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.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Technical Expertise

AWS (Mandatory – Deep Expertise)





The candidate should possess robust 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

Robust 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 – Skilled
- 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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