Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities
 

• Cloud & Platform Architecture
• Design AWS-based cloud and hybrid architectures (AWS + On-Prem / OpenShift).
• Define reference architectures for microservices, legacy modernization, and event-driven systems.
• Architect multi-account AWS strategy (Landing Zone, Control Tower, Organizations).
• Lead application modernization including refactoring IBM WebSphere workloads to containerized platforms.
• Define architecture standards for compute, storage, networking, and security.

SRE & Reliability Engineering
 

• Embed SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets) into platform and application design.
• Architect for high availability, fault tolerance, auto-healing, and resilience.
• Lead capacity planning, performance engineering, and chaos testing strategies.
• Drive reduction in MTTR, alert fatigue, and operational toil.
• Participate in and guide incident management, RCA, and postmortems.

Observability & Monitoring Architecture
 

• Design and standardize observability frameworks across logs, metrics, traces, and events.

Hands-on experience with:
 

• Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
• OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation and pipelines
• Define alerting strategies aligned with business KPIs and SLOs.
• Enable distributed tracing across microservices and legacy middleware (WebSphere).
• Establish observability as a platform capability, not tool-centric.