Job Title: Solution Architect – Cloud Engineering CoE

Location:
Bangalore

About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Senior Solution Architect to join our Cloud Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE). This role combines strategic solution architecture, pre-sales consulting, technical leadership, and delivery ownership. The ideal candidate will work closely with sales, business stakeholders, customers, and engineering teams to design, propose, and deliver modern cloud-native solutions that drive business transformation. This is a highly visible role requiring deep expertise across AWS services, strong customer
- facing capabilities, and the ability to actively participate in architecture, design, and implementation activities. The candidate must be comfortable operating from boardroom discussions to hands-on technical execution.

Key Responsibilities
Pre-Sales & Solution Consulting
• Partner with sales and business teams to understand customer requirements and translate them into scalable cloud solutions.
• Lead technical discovery workshops, architecture discussions, and solution envisioning sessions with customers.
• Develop solution architectures, technical proposals, Statements of Work (SOWs), effort estimates, and implementation roadmaps.
• Participate in RFP, RFI, and RFQ responses.
• Present solution approaches, architecture options, business value propositions, and technology recommendations to customer stakeholders.
• Support deal qualification, solution positioning, and technical due diligence activities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers on cloud adoption, modernization, migration, and transformation initiatives. Solution Architecture & Design
• Design end-to-end cloud architectures aligned with business, security, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization requirements.
• Define target-state architectures for cloud migration, cloud-native application development, data platforms, and enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Create architecture blueprints, reference architectures, design standards, and reusable patterns for the Cloud Engineering CoE.
• Establish cloud governance, security, operational excellence, and FinOps best practices.
• Ensure architecture compliance with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and security controls. Delivery Leadership & Implementation
• Drive architecture governance throughout the implementation lifecycle.




• Work closely with engineering teams to translate architecture into implementable designs.
• Provide technical leadership during solution implementation and deployment.
• Review solution designs, code, infrastructure definitions, and deployment pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex technical challenges and provide architectural guidance to delivery teams.
• Participate directly in critical implementation activities when required.
• Mentor cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, and technical leads. Cloud Engineering & Automation
• Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevSecOps, platform engineering, and automation practices.
• Design and implement automated cloud landing zones, CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks, and security controls.
• Drive cloud operational excellence, resilience, and reliability engineering practices.
• Promote reusable cloud accelerators, frameworks, templates, and engineering standards across projects. CoE & Capability Development
• Contribute to the growth of the Cloud Engineering CoE through thought leadership, innovation, and best practices.
• Develop reusable assets, reference architectures, accelerators, and solution playbooks.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
• Support capability building, technical training, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of overall IT experience.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud solution architecture and cloud transformation programs.
• Proven experience in customer-facing solution architecture and pre-sales engagements.
• Experience leading architecture and implementation for large-scale enterprise cloud programs.
• Robust stakeholder management and communication skills. Technical Expertise AWS (Mandatory – Deep Expertise) The candidate should possess strong hands-on experience across a broad range of AWS services, including: Compute & Containers
• EC2
• ECS
• EKS
• Lambda
• Auto Scaling
• Elastic Beanstalk Networking




• VPC
• Transit Gateway
• Route 53
• Direct Connect
• VPN
• Load Balancers
• CloudFront Storage & Data Services
• S3
• EBS
• EFS
• FSx
• Glacier Databases
• RDS
• Aurora
• DynamoDB
• ElastiCache
• Redshift Security & Governance
• IAM
• Organizations
• Control Tower
• Security Hub
• GuardDuty
• WAF
• KMS
• Secrets Manager
• Inspector Integration & Messaging
• SQS
• SNS
• EventBridge
• API Gateway Monitoring & Operations
• CloudWatch
• CloudTrail
• Systems Manager
• Config DevOps & Automation
• CloudFormation
• CDK
• CodePipeline
• CodeBuild
• CodeDeploy Secondary Cloud Platform (Required) Experience with at least one additional cloud platform: Preferred:
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Alternatively:
• Microsoft Azure Strong understanding of:
• Multi-cloud architectures
• Cloud-native design patterns
• Cross-cloud networking and security
• Cloud migration strategies DevOps & Platform Engineering Hands-on experience with:
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins
• ArgoCD
• Helm
• Platform Engineering concepts
• Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) Security & Compliance Knowledge of:
• Zero Trust Architecture
• IAM and Federation
• DevSecOps
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Security automation
• Regulatory compliance frameworks Observability & Operations Experience with:
• Cloud-native monitoring solutions
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry
• Logging and tracing frameworks
• SRE principles Preferred Certifications AWS
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty GCP (Preferred)
• Professional Cloud Architect
• Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Additional
• Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD)
• Terraform Associate Key Competencies
• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Cloud Strategy
• Cloud Migration & Modernization
• Application Modernization
• DevOps & Platform Engineering
• Technical Leadership
• Customer Engagement
• Pre-Sales Consulting
• Executive Communication
• Problem Solving
• Stakeholder Management
• Mentoring & Team Development

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