Senior Cloud Technical Architect

Role Summary We are seeking a Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect with a minimum of 15years of experience to lead the design, transformation, and operationalization of enterprise-scale hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate must behands-on across both on-premises infrastructure and public cloud, with deep understanding of managed services, Day-2 operations, commercial governance, and client-facing solution leadership. Key Responsibilities ·       Lead end-to-end architecture for hybrid cloud environments spanning on-premises data centers, private cloud, and public cloud platforms. ·       Create high-level and low-level designs, reference architectures, migration roadmaps, operational runbooks, and transition plans. ·       Act as a hands-on architect for infrastructure, cloud landing zones, network connectivity, security controls,identity, backup, monitoring, and automation. ·       Assess current-state IT landscapes and define target-state hybrid cloud solutions aligned to business,technical, security, compliance, and cost objectives. ·       Drive cloud migration and modernization planning, including workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration waves, and risk mitigation. ·       Design and integrate managed services operating models, including ITIL-aligned processes, monitoring, incident/problem/change management, capacity management, patching, backup, DR, and service reporting. ·       Support Day-2 operations readiness by ensuring solutions are supportable, observable, resilient, cost-managed, and aligned to SLAs/OLAs. ·       Engage directly with client stakeholders, including CIO/CTO teams, enterprise architects, infrastructure leads, security teams, procurement, and business owners. ·       Contribute to proposals, solution costing, effort estimation, commercial models, RFP/RFI responses, statements of work, and governance reviews. ·       Collaborate with delivery, operations, security, application, network, and commercial teams to ensure successful solution implementation and handover. ·       Provide technical leadership, mentoring, design governance, and architecture review support across multiple projects or client engagements. Required Experience & Skills ·       Minimum 12 years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in infrastructure architecture, cloudarchitecture, and enterprise solution design. ·       Strong hands-on expertise inon-premise platforms, including compute, storage, virtualization, networking,backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and data center operations. ·       Proven experience designinghybrid cloud solutions using one or more public cloud platforms such asMicrosoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform. ·       Strong understanding of privatecloud, virtualization, container platforms, automation, infrastructure as code,and cloud-native operating models. ·       Deep knowledge of managedservices operations and Day-2 support models, including service transition,operations governance, SLA management, observability, incident response, andcontinuous improvement. ·       Ability to translate businessrequirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and commercially viablearchitecture solutions. ·       Experience with cloudconnectivity patterns such as VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, SD-WAN,routing, DNS, firewalling, and hybrid identity integration. ·       Strong understanding ofsecurity architecture, IAM, zero trust principles, encryption, vulnerabilitymanagement, compliance controls, and operational risk. ·       Commercial awareness withability to support solution pricing, cost optimization, financial governance,service scope definition, and risk/commercial trade-off discussions. ·       Excellent client-facingcommunication skills, with ability to present complex architecture topicsclearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. ·       Strong team player with provenability to work across pre-sales, delivery, operations, and customer teams. Preferred Certifications ·       Azure Solutions ArchitectExpert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or GoogleProfessional Cloud Architect. ·       TOGAF, ITIL Foundation /Managing Professional, VMware, Kubernetes, security, or networkingcertifications are desirable. Key Competencies ·       Hybrid cloud architecture andmodernization strategy ·       Managed services and Day-2operations design ·       Client advisory and stakeholdermanagement ·       Commercial solutioning,estimation, and cost optimization ·       Governance, risk management,and operational resilience ·       Collaboration, mentoring, andcross-functional leadership Success Measures ·       High-quality, secure, supportable, and commercially sound hybrid cloud architectures. ·       Smooth transition from solution design to implementation and managed services operations. ·       Strong client confidence through clear communication, technical credibility, and delivery ownership. ·       Reduced operational risk through robust Day-2 processes, monitoring, automation, and governance.