Cloud Architect - Bangalore

About the Role

We are looking for a Cloud Architect to lead our Cloud Infrastructure team and own the reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization of our CDP platform across all client environments. You will be a hands-on technical leader who sets the architectural direction for cloud infrastructure while managing a small, high-impact team.

This is a leadership hire - you will report directly to the VP Engineering and be accountable for infrastructure that processes billions of customer events monthly for enterprise clients in regulated industries.

What You Will Do

• Define and own the cloud architecture strategy across AWS, GCP and Azure
• Manage and mentor a team of 2 DevOps engineers, growing the team as needed
• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for all environments - development, staging, production, and client-specific
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD serving all engineering teams
• Own the monitoring and observability stack - alerting, dashboards, incident response, and SLAs
• Manage Kubernetes and container orchestration across all environments
• Drive cloud cost optimization - target 20%+ annual reduction through RI planning, spot instances, right-sizing, and architectural improvements
• Ensure security compliance - access management, encryption, audit trails for regulated industries
• Design and maintain multi-tenant infrastructure for client isolation
• Own disaster recovery, backup strategies, and business continuity planning
• Own and operate Kafka clusters - broker management, topic configuration, consumer group monitoring, performance tuning, and scaling
• Manage MongoDB infrastructure - replica sets, sharding, backup, performance optimization, and capacity planning
• Manage storage infrastructure across both clouds - object storage, block storage, database storage, lifecycle policies, and cost optimization
• Collaborate with data platform teams on analytical database infrastructure (Snowflake, BigQuery) and integration with streaming pipelines
• Support client-facing engineers with environment provisioning, scaling, and performance troubleshooting
• Provision compute resources for data science model training

What You Bring (Must-Have)

• 10+ years in cloud infrastructure / DevOps, with 3+ years in an architect or lead role
• Deep expertise in AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC) and GCP (GCE, GKE, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, IAM)
• Deep expertise in Kafka - cluster deployment, broker tuning, partition management, consumer lag monitoring, scaling strategies, and production troubleshooting
• Deep expertise in MongoDB - replica set architecture, sharding, backup/restore, performance profiling, index optimization, and capacity planning
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes - cluster lifecycle management, pod scheduling, resource limits, networking (Ingress, Service Mesh), RBAC, and troubleshooting production issues
• Strong experience with storage architecture - object storage (S3, GCS), block storage (EBS, Persistent Disks), database storage optimization, lifecycle management, and cross-cloud storage strategies
• Strong experience with CI/CD using GitLab - pipeline design, multi-environment deployments, artifact management, GitLab Runner management, and integration with Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) - multi-cloud provisioning, state management, modular design
• Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or ELK stack)
• Experience with cost optimization at scale - RI planning, spot/preemptible instances, right-sizing, architectural cost decisions across AWS and GCP
• Security-first mindset - experience with compliance frameworks relevant to regulated industries
• Experience managing and mentoring a team of 2-5 engineers
• Strong communication skills - ability to work with data engineers, product engineers, and client-facing teams

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