We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Cloud Architect with expertise in the banking domain to join our client's technology team. The role involves building a cutting-edge, cloud-native mobile banking platform. As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will lead the design and implementation of foundational cloud infrastructure, ensuring that the platform is scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient on AWS or Azure. You will follow the Well-Architected Framework principles and best practices, own cloud architecture patterns, define Kubernetes-based deployment strategies, and guide platform-level decisions related to observability, security, and scalability.
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Core Responsibilities:
- Own and govern the cloud-native platform architecture for mobile banking applications on AWS or Azure.
- Set standards for cloud cost optimization, tenancy isolation, performance, and secrets management.
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters, including networking, storage, security, and scaling mechanisms for microservices.
- Drive the adoption and maturity of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform or equivalent, ensuring all infrastructure is version-controlled and automated.
- Architect and implement solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance across the cloud infrastructure.
- Establish platform-wide observability patterns, tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Datadog, Dynatrace), and practices to ensure real-time visibility into platform health, performance, and user experience.
- Collaborate with security teams to embed security best practices into infrastructure design and deployment, ensuring regulatory compliance.
Required Experience:
- 12+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with significant hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable solutions on AWS or Azure.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) ecosystem, including cluster provisioning, service mesh (e.g., Istio), and container security.
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code, networking, cloud security, and monitoring tools.
- Proven experience with observability tools and practices (logging, metrics, tracing) in a distributed systems environment.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security groups, VPCs, and identity and access management (IAM).
- Platform-building mindset, focusing on enabling developer productivity through well-defined infrastructure.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Cloud certification (AWS Solutions Architect Pro / Azure Expert) strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting banking-grade compliance (PCI-DSS, etc.) is a plus.
