Hyperscalers Architect

SWATX

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Architecture & Design
• Develop High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level (LLD) design artifacts and reference architectures for OCI and GCP services.
• Perform capacity planning, sizing exercises, and cost/ROI analyses to guide strategic cloud initiatives.
2. Infrastructure as Code & Automation
• Architect and maintain Terraform modules, Deployment Manager templates, and Ansible/PowerShell scripts for provisioning compute, networking, storage, and VMware SDDCs (OCVS).
• Build CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI) for image creation, configuration drift remediation, and automated deployments.
3. Performance, Cost & Capacity Optimization
• Design monitoring solutions (OCI Monitoring & Logging, GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging) with dashboards and alerts for proactive scaling, performance tuning, and cost management.
• Conduct regular right-sizing reviews and recommend committed-use or sustained-use discounts.
4. Security & Compliance
• Define and enforce security guardrails, micro segmentation strategies (NSG, Security Lists, NSX-T), and policy-as-code (OPA, Config Rules, Sentinel).
• Integrate enterprise IAM (OCI IAM, GCP IAM) and KMS/Cloud KMS for data encryption and access control.
5. Governance & Standards
• Establish cloud governance frameworks, naming conventions, and change-control processes.
• Lead architecture review boards and maintain an enterprise reference-architecture library.
6. Cross-Functional Leadership & Enablement
• Facilitate workshops and design reviews with application, networking, security, and operations teams to validate interoperability and compliance.
• Mentor engineers, peer-review HLD/LLD artifacts, and author runbooks and best-practice guides for ongoing operations.
7. Migration & Modernization.
• Plan and execute lift-and-shift and modernization efforts, including VMware/OCVS migrations and cloud-native transformations, ensuring minimal downtime and reliable rollback strategies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Competency Area

Details

OCI Architecture

VCN design, DRG/VCN peering, Bastion, NSG vs. Security Lists, OCI FSDR, OCVS SDDC design

GCP Architecture

VPC design, Shared VPC, Cloud VPN/Interconnect, Cloud Router, IAM roles/folders, GKE networking

Cross-Cloud Networking

FastConnect, Cloud VPN, VPN tunnels, transit gateway equivalents

Migration & Modernization

Lift-and-shift (HCX, VMware/OCVS cloud), refactoring to cloud-native services, database migrations (Autonomous DB Cloud SQL)

IaC & Automation

Terraform (OCI & GCP providers), Deployment Manager, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, Cloud Build, Jenkins/GitLab CI

Monitoring & Optimization

OCI Monitoring/Logging, GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging, vROps dashboards, cost analysis tools

Security & Compliance

OCI IAM/Compartments, GCP IAM, KMS/Cloud KMS, micro segmentation (NSX-T), policy-as-code

Advisory & Leadership

Leading architecture reviews, client-facing workshops, stakeholder briefings, mentoring and knowledge transfer