Job Description

• Design, develop, and enforce cloud governance based on the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework (WAF), which includes:
  a. Cost Management: Developing policies for cost control across all cloud platforms.
  b. Security Baseline: Developing and enforcing security policies across network, data, and asset configurations.
  c. Identity Baseline: Ensuring consistent application of identity across cloud adoption efforts.
  d. Resource Consistency: Ensuring resources are configured consistently to manage risks related to onboarding, drift, discoverability, and recovery.
  e. Deployment Acceleration: Accelerating cloud deployment activities through tools such as automation, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), and DevSecOps pipelines.

• Hybrid/multi-cloud design, workload migration, networking (DX, ExpressRoute, Cloud Interconnect), multi-cloud disaster recovery and implement cloud architecture (landing zones) for applications based on stakeholder requirements.
• Develop necessary operational processes to ensure excellent cloud performance.
• Provide intensive support in incident handling and troubleshooting cloud-related issues, including root cause analysis for production errors, and documenting post-mortem reports and technical reports of incidents and infrastructure issues.
• Assist in security consulting to address cloud-based security vulnerabilities.
• Design, develop, and implement automation to optimize application availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and alerting.
• Prepare documentation to seamlessly hand over day-to-day operational tasks to the Day 2 Operations Team.
• Provide cloud knowledge transfer for the enterprise cloud implementation team.

Qualifications

• Experience 3+ years in Cloud Architect, with deep hands-on in at least 2 hyperscalers and familiarity with others or at least 3 years multi-cloud governance.

• ​Multi-cloud literacy: Familiarity with the service models, IAM patterns, networking, and security controls of at least 3 strategic clouds (Azure, AWS, OCI) and working knowledge of GCP & Huawei Cloud.

• Cloud Governance: Understanding of FinOps, compliance (CIS, NIST, ISO, GDPR), and policy enforcement (Azure Policy, AWS SCP/Config, GCP Org Policy, OCI IAM/Policies, Huawei Enterprise Management).

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with Terraform (multi-cloud), CloudFormation (AWS), Deployment Manager (GCP), Resource Manager (OCI), and Huawei HCL.

• Zero Trust & Security Posture: Mastery of IAM, encryption, identity federation, audit logging, and workload isolation across providers.

• Cloud Operations (Day-2): Monitoring, incident response, DR drills, cost optimization, SRE/ITIL practices.

• Soft Skills: Stakeholder communication, executive reporting, mentoring, change management.