Job Title: Cloud Solutions Architect
Location: Vizag
Experience Level: 15+ Years
Job Type: Full-Time
Join our GDBT Team in Vizag
EISAI Global Digital Business Transformation (GDBT) centre in Vizag is our first truly global capability hub providing high quality IT capability services across the globe for various EISAI regions. The centre leverages internal critical technical competencies to engineer, build, secure, and operate consolidated cost optimized global infrastructure platforms supporting our human health care (hhc) mission.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Solutions Architect to lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, architect cloud-native solutions, and support the growth of our cloud modernization journey.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement secure, scalable and robust cloud infrastructure and platform services on AWS and Azure, adhering to Cloud and industry best practices
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for the Cloud ecosystem using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM, Chef and Ansible
Establishes Architecture technical design, engineering, and documentation standards as a reference for all new systems implementations and workload migrations
Hands-on skills with Cloud computing, containers/orchestration, auto scaling, CI/CD and pipeline optimization
Implement observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure system reliability and performance
Design and blueprint AWS multi-account environments leveraging Landing Zones, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Organizations to establish a secure, compliant, and scalable foundation.
Define and implement OU hierarchy, account vending, and governance models aligned with Eisai’s enterprise cloud strategy and regulated (GxP) operating environment.
Develop architectural blueprints and technical standards for reusable patterns, automation pipelines, and deployment models across AWS and Azure.
Lead architecture reviews and design sessions to ensure consistency, adherence to best practices, and compliance with Eisai’s cloud governance framework.
Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed proactive guardrails, centralized logging (CloudTrail, Config), and monitoring baselines into the Landing Zone design.
Enforce security best practices, covering IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, and compliance with standards such as GxP, CIS, NIST, HIPAA, and ISO
Collaborate with stakeholders across R&D, clinical, regulatory, and manufacturing to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions
Drive cost and performance optimization across various Cloud environments, ensuring efficient use of resources
Required Qualifications
10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5 years in cloud architecture
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and above
Deep understanding of AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and more
Strong experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS) and serverless architectures
Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
About Eisai
At Eisai, satisfying unmet medical needs and increasing the benefits healthcare provides to patients, their families, and caregivers is Eisai’s human health care (hhc) mission. We’re a growing pharmaceutical company that is breaking through in neurology and oncology, with a strong emphasis on research and development. Our history includes the development of many innovative medicines, notably the discovery of the world's most widely used treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. As we continue to expand, we are seeking highly motivated individuals who want to work in a fast paced environment and make a difference. If this is your profile, we want to hear from you.