Platform / Cloud Architect
Skills
About This Role
Overview
We are seeking a
Platform / Cloud Architect
to design and govern the core cloud-agnostic platform foundations for TASMU Platform 2.0.
The role ensures
consistent deployment, security, connectivity, and operational standards
across multiple vendor-delivered capabilities.
The architect defines the target platform architecture across
Azure
and additional clouds, enabling standardized landing zones, Kubernetes runtime patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and shared platform services (identity, observability, logging, CI/CD, networking).
The role provides
technical leadership for platform modernization
, ensures design compliance through architecture reviews, and drives
platform reliability, scalability, and cost governance
from build through operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain
- TASMU 2.0 platform reference architecture
- (cloud-agnostic runtime, shared services, control plane).
- Design and govern
- landing zones, subscription/project structures, network hub/spoke, DNS, routing, and private connectivity patterns
- .
- Establish standardized
- Kubernetes architecture
- (AKS/GKE/other), cluster baseline, node pool strategy, GPU/TPU readiness, and autoscaling.
- Define
- IaC/GitOps standards
- (Terraform/Bicep/Helm, pipelines, drift control, environment promotion).
- Own
- platform-level security-by-design controls
- (identity integration, secrets/keys, WAF, segmentation, policy-as-code).
- Specify
- observability and operations foundations
- (OTel, logs/metrics/traces, alerting, ITSM integration, SLOs).
- Drive
- resiliency architecture
- (HA, backup/restore, DR strategy, RPO/RTO targets, runbooks and testing).
- Establish
- platform service catalog foundations
- and “golden paths” for onboarding smart solutions and vendors.
- Partner with
FinOps
- to implement cost governance (tagging, budgets, anomaly detection, chargeback/showback).
- Provide
- technical assurance
- for vendor platform deliverables and support production readiness reviews/go-live gates.
Skills & Abilities
- Deep expertise in
- cloud platform architecture
- (networking, compute, storage, security, and operations).
- Strong
- Kubernetes platform engineering skills
- (cluster design, security, autoscaling, ingress/egress, service mesh concepts).
- Ability to create
- pragmatic cloud-agnostic standards
- while leveraging managed services appropriately.
- Proven experience implementing
- IaC/GitOps and platform governance
- (policies, baselines, compliance).
- Strong
- troubleshooting mindset
- for cross-vendor, cross-environment platform issues and reliability improvements.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity
- ; Master’s degree highly preferred.
- **8+ years**
- in cloud/platform engineering or architecture roles; experience in government, telco, or critical infrastructure preferred.
- Hands-on delivery experience with
- Azure plus at least one other cloud (GCP/AWS)
- and hybrid connectivity patterns.
- Experience building
- secure landing zones, enterprise networks, and multi-environment delivery pipelines
- .
- Experience running
- production platforms with SRE/ITIL-aligned practices
- (incident/change/problem management).
- Relevant certifications preferred:
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Kubernetes CKA/CKS, TOGAF, Cloud Security
- .
Preferred Tools
- **IaC/GitOps:**
Terraform, Bicep, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, GitHub, Azure DevOps
- **Cloud & Kubernetes:**
- Azure, AKS, GKE, Container Registries, Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
- **Observability/Security:**
- OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace/Datadog, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel
Soft Skills
- Strong
- technical leadership
- and ability to set standards across vendors
- Clear
- communication of complex architectures
- to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- **Structured problem solving**
- and root-cause analysis discipline
- **Delivery focus:**
- balancing ideal architecture with time/cost constraints
- Collaboration and influence across
- security, operations, and delivery teams
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