge of RBAC, OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), token lifecycle management, federated identity, and Microsoft Entra ID integration.

- Kubernetes &

- Platform Engineering:

Extensive hands-on experience with production Kubernetes environments, including AKS, service meshes, network policies, autoscaling, workload security, and cluster operations.

- Distributed Data Systems: Strong understanding of database architecture, distributed transactions, consistency patterns, data replication, caching, and fault-tolerant system design.

- Event-Driven Architecture: Proven experience designing and implementing Kafka-based asynchronous messaging systems, including event-driven communication patterns, retry mechanisms, broker tuning,



and secure service-to-service interactions.

- Microsoft Azure Architecture: Deep expertise in Azure cloud architecture, including networking, security, governance, AKS infrastructure, cloud cost optimization, and enterprise-scale deployments.

- Observability &

- Reliability Engineering:

Experience implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent observability platforms.

- GitOps &

- Infrastructure-as-Code:

Strong expertise with Terraform, Flux, GitOps practices, CI/CD automation, deployment strategies (Canary, Blue / Green), and automated rollback mechanisms.

- Security &

- Compliance:

Solid understanding of cloud security best practices, Zero Trust principles, secure architecture design, encryption, secrets management, and compliance requirements.

- Technical Leadership: Ability to lead architecture reviews, establish technical standards, mentor engineering teams, and drive adoption of cloud-native best practices across projects.

Good to Have :

- Experience with multi-region Azure deployments, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

- Familiarity with API gateways, service meshes, and advanced traffic management strategies.

- Exposure to cloud cost optimization, and Azure governance frameworks.

- Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, CKA, or Terraform Associate.

Education &

- Experience:

- Bachelors degree in computer science or related field.

- 6-8 years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Azure, Kubernetes and cloud-native solutions.

📌 Cloud Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Motherson Technology Services
📍 Bengaluru