Cloud Technical Lead

Job highlights

• 5-6 years in cloud architecture with AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications and multi-cloud experience
• Design and deliver secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions, lead technical teams, manage project delivery, and support presales activities

Work with client and internal teams to design and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions.

Lead technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and quality assurance from concept through implementation.

Manage team of technical resources and overlook project delivery.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Connect with customers to understand the current environment, requirements, constraints, dependencies, and integration interfaces.
• Pre sales support to sales team in understanding customer requirements and preparing scope of work.
• Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Create proofs of concept where needed to validate designs, reduce technical risk, and improve estimate accuracy.
• Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates, including cloud pricing calculations and resource or skill requirements.
• Communicate with Solution Architects from AWS, Azure, GCP or other cloud OEM as and when needed based on customer projects.
• Break solution designs into clear work packages with prerequisites, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
• Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet security and compliance requirements to meet the cloud standards
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud, on-premises, monolithic, and microservices-based environments.
• Lead technical and DevOps teams; delegate tasks, resolve technical issues, and act as the quality gate for deliverables.
• Support internal initiatives and represent the company at relevant industry events.

Professional and Technical Skills

• 5-6 years of relevant infrastructure, cloud architecture, or technical consulting experience, with multiple completed projects and valid technical certifications
• Successful delivery experience as a Cloud Architect / Pre sales on greenfield and migration projects.
• Hands-on architecture experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform; multi-cloud experience is an advantage.
• Strong technical consulting skills, including workshop facilitation, current-state assessment, requirements analysis, and practical client recommendations.
• Ability to turn complex environments into clear cloud architecture designs, implementation plans, work packages, and estimates.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience guiding multidisciplinary technical teams and making architecture decisions.
• Structured approach to priorities, deadlines, dependencies, risks, budget, and quality.
• Working knowledge of security, networking, identity, compute, storage, backup, resilience, monitoring, and cloud cost optimisation.
• Ability to produce architecture designs, migration concepts and plans, cost and effort estimates, pricing calculators, Architecture Decision Records, improvement and technical-debt backlogs, client requirements and constraints