Cloud Platform Architect (68020)
Core
Lead the design, build, and operational excellence of the organization's cloud platform across private and public cloud environments, driving transformation to automated, self-service infrastructure.
Role type
Senior Cloud Platform Architect (Platform Engineering)
Builds
End-to-end IaC-based provisioning, configuration management, patch orchestration, and cloud governance frameworks for multi-cloud environments.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi), Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware), Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipeline engineering, Policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel, Azure Policy), FinOps practices, Cloud governance, Infrastructure lifecycle automation.
Preferred skills
GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux), Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), Internal developer platforms, Platform engineering product management.
Technologies
Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Bicep, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, OPA/Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, AWS Config Rules, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, VPC/VNet, Load Balancers, DNS, CDN.
Responsibilities
Architect and implement IaC-based cloud provisioning; Design and automate end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle management; Build and maintain cloud governance guardrails using policy-as-code; Implement FinOps practices including automated rightsizing and cost allocation; Lead CI/CD pipeline engineering for infrastructure deployments; Design self-service infrastructure portals; Mentor and coach Cloud Platform Engineers; Collaborate with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability and compliance; Produce architectural decision records and platform documentation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities