Principal Architect, Cloud and Platform Engineering

About the role

The role develops reference architectures, reusable patterns, technical standards, and practical governance requirements that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud adoption across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and other approved cloud platforms.

What you'll do

• Shape enterprise cloud architecture by defining and evolving reference architectures, design principles, and reusable patterns across landing zones, networking
• Provide technical direction and architectural governance by leading architecture reviews, guiding teams toward approved cloud services and patterns
• Strengthen cloud standards and governance by identifying gaps in existing policies and controls and translating them into clear, actionable standards, ownership models
• Turn architecture into scalable engineering capabilities by translating requirements into technical specifications and acceptance criteria for Terraform modules
• Enable secure, developer-friendly cloud adoption by partnering with Cloud and Platform Engineering to embed security, identity, networking, tagging, cost

What you need

• 12–15 years in devops & cloud
• AWS
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• Azure
• Shell scripting
• PhD or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Physics
• PowerShell
• Python
• Bash
• Git
• Firewalls

What you get