Scope Summary
The L3 Azure Cloud Architect / FinOps & DevSecOps Lead will be responsible for enterprise cloud architecture, governance, DevSecOps strategy, reliability engineering, multi-cloud operational governance, advanced observability architecture, security governance, platform modernization, and strategic cloud financial optimization initiatives. The role includes end-to-end ownership of long-term cloud transformation programs, enterprise scalability engineering, infrastructure governance frameworks, automation initiatives, and FinOps leadership focused on continuously optimizing and sustaining infrastructure spend below the defined organizational target while ensuring platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
Key Scope of Work
Enterprise Azure Architecture & Governance
Lead enterprise Azure architecture design, cloud landing zones, governance frameworks, subscription hierarchy, management groups, and platform standardization.
Define cloud governance standards, policy management, tagging governance, environment segregation, and operational governance frameworks.
Design highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures aligned with enterprise growth requirements.
Define enterprise HA/DR strategy, backup governance, business continuity planning, and resiliency standards.
AKS & Cloud-Native Platform Architecture
Define scalable AKS architecture, Kubernetes governance standards, cluster segmentation, ingress architecture, and workload isolation strategies.
Lead container platform modernization, workload governance, scalability optimization, and platform resiliency initiatives.
Define observability-integrated AKS architecture with centralized monitoring, distributed tracing, service mesh strategy, and operational telemetry.
Define HPA/VPA governance, deployment architecture, resource optimization standards, and workload deployment governance.
Enterprise Networking & Security Governance
Lead enterprise networking architecture covering VNET segmentation, ExpressRoute, VPN, firewall architecture, WAF governance, DNS governance, CDN integration, and secure hybrid connectivity.
Define secure network segmentation models, zero-trust architecture, traffic governance, and infrastructure hardening standards.
Lead IAM strategy, RBAC governance, privileged access governance, and enterprise security architecture initiatives.
Drive security standardization across Azure, GCP, AKS, CDN platforms, databases, and observability tooling.
Strategic Cloud Cost Optimization Leadership
Define and execute enterprise-wide cloud optimization roadmaps targeting sustained infrastructure spend reduction below ₹50L/month.
Lead long-term infrastructure optimization initiatives focused on reducing cloud overhead while maintaining platform scalability and operational stability.
Conduct enterprise workload utilization reviews, infrastructure rationalization, modernization assessments, and optimization governance reviews.
Drive strategic optimization initiatives across AKS, Azure VMs, networking, databases, CDN platforms, observability tooling, storage layers, and cloud-native workloads.
Define cloud financial governance standards, cost allocation models, optimization governance frameworks, and infrastructure efficiency initiatives.
FinOps Governance & Savings Strategy
Lead enterprise FinOps governance covering Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot strategy, autoscaling optimization, compute rightsizing, and storage lifecycle optimization.
Define cloud utilization governance, budget forecasting, optimization governance, and proactive savings initiatives.
Drive optimization reviews across AKS node utilization, database workloads, observability platforms, CDN traffic optimization, and storage utilization.
Lead environment rationalization, idle resource cleanup initiatives, workload modernization strategy, and infrastructure consolidation programs.
Present savings roadmaps, optimization dashboards, infrastructure efficiency metrics, and cost governance reviews to leadership stakeholders.
Database, CDN & Multi-Cloud Optimization Strategy
Define operational and optimization strategy for ScyllaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Azure SQL, HDInsight, and Azure Data Explorer environments.
Lead performance engineering and infrastructure optimization initiatives for distributed databases and large-scale data platforms.
Define JioCDN and Fastly CDN optimization strategy including cache governance, edge routing optimization, traffic management, and CDN cost optimization.
Lead multi-cloud governance across Azure, GCP, Firebase, BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Airflow operational environments.
Drive centralized governance and integrated optimization across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure platforms.
Enterprise Observability, APM & Reliability Engineering
Define enterprise observability architecture, centralized logging strategy, monitoring governance, distributed tracing standards, and APM governance frameworks.
Lead CloudXP onboarding governance, telemetry standardization, alert governance, and enterprise operational visibility initiatives.
Define cross-platform alerting standards, escalation governance, incident visibility frameworks, and centralized operational governance models.
Lead reliability engineering initiatives including SLA governance, SLO definitions, RCA governance, resiliency engineering, scalability assessments, and capacity planning.
Drive operational excellence programs focused on reducing alert fatigue, improving observability maturity, and increasing platform reliability.
Security Compliance, VA/PT & DevSecOps Governance
Lead internal/external VA/PT governance, remediation tracking, audit readiness, compliance governance, and enterprise security operations.
Define enterprise DevSecOps strategy covering CI/CD security governance, deployment security standards, secret management, and release governance.
Lead infrastructure hardening initiatives, proactive compliance remediation, and security automation programs.
Drive governance across Azure Defender, WAF policies, IAM controls, RBAC governance, and cloud-native security tooling.
DevSecOps, Automation & Platform Engineering Strategy
Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform/Bicep and enforce enterprise deployment governance.
Lead CI/CD governance frameworks, deployment approvals, rollback governance, release standards, and automation architecture.
Drive platform engineering initiatives focused on self-healing infrastructure, operational automation, auto-remediation, and deployment standardization.
Define enterprise automation frameworks across infrastructure operations, observability tooling, networking, and cloud operations.
SLA, Operational Governance & On-Call Framework
Define SLA governance models, severity matrices, escalation frameworks, operational response standards, and incident governance processes.
Define production support governance, on-call operational models, after-hours support frameworks, and critical incident management standards.
Lead operational governance reviews, problem management governance, and executive operational reporting.
Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Management
Present optimization dashboards, FinOps reports, infrastructure governance updates, security reviews, operational metrics, and modernization initiatives to leadership teams.
Lead governance discussions with business stakeholders, vendors, security teams, infrastructure teams, and executive leadership groups.
Define strategic cloud roadmaps, modernization programs, transformation initiatives, and operational maturity frameworks.
Cloud Transformation & Modernization Programs
Drive enterprise cloud modernization, infrastructure transformation, automation initiatives, observability maturity improvements, and platform optimization programs.
Lead strategic initiatives focused on improving scalability, governance, operational efficiency, deployment maturity, reliability, and cloud financial optimization.
Define enterprise operational excellence frameworks and long-term cloud transformation strategies aligned with organizational growth and scalability objectives.
Priority
Scope Item
P0
Enterprise Azure Architecture & Governance
P0
Strategic Cloud Cost Optimization Leadership
P0
FinOps Governance & Savings Strategy
P0
Enterprise Security Governance & DevSecOps Strategy
P0
AKS & Cloud-Native Platform Architecture
P0
Enterprise Networking & Security Architecture
P0
Multi-Cloud Governance & Optimization Strategy
P1
Enterprise Observability, APM & Reliability Engineering
P1
SLA, Severity Matrix & Escalation Governance
P1
On-Call & Operational Governance Framework
P1
Cloud Transformation & Modernization Programs
P1
Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Governance
P1
SRE Governance & Reliability Engineering
P1
FinOps KPI Governance & Optimization Dashboards
P1
Database, CDN & Platform Optimization Strategy
P1
DevSecOps, Automation & IaC Governance
P1
Security Compliance, VA/PT Governance & Audit Readiness
P2
Capacity Planning & Scalability Governance
P2
Operational Excellence & Platform Modernization
P2
Enterprise Automation & Self-Healing Strategy
P2
Infrastructure Standardization & Governance Improvements