Job Description
Location: Hyderabad
Role: Cloud & DevOps Architect: Senior Leadership Role @Innominds
Years of Experience: 12-18 Yrs
Qualification: BE/B.TECH/ME/M.TECH/MCA/MSc (Computers)
Cloud & DevOps Architect: Senior Leadership Role @Innominds
Role Overview
We are seeking a senior Cloud & DevOps Architect who will act as an enterprise level architect, and trusted customer advisor, driving large-scale cloud modernization, platform engineering, and DevOps transformation initiatives.
This role blends technical consulting, customer engagement, and delivery leadership. The architect will shape strategy, influence executive stakeholders, lead complex architecture decisions, and ensure the successful execution of high-impact transformation programs across multi-cloud ecosystems.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on cloud architectural leader who can design, present, and operationalize enterprise-grade cloud platforms while guiding clients through digital transformation journeys.
Core Responsibilities & Technology Leadership
- Collaborate with Cloud & DevOps practice leadership to align architecture strategies, solution patterns, and delivery approaches with practice objectives.
- Establish architectural standards, reference architectures, and reusable frameworks for cloud modernization.
- Drive innovation in:
Cloud-native architectures
Platform engineering
DevSecOps
Infrastructure automation
AI-enabled DevOps and AIOps for intelligent monitoring, automated remediation, and operational insights.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption of relevant solutions within cloud architecture patterns and delivery frameworks.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects to elevate technical maturity.
Enterprise Architecture & Technical Excellence
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Ensure architecture designs align with cloud Well-Architected Framework principles including reliability, security, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
- Design enterprise cloud landing zones including identity architecture, network segmentation, security guardrails, governance policies, and subscription/account structures.
- Lead architecture decisions for:
Cloud migration & modernization, defining modernization strategies using industry-standard frameworks such as the 7R modeKubernetes/container platforms
CI/CD pipelines
Infrastructure-as-Code
API-driven architectures
Observability & reliability engineering
- Architect cloud platforms capable of supporting AI/ML workloads, including scalable compute, data pipelines, and model deployment infrastructure
- Architect platform engineering ecosystems that enable self-service developer productivity.
- Define DevSecOps frameworks including:
Policy-as-code
Supply chain security
Zero trust architecture
- Ensure alignment with compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, ISO, etc.).
- Lead performance optimization, reliability engineering, and cost governance (FinOps).
Customer Advisory & Executive Engagement
- Serve as a strategic advisor to key senior Customer Engineering stakeholders.
- Conduct discovery workshops and architecture assessments.
- Lead legacy application discovery and portfolio assessment to identify migration and modernization opportunities.
- Perform cloud readiness assessments evaluating technical debt, architecture constraints, and modernization feasibility.
- Analyze application dependencies, integrations, and data flows to support safe migration planning.Translate business goals into cloud transformation roadmaps.
- Guide organizations through cloud adoption using structured frameworks such as AWS and Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) covering governance, migration, operations, and security models.
- Present technical strategy and architecture solutions to executive and engineering audiences.
- Lead customer architecture reviews and transformation planning sessions.
Support RFP/RFI responses with architecture positioning.
- Influence buy-in for modernization initiatives through data-driven proposals.
Delivery Oversight & Transformation Governance
- Provide architectural oversight for large-scale cloud and DevOps delivery programs.
- Establish engineering quality gates and governance frameworks.
- Identify and mitigate risks across architecture, security, and delivery timelines.
- Ensure adoption of agile delivery, DevOps workflows, and SRE practices.
- Guide platform rollout, migration waves, and operational transition strategies, based on application dependencies, business criticality, and risk assessment
- Perform application dependency mapping across services, databases, and integrations.
- Lead incident retrospectives and architecture improvement initiatives.
Platform Engineering & DevOps
- Build enterprise-grade developer platforms enabling:
Automated environments
Golden pipelines
Self-service infrastructure
Standardized golden paths
Reusable infrastructure templates
- Design CI/CD ecosystems integrating:
GitOps
Test automation
Security scanning
- Implement advanced observability strategies using metrics, logs, traces, and AIOps-driven anomaly detection and automated incident resolution..
- Enable continuous reliability and automated remediation.
- Define reliability engineering practices including Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service Level Objectives (SLO), and error budgets.
Compliance & Reliability Architecture
- Embed DevSecOps practices across the SDLC.
Architect identity, secrets management, and network security frameworks.
Define resilience patterns, DR strategies, and high-availability architectures.
- Lead compliance architecture and audit readiness.
Thought Leadership
- Develop reusable accelerators, architecture blueprints, and frameworks.
- Contribute to pre-sales strategy and solution positioning.
- Lead internal training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
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Represent cloud architecture capabilities and solution expertise in customer forums and technical events.
Required Technical Expertise Cloud Platforms
- AWS / Azure / GCP architecture & services
- Multi-cloud governance and landing zones
- Hybrid cloud integration
- Serverless architectures
- Cloud cost governance and optimization practices including FinOps frameworks and cost monitoring strategies.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, including GPU compute, scalable storage, and model deployment environments
Containers & Platform Engineering
- Kubernetes ecosystem
- Service mesh
- Container orchestration & lifecycle management
DevOps Toolchain
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab)
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Cloud automation using platform APIs, scripting, and infrastructure orchestration frameworks
- Configuration management
Networking
- Cloud networking architecture including VPC/VNet design, private connectivity, hybrid networking, and network segmentation patterns.
Security & Compliance
- DevSecOps practices
- Policy-as-code Cloud security frameworks
- Cloud identity and access management architecture including IAM, RBAC, federated identity, and Zero Trust access models.
- Secure cloud architecture patterns including encryption, secrets management, key management, and cloud security posture management.
Reliability & Observability
- Monitoring & telemetry platforms
- Incident automation
- Performance engineering
Automation & Scripting
Customer Presentation & Consulting Capabilities
The architect must demonstrate:
- Executive-level architecture storytelling
- Ability to explain complex cloud architectures in business terms
- Whiteboarding & workshop facilitation
- Architecture review presentations
- Transformation roadmap articulation
- ROI/TCO discussions
- Technical proposal creation
Delivery & Leadership Capabilities
- Leading distributed architecture teams
- Governance frameworks
- Engineering excellence standards
- Risk management & escalation handling
- Agile program leadership
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related discipline
- 1218 years IT experience with deep cloud & DevOps exposure
- 5+ years in senior architectural leadership roles
- Proven experience leading enterprise modernization programs
Preferred Certifications ( 2 must have )
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD)
- DevOps or SRE certifications
- Cloud security certifications
What Success Looks Like
- Clients adopt scalable cloud-native platforms
- DevOps maturity significantly improves
- Transformation roadmaps are successfully executed
- Engineering velocity and reliability increase
- Cloud architecture innovation contributes to customer success and solution growth.
Why Innominds?
A note for those who want more than just a job
ISV-First DNA
Innominds was purpose-built for the ISV ecosystem. We speak the language of product engineering, SaaS velocity, and platform scale not generic IT services.
Global Reach, Startup Soul
With 2,500+ engineers across the US, India, and EMEA, we combine enterprise delivery muscle with the agility and ownership culture of a growth-stage company.
Cutting-Edge Work
From AI/ML and cloud-native platforms to embedded security and digital transformation ,you will work on whats next, not whats left.
Real Career Ownership
We believe in promoting from within. Your KPIs here translate into a growth trajectory Delivery Director, AVP, or beyond. You own your arc.
Customer Intimacy at Scale
You will have direct access to senior customer leadership not filtered through layers. Real relationships, real impact, real accountability.
Competitive Rewards
Market-leading compensation, performance bonuses.
If you believe delivery is an art and customer trust is currency, Innominds is your stage.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Solution Architect
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Innominds Software
Location(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills:
Devops
Terraform
Kubernetes
Modernization
Azure
Migration
Cloud Architecture
Cloud Migration
Iac
Cloud Architect
GCP
AWS
Cloud Native