Cloud Solution Architect (Urgent Search)

India has a large Cloud market estimated at $22Bn for year 2024 and growing at 17% CAGR with Cloud spends becoming an increasingly larger % of our customer’s IT spends. Customers have seen huge gains both on Performance and well as Cost-optimization by actively managing their Cloud strategy and adopting a Multi and Hybrid cloud approach. Airtel Cloud was launched to address the gap in the current market. Airtel’s core strengths on Network & Security are tightly integrated a part of our cloud offering. We have also leveraged Airtel’s brand trust, enterprise relationships, and partner ecosystem to strengthen the positioning and adoption of Airtel Cloud. Airtel cloud is a Telco-grade Cloud -“Built in India, for India”. It is a fully sovereign & regulated offering, built with best technology integrations promising maximized performance. It is built to address India’s regulatory, performance, and cost-efficiency needs. Tailored to handle 140 crore transactions per minute for Airtel’s own use in India, this cloud platform is now being extended to meet the ever-evolving needs of businesses in India. Hosted on next-gen sustainable data centers, with Gen-AI based provisioning, and managed by 300 certified cloud experts, the highly secure and reliable. Airtel cloud will offer the complete stack to our customers- IaaS, PaaS offerings, Observability, a Cloud management platform for customers to manage their Hybrid & multi-cloud environments; and Cloud security posture management across their clouds. This will be complemented with Advisory, Cloud analyzer, Data migration & Professional services from Airtel. With this product launch, we intent to become a part of our customer’s cloud journey and become a one stop shop for our customers across Connectivity, Network, Security, CPaaS, IOT & Cloud. We are looking for a high performing team of motivated individuals who will help us forge our growth story.

Key Responsibilities -

• Understand client business goals, current and future cloud architecture, and migration paths for Airtel cloud solutions
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions using enterprise architecture principles
• Lead and participate in RFP / bid processes, preparing technical solutions, costing, and proposals
• Present solutions to C-level executives and technical teams; deliver POCs and integration architectures
• Provide detailed architecture / design (HLD), requirement gathering, and creation of bill of materials / pricing
• Demonstrate expertise in cloud architecture (multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, DevOps, migration, security, elasticity, etc.)
• Collaborate with business, cloud architecture, product, engineering, DevOps, and security teams to deliver robust customer solutions
• Mentor teammates on cloud standards, frameworks, and drive cloud adoption
• Develop cloud reference architectures and management systems

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