Principal Engineer - Cloud Architect

Overview

Own end-to-end cloud architecture and provide cross-team technical leadership for large-scale cloud products, from requirements and solution design through development, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end cloud architecture, from requirements and solution design through development, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Define architecture principles, technology standards, and reusable patterns for scalable, secure, highly available, maintainable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Resolve complex performance, scalability, security, and integration challenges.
• Mentor engineers across development teams.
• Partner closely with Marketing, Systems, and other business and technical stakeholders.
• Develop proof-of-concepts.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and assess architectural trade-offs across cost, performance, security, maintainability, and time-to-market.
• Drive engineering excellence across Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, security architecture, cost estimation, risk management and mitigation, privacy, quality, and regulatory compliance.
• Contribute to technical training, hiring, research, and continuous learning.

What you'll need

• 14+ years of overall software-development experience, including 8+ years of cloud-architecture experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and operating large-scale cloud products in production.
• BS-level technical degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET/.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC/Core, Web/REST APIs, microservices, and Windows Services.
• Experience in multiple programming languages.
• Experience architecting highly available, large-scale enterprise applications across Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and exposure to AWS and Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of API Management, event-driven architecture, messaging, asynchronous processing, Kubernetes, Docker, service discovery, secrets management, serverless services, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
• Experience with modern application technologies including React.js/Angular/Vue.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, Entity Framework, Git, unit testing, and PowerShell.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and cloud operations, including automated CI/CD, environment provisioning, configuration management, deployment strategies, logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and operational support.
• Strong architecture, analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience evaluating technical trade-offs and working in Agile environments.
• An architectural certification with one or more Public Cloud providers (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Good understanding of HL7 and DICOM protocols.
• Experience or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and implement data analytics tools.
• Demonstrated passion for software development and continuous technical learning, such as active open-source contribution, research activities, proof-of-concepts, or exploration of emerging technologies.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, India.
• Work flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite.
• Travel percentage: 10%.