Cloud Architect

Company Overview

300+ media companies as clients, $40+ billion in revenue processed, 25,000+ worldwide users.

Operative

JOB SUMMARY

Key Responsibilities

1. Strengthen the Posture of Existing Cloud Products

• Conduct architecture and design reviews for AWS and GCP workloads.
• Identify and remediate posture gaps across security, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Align implementations with AWS/GCP Well-Architected Frameworks, NIST, CIS, and other standards.
• Partner with Cloud Security, FinOps, and SRE teams to drive end-to-end governance and continuous improvement.

2. Enable New Initiatives

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design secure, scalable, and cost-efficient architectures for new workloads.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns, and IaC blueprints to accelerate development cycles.
• Conduct design reviews and approve architectures before launch, ensuring alignment with compliance and regulatory mandates.

3. Architecture Governance & Best Practices

• Define and enforce architecture standards across all cloud platforms and business units.
• Champion adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD integration, container security, and observability frameworks.
• Act as a bridge between Cloud Operations, Security, and Product Engineering, ensuring architecture decisions support both business and technical goals.

4. Team Management & Leadership Requirements

• Technical Leadership:

• Guide and mentor a team of cloud engineers working across AWS and GCP. Provide hands-on architectural direction, ensuring adherence to best practices in infrastructure design, automation, and security.

• Skill Development & Coaching:

• Identify skill gaps within the cloud engineering team and create structured development plans, including training on new cloud services, IaC, DevOps, DevSecOps, and FinOps practices.

• Performance Management:

• Set measurable objectives and KPIs aligned with organizational goals such as uptime, security posture improvement, cost savings, and deployment frequency.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and feedback sessions to drive accountability and growth.

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment:

• Foster strong collaboration between App Support, Engineering, SRE and Security teams to ensure architectural consistency and operational excellence.

• Operational Excellence:

• Ensure smooth execution of day-to-day cloud operations, incident response, and infrastructure improvements. Implement mechanisms to reduce toil through automation and proactive monitoring.

• Resource Planning & Allocation:

• Manage engineering bandwidth, prioritize initiatives based on business impact, and ensure effective utilization of resources across multiple projects and environments.

• Culture & Engagement:

• Build a culture of continuous learning, ownership, and innovation. Encourage engineers to contribute to architectural discussions, PoCs, and automation improvements.

• Process Governance:

• Drive standardization across the team through documentation, peer reviews, and architecture approval processes.
• Ensure alignment with compliance, security, and cost governance frameworks.

Expectations from the role

• Reduced Incidents & Risks:

  Improved cloud posture leading to fewer P1/P2 incidents and audit findings.

• Accelerated Delivery:

  Pre-validated design templates reduce rework and speed up product launches.

• Optimized Cloud Spend:

  Right-sizing, resource governance, and FinOps integration ensure sustainable cost savings.

• Compliance Confidence:

  Built-in adherence to ISO, SOC2, and regional regulatory frameworks.

• Future-Ready Architecture:

  Systems designed to scale and evolve with the organization's growth.

Qualification and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure design, or DevOps roles.
• Proven expertise in

  AWS and GCP

  services (compute, networking, security, storage, and monitoring).
• Strong understanding of

  cloud governance, FinOps principles, and security frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001)

  .
• Experience in

  IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)

  and

  container orchestration (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS)

  .
• Hands-on experience with

  DevOps,

  DevSecOps

  ,

  observability tools

  , and

  cost optimization strategies

  .
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and leadership teams.
• Certifications preferred:

  AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

  ,

  Google Professional Cloud Architect

  , or equivalent

Why join us

• Operative is a technology-oriented product organization that believes in empowering its people
• We use the latest tech stack and empower our engineers to learn, work and ideate on new technologies available in the market
• We provide flexi work schedules and remote working to encourage work life balance
• We are an equal opportunities employer and recruit based on the experience and skill set.
• We offer a competitive salary and benefits package

Please apply online and upload your CV.

Operative is a merit-first, equal opportunity employer; diverse applications are encouraged.

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