Senior Industry Principal
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About this role
The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect – Hybrid Cloud Platforms is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the end‑to‑end infrastructure architecture supporting a modern hybrid cloud ecosystem. This includes on‑premises data centers, private cloud platforms, public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), edge environments, and the automation, security, and operational frameworks that bind them together.
The architect acts as the enterprise authority on hybrid cloud strategy, platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, Zero Trust security architecture, and cross‑cloud governance—ensuring that infrastructure platforms are scalable, secure, cost‑efficient, resilient, and automation‑driven.
Responsibilities
- 1. Hybrid Cloud Architecture & Strategy
- Define the target state hybrid cloud architecture spanning data centers, private cloud, virtualized platforms, Kubernetes, and public cloud.
- Develop enterprise blueprints, reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards.
- Evaluate and select hybrid cloud technologies (VMware, Anthos, Azure Arc, AWS Outposts, OpenShift, Nutanix, etc.).
- Ensure designs support portability, vendor‑agnostic adoption, and multi‑cloud governance.
- Partner with CTO, CISO, Cloud Platform, and Network teams to align strategy to business goals.
- 2. Platform Engineering & Automation Frameworks
- Define architecture for platform engineering capabilities: automation, pipelines, IaC, GitOps, policy‑as‑code.
- Deliver reusable IaC modules (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible) for consistent deployment across clouds.
- Establish automated guardrails for configuration drift, compliance, and security baselines.
- Drive the adoption of self‑service infrastructure platforms and developer enablement portals.
- 3. Infrastructure Modernization & Cloud Adoption
- Lead modernization of legacy workloads (VM-based, monoliths) to cloud‑native platforms (containers, serverless).
- Architect migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor) with dependency mapping, risk