Associate Principal - Architecture

Job Description

Location- Chennai

Preferred Qualification

Enterprise Platform Architecture Strategy

10 to 15 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineering or Enterprise Architecture

Proven experience defining enterprisewide platform strategies supporting multiple products engineering teams and business domains

Demonstrated success leading largescale cloud transformation modernization and platform engineering programs across distributed global organizations

Cloud MultiCloud Architecture

oDeep expertise designing enterprisescale architectures on Google Cloud Platform

oExtensive knowledge of

oGKE and Kubernetes ecosystems

oShared VPC architectures

oCloud Networking

oIAM and Security Architecture

oService Mesh implementations

oDisaster Recovery and High Availability

oCloud Governance and FinOps

oStrong working knowledge of Azure and AWS architectures migration patterns and multicloud governance

oExperience defining enterprise cloud standards reference architectures and landing zone strategies

Kubernetes Modern Platform Engineering

oExpertlevel knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and enterprise platform design

oExperience establishing standardized platform capabilities for

oContainer orchestration

oService networking

oMulticluster management

oIngress and Gateway API architectures

oSecrets management

oPlatform selfservice capabilities

Infrastructure as Code Automation Strategy

oExpert knowledge of Terraform architecture enterprise module strategies policy enforcement and governance

oExperience implementing Infrastructure as Code operating models at organizational scale

oStrong expertise in GitOps architecture and platform automation frameworks

oEstablishes standards that ensure platform consistency auditability and operational reliability

Enterprise CICD Software Delivery Architecture

oDeep expertise in software delivery architecture and DevSecOps implementation

oExperience designing enterprise CICD ecosystems incorporating

oJenkins

oGitHub Actions

oArtifact repositories

oSecurity scanning

oRelease orchestration

oDeployment automation

oDefines organizationwide standards for software supply chain security and deployment governance

oExperience implementing progressive delivery patterns including canary bluegreen feature flags and automated rollback frameworks

Enterprise Observability Reliability Engineering

oExpert understanding of enterprise observability strategies across logs metrics traces events and user experience monitoring

oExperience establishing

oSLOSLI frameworks

oReliability governance models

oService health standards

oEnterprise monitoring architecture

oDeep knowledge of

oNew Relic

oSplunk

oOpenTelemetry

oPrometheus

oGrafana

oProven success driving measurable improvements in availability incident reduction recovery time and operational efficiency

Security Governance Compliance

oExtensive experience embedding security architecture into DevOps and cloud platforms

oExpertise in

oSecrets management

oIdentity architecture

oZero Trust principles

oVulnerability management

oSupply chain security

oCompliance automation

Organizational Leadership Influence

Proven ability to influence senior leaders across Engineering Infrastructure Security Architecture and Product organizations

Demonstrated experience building and scaling DevOps and Platform Engineering functions in a GCCGTC environment

Strong executivelevel communication skills with the ability to present architecture strategies investment roadmaps risks and outcomes to senior leadership

Experience mentoring architects technical leads and engineering managers

Major Tasks Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities

Creates and maintains targetstate architecture blueprints standards reference patterns and technology roadmaps

Establishes enterprisewide architecture standards for cloud infrastructure Kubernetes platforms networking delivery pipelines monitoring and automation

Leads evaluation selection and governance of cloud platform observability security and delivery tooling

Partners with Enterprise Architecture to ensure platform capabilities align with broader organizational technology strategy

Defines platform operating models that enable selfservice engineering while maintaining governance security and compliance

Leads architecture reviews and approves major platform design decisions ensuring consistency across global engineering teams

Establishes reliability engineering practices availability targets operational metrics and incident management standards

Oversees disaster recovery business continuity resiliency testing and operational readiness strategies

Mentors platform engineers technical leads architects and engineering teams while building longterm ar