Cloud Architect-AWS/GCP

Overview

Serve as a technical leadership link between Kyndryl and clients, guiding stakeholders and defining, designing, governing, and delivering AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, DevOps, security, and compliance solutions from project start through implementation.

What you'll do

• Provide architectural guidance and governance for AWS environments.
• Design and review AWS solutions covering networking, security, compute, storage, and container platforms.
• Support hybrid and multi-cloud architectures spanning GCP and AWS.
• Define AWS operational and security standards aligned with enterprise requirements.
• Define and implement enterprise-scale GCP cloud architecture, landing zones, governance, and security frameworks.
• Design highly available, scalable, and cost-optimised cloud solutions aligned to business and application requirements.
• Establish cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Lead cloud transformation, modernization, and migration initiatives to GCP.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technology assessments, and workload placement recommendations.
• Architect and govern container platforms including Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon EKS, and AWS EKS Anywhere.
• Define cluster architecture, networking, security, observability, scalability, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Establish Kubernetes platform standards, security guardrails, and operational models.
• Guide engineering teams on containerisation, microservices, and cloud-native adoption.
• Define and implement enterprise DevOps and GitOps strategies.
• Architect CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, and related tools.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and platform automation.
• Drive DevSecOps adoption, policy-as-code, security automation, and compliance enforcement.
• Enable automated deployment, monitoring, remediation, and operational excellence practices.
• Design cloud security architecture, IAM models, network security controls, and compliance frameworks.
• Establish governance using AWS Config, Audit Manager, GCP Security Command Center, and policy controls.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.
• Review and approve cloud solution designs from a security and governance perspective.

What you'll need

• AWS Administration, AWS Architecture, Amazon EKS, and EKS Anywhere.
• GCP, GKE, Cloud Architecture, Terraform, and Cloud Security.
• Kubernetes and container platforms.
• DevOps, GitOps, and DevSecOps.
• Terraform, Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• CI/CD tools including Cloud Build, CodePipeline, and GitHub Actions.
• Cloud Networking, IAM, Security and Compliance.
• SRE and Observability Practices.

Nice to have

• Experience leading DevSecOps/SRE projects, setting up GitOps workflows, and designing robust CI/CD pipelines integrating tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo, and ELK.
• Deep expertise in delivering immutable infrastructure-as-code and automating platform deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation, Anthos Config Management, and GCVE.
• A track record of leading technical workshops with enterprise clients to architect advanced AWS solutions and design migration strategies from data centers to the cloud.
• Proven ability to perform periodic architecture reviews to enhance application performance, drive cost optimization, and thoroughly document technical frameworks.
• Collaborative skills in building utility tools and scripts, such as Chef cookbooks, that enable engineering teams to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification.
• Terraform Associate certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification.
• Cloud Developer / DevOps Engineer experience with Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• The role may provide an opportunity to travel.