Cloud Architect

# Cloud Architect
> Weekday AI · Pune, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-27
**Salary:** INR 3,500,000–4,500,000
**Workplace:** on_site
**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform
## Description
**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients**
**Salary range: Rs 3500000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 35 - 45 LPA)**
Min Experience: 8+ years

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced **Cloud Architect** to design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have **8–13 years of experience** in cloud engineering, infrastructure architecture, and DevOps practices, with strong expertise in **Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud architecture design**. You will play a key role in defining cloud strategies, modernizing infrastructure, and enabling engineering teams to deliver applications efficiently through automation and best practices.

As a Cloud Architect, you will collaborate with software engineering, security, infrastructure, and operations teams to build resilient cloud platforms that support business growth while ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud architectures for enterprise applications.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using **Terraform** to automate provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Build, optimize, and maintain **CI/CD pipelines** to enable seamless application deployment and infrastructure automation.
• Architect cloud-native solutions following industry best practices for availability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend modernization strategies to improve performance and operational efficiency.
• Define cloud governance, security standards, networking architecture, and identity management frameworks.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate infrastructure automation into software delivery workflows.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform reliability and proactive issue resolution.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and implement cost-management strategies.
• Drive automation initiatives to minimize manual processes and improve deployment consistency.
• Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Stay updated with emerging cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and infrastructure trends.

### Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• **8–13 years** of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or cloud architecture.
• Strong expertise in **Terraform** for infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Extensive experience designing and managing **CI/CD pipelines** using modern DevOps tools.
• Deep understanding of cloud **architectures**, including highly available, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts, security best practices, IAM, load balancing, DNS, and virtual networking.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in scripting using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and infrastructure performance optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

### Preferred Skills

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• Familiarity with GitOps methodologies and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Knowledge of cloud security, compliance frameworks, and governance policies.
• Experience implementing multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures.
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are highly desirable.
• Exposure to serverless architectures, event-driven systems, and cloud cost optimization tools.

## Apply
[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/2B9A1B7A55/apply)
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