Position - Cloud Architect

Role Purpose: Provide hands-on cloud architecture expertise by translating organizational cloud, security, infrastructure, and data requirements into practical standards, patterns, templates, and governance artefacts, while guiding and assuring cloud solutions delivered by product teams and vendors.

Key Responsibilities:

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Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, data residency, infrastructure, and operational policies into clear cloud architecture standards and guidelines.

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Develop and maintain cloud reference architectures, approved patterns, design templates, review checklists, quality-gate criteria, and architecture decision records.

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Define standards for cloud landing zones, networking, identity and access management, security, containers, hosting, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure automation.

Minimum Profile:

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8+ years of infrastructure and cloud experience, including cloud architecture responsibilities.

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Strong hands-on experience developing cloud standards, reference architectures, patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.

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Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, identity, containers, resilience, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure as code.

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Experience reviewing and assuring enterprise-scale cloud solutions.

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Relevant professional cloud architecture certification is preferred.

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Government, regulated-sector, or large-enterprise experience is preferred.