About Persistent

We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what's next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our disruptor's mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We reported $1,654.4M FY26 revenue with 17.4% Y-o-Y growth.

We have delivered 24 sequential quarters of growth with $436.0M in Q4 FY26 revenue, up 3.2% Q-o-Q and 16.2% Y-o-Y growth. Our 27,500+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We have been recognized as the Fastest Growing IT Services Brand Globally in the 2026 Brand Finance IT Services 25 Report.

We named a Leader in the Everest Group Private Equity (PE) Services PEAK Matrix Assessment 2026 and Software Product Engineering PEAK Matrix Assessment 2026.

About Position:

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal AWS Solution Architect to lead enterprise cloud transformation initiatives with deep expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Automation, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, and FinOps. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining cloud strategy, designing enterprise-scale cloud solutions, driving automation and governance frameworks, and enabling engineering teams through modern platform capabilities. This role requires a combination of strategic architecture leadership, hands-on cloud engineering expertise, stakeholder management, cloud financial governance, and enterprise transformation experience.

The candidate will play a key role in helping organizations build secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud platforms on AWS.

- Role: Principal AWS Solution Architect
- Location: Pune
- Experience: 15 to 20 Years
- Job Type: Full-Time Employment

What You'll Do:

- Define enterprise AWS architecture standards, governance models, and cloud adoption frameworks.
- Design highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native architectures.
- Lead cloud transformation, migration, modernization, and platform engineering initiatives.
- Establish AWS Landing Zones, multi-account strategies, and cloud governance frameworks.
- Conduct architecture assessments, design reviews, and solution governance activities.
- Define cloud operating models, security controls, and operational best practices.
- Establish adoption of AI and GenAI-driven automation approaches within cloud operations and infrastructure management.
- Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
- Build automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment frameworks.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules, templates, and engineering accelerators.
- Implement self-service infrastructure and cloud platform capabilities.
- Establish platform engineering standards and reusable cloud services.




- Automate security, compliance, monitoring, and operational processes.
- Drive infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Define and implement DevSecOps, GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
- Build automated deployment pipelines for cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Integrate security controls and compliance requirements throughout engineering workflows.
- Drive secure software delivery practices and cloud-native engineering standards.
- Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and operational excellence frameworks.
- Improve engineering productivity through automation and modern delivery practices.
- Lead adoption of cloud-native technologies, containers, and Kubernetes platforms.
- Define and implement enterprise FinOps strategies and governance frameworks.
- Drive AWS cost optimization initiatives through architecture modernization and resource optimization.
- Establish cost governance, tagging standards, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting practices.
- Implement chargeback and showback models for cloud financial accountability.
- Optimize resource consumption using Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and AWS cost management tools.
- Create cloud cost dashboards, executive reports, and financial optimization recommendations.
- Partner with engineering and business teams to balance cost, performance, security, and scalability objectives.
- Provide technical leadership across architecture, cloud engineering, and platform teams.
- Mentor architects, cloud engineers, DevOps practitioners, and platform engineering teams.
- Drive architecture governance and cloud engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to align cloud strategies with organizational goals.
- Support customer engagements, solutioning activities, proposals, and strategic technology roadmaps.
- Present architecture recommendations and transformation strategies to executive leadership.
- Lead architecture reviews, governance forums, and technical decision-making processes.
- Define monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks.
- Implement operational governance and cloud reliability practices.
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and service improvement initiatives.
- Establish SRE-driven operational excellence and platform resilience standards.
- Drive automation-first approaches for cloud operations and support functions.
- Support modernization of legacy applications to cloud-native architectures.
- Guide teams on microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and serverless computing.
- Advise on containerization strategies using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
- Support modernization initiatives across Java, .NET, and enterprise application platforms.

Expertise You'll Bring:

- 15–20 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
- Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing AWS-based enterprise solutions.




- Strong expertise in AWS architecture, cloud transformation, and large-scale migration programs.
- Extensive experience designing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native solutions.
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Strong experience with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and infrastructure automation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, EventBridge, IAM, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, KMS, and Control Tower.
- Strong understanding of multi-account strategies, landing zones, cloud governance, and security architecture.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps, CI/CD, GitOps, and cloud automation practices.
- Expertise with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Amazon EKS.
- Strong understanding of platform engineering and self-service cloud platforms.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or OpenSearch.
- Strong knowledge of FinOps practices including cost optimization, budgeting, forecasting, and cloud financial governance.
- Experience with AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Compute Optimizer, Cost Usage Reports, Trusted Advisor, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances.
- Experience leading cloud transformation programs and enterprise modernization initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, and consulting skills.
- Experience mentoring architects and engineering teams in enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of cloud security, compliance, risk management, and governance frameworks.
- Exposure to application modernization, microservices, serverless computing, and container platforms is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and decision-making capabilities.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
- Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
- Annual health check-ups
- Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment: Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

- We support hybrid work and flexible schedule to fit diverse lifestyles.
- Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
- If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

Let's unleash your full potential at Persistent - persistent.com/careers “Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.”

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📌 Principal AWS Solution Architect (Pune)
🏢 Persistent Systems
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