Senior Proficient, Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

Role Purpose

This role is responsible for leading the design and delivery of innovative, scalable, and secure cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions. As a senior architect, the position plays a critical role in shaping the organization's technology landscape through advanced architectural frameworks that drive performance, resilience, and cost efficiency. The architect provides strategic and technical leadership across infrastructure transformation programs — with a strong focus on cloud adoption, hybrid integration, and core platform optimization — to enhance operational agility, ensure security compliance, and support future-ready digital capabilities.

Position Information

• Unit: Technology and Infrastructure
• Division: Infrastructure Planning & Design
• Grade: P4
• Minimum role requirements:
  
  

Qualification: Bachelor in relevant field

• Experience: 8 years of experience
  
  

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the design and planning of enterprise infrastructure solutions across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-premises, and hybrid environments, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Drive cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, including the evaluation and migration of applications, aligning with business scalability, performance, and resilience objectives.
• Architect and manage Kubernetes and VMware clusters across cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and automated lifecycle management.
• Develop and validate High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLD/LLD) for cloud-native and on-prem infrastructure components, incorporating modularity, integration, and compliance.
• Lead the preparation of Scope of Work (SOW) documents for infrastructure programs and manage end-to-end tendering and evaluation processes with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with finance and leadership teams to support CAPEX and OPEX planning, ensuring infrastructure investments are cost-effective, strategically aligned, and well-justified.
• Provide lifecycle management of enterprise software licenses (e.g., IBM, Oracle, Microsoft), ensuring compliance, renewal planning, and optimization of license utilization and cost.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors, system integrators, and stakeholders, managing performance, SLAs, contracts, and issue resolution to ensure successful project execution.
• Design and implement enterprise-grade disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, including backup, replication, failover, and DR testing frameworks.
• Lead and participate in infrastructure operations management, including budgeting, resource planning, compliance monitoring, and risk management to ensure seamless operations.
• Define and enforce monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks across hybrid infrastructure landscapes to support proactive performance and incident management.
• Champion cost optimization across public cloud and on-prem resources, using FinOps principles, reserved capacity planning, and workload right-sizing techniques.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies (e.g., container platforms, cloud PaaS, SDN, edge computing) to enhance infrastructure capabilities and agility.
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of infrastructure security frameworks, including cloud-native security baselines, IAM policies, encryption, and compliance with data residency and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the translation of business and technical requirements into infrastructure architecture and delivery plans, ensuring strategic alignment and solution viability.
• Design and execute complex cloud migration strategies, minimizing service disruptions and ensuring smooth transitions from legacy to cloud-native platforms.
• Coordinate the technical evaluation and optimization of cloud vendor offerings, ensuring commercial and technical alignment with enterprise standards.
• Establish and track infrastructure performance metrics, KPIs, and SLAs, proactively identifying service risks, capacity bottlenecks, and improvement areas.
• Drive knowledge-sharing and mentoring initiatives across the team to build internal capability and support cross-functional architectural understanding.
  
  

Key Competencies

Competency Type

Competency Name

Cross functional

Cost Optimization

Cross functional

Telecommunications environment and technology

Professional

Networking

Professional

Planning and Organizing

Technical

Cloud Strategy Management

Technical

Core Network Knowledge