About the job

OverviewWe are seeking a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (AWS / Azure) to drive enterprise cloud adoption, platform engineering, and project incubation. This role requires a grounded, execution-oriented professional who can seamlessly bridge the gap between strategic business goals and technical reality.Operating as a trusted partner, you will spend 2 to 3 days per week embedded on-site with our enterprise clients. In this role, you will not just propose architectures; you will actively build, prototype, and physically incubate them.By combining practical, hands-on engineering with out-of-the-box thinking, you will play a critical role in identifying the right modern toolsets and fast-tracking the AI Cloud adoption journey for our customers.Key Responsibilities• On-Site Migration & Platform Planning: Spend 2–3 days per week on-site with clients mapping legacy workloads, architecting secure enterprise landing zones, and designing comprehensive migration strategies.• Hands-on Prototyping & Automation: Actively build, configure, and automate infrastructure components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to incubate projects, moving them from architectural diagrams to live, provisioned environments.• Cloud Modernization: Lead modernization initiatives, designing fully serverless or containerized (EKS/AKS) architectures, and implementing automated cost-optimization strategies.• AI Toolset Evaluation: Actively evaluate and identify modern, emerging AI-driven tools that can optimize platform management, accelerate migration discovery, or automate repetitive infrastructure tasks.• Mentorship & Enablement: Serve as a trusted advisor, creating comprehensive documentation and providing detailed guidance to help upskill and enable client engineering teams.Technical Skill ProfileCloud & Platform Engineering (Core Focus)• Enterprise Cloud Architecture: Deep, certified expertise in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.• Platform & Landing Zones: Strong, demonstrable experience designing secure enterprise landing zones using Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) or similar multi-account automation frameworks.• Migration Strategies: Extensive track record planning and executing enterprise migrations for legacy systems (including on-prem to cloud and Citrix-to-cloud transitions).• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced capabilities with HashiCorp Terraform and AWS CloudFormation/Azure Resource Manager to automate complex cloud environments from scratch.• Networking: Proficient in cloud-native networking solutions, including multicast, VPCs, subnets, routing, and security group design.Modernization & DevOps• Containerization & Serverless: Hands-on experience designing and building solutions with container orchestrators (e.g., EKS, AKS) and fully serverless architectures.• Automation & Scripting: Strong capability in scripting (Python, Bash, or Go) to build custom automation, integrate cloud APIs, and manage infrastructure dynamically.• Disaster Recovery (DR): Experience designing and implementing robust DR environments to ensure enterprise business continuity.Cultural Fit Profile (The “Ideal” Persona)• Humble Authority: Mature, reliable, and technically strong.• Customer Empathy: A natural ability to build trust on-site with enterprise clients, understanding their internal politics, legacy constraints, and technical goals.• Continuous Learner: Possesses a genuine curiosity for emerging platform technologies and AI-based infrastructure operations, with a proven ability to quickly learn and adapt.• Risk-Aware & Autonomous: Has a strong project delivery record, is comfortable navigating ambiguous environments, and can proactively identify platform and security risks before they become issues.