Senior Proficient, Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

Senior Proficient, Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

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Role Purpose
This role is responsible for leading the design and delivery of innovative, scalable, and secure cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions. As a senior architect, the position plays a critical role in shaping the organization's technology landscape through advanced architectural frameworks that drive performance, resilience, and cost efficiency. The architect provides strategic and technical leadership across infrastructure transformation programs — with a strong focus on cloud adoption, hybrid integration, and core platform optimization — to enhance operational agility, ensure security compliance, and support future‑ready digital capabilities.

Position Information

• Unit:
  Digital & Applications
• Division:
  Digital & Innovation
• Grade: P4
• Minimum role requirements

Qualification

• Bachelor in relevant field

Experience

• 8 years of experience

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the design and planning of enterprise infrastructure solutions across multi‑cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), on‑premises, and hybrid environments, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Drive cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, including the evaluation and migration of applications, aligning with business scalability, performance, and resilience objectives.
• Architect and manage Kubernetes and VMware clusters across cloud and on‑prem environments, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and automated lifecycle management.
• Develop and validate High‑Level and Low‑Level Designs (HLD/LLD) for cloud‑native and on‑prem infrastructure components, incorporating modularity, integration, and compliance.
• Lead the preparation of Scope of Work (SOW) documents for infrastructure programs and manage end‑to‑end tendering and evaluation processes with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with finance and leadership teams to support CAPEX and OPEX planning, ensuring infrastructure investments are cost‑effective, strategically aligned, and well‑justified.
• Provide lifecycle management of enterprise software licenses (e.g., IBM, Oracle, Microsoft), ensuring compliance, renewal planning, and optimization of license utilization and cost.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors, system integrators, and stakeholders, managing performance, SLAs, contracts, and issue resolution to ensure successful project execution.
• Design and implement enterprise‑grade disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, including backup, replication, failover, and DR testing frameworks.
• Lead and participate in infrastructure operations management, including budgeting, resource planning, compliance monitoring, and risk management to ensure seamless operations.
• Define and enforce monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks across hybrid infrastructure landscapes to support proactive performance and incident management.
• Champion cost optimization across public cloud and on‑prem resources, using Fin Ops principles, reserved capacity planning, and workload right‑sizing techniques.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies (e.g., container platforms, cloud PaaS, SDN, edge computing) to enhance infrastructure capabilities and agility.
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of infrastructure security frameworks, including cloud‑native security baselines, IAM policies, encryption, and compliance with data residency and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the translation of business and technical requirements into infrastructure architecture and delivery plans, ensuring strategic alignment and solution viability.
• Design and execute complex cloud migration strategies, minimizing service disruptions and ensuring smooth transitions from legacy to cloud‑native platforms.
• Coordinate the technical evaluation and optimization of cloud vendor offerings, ensuring commercial and technical alignment with enterprise standards.
• Establish and track infrastructure performance metrics, KPIs, and SLAs, proactively identifying service risks, capacity bottlenecks, and improvement areas.
• Drive knowledge‑sharing and mentoring initiatives across the team to build internal capability and support cross‑functional architectural understanding.

Key Competencies

• Cost Optimization
• Telecommunications environment and technology
• Networking
• Planning and Organizing
• Cloud Strategy Management
• Core Network Knowledge

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Information Technology
Industries Telecommunications