Chief Platform & Cloud Architect (AWS | Platform Engineering | AI Operations)

SkillsCapital

Location: India
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

Python
AWS
Bash
capacity planning
cloud infrastructure
CloudFormation
CloudFront
CloudWatch
compliance
Datadog
DevOps
Docker
EC2
enterprise SaaS
GitHub
Helm
incident response
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Lambda
platform services
Root Cause Analysis
SaaS
Splunk
SRE
Terraform
VPC

About the role

SkillsCapital

Website: skillscapital.io
Company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skillscapital
Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
Job details:
Chief Platform & Cloud Architect (AWS | Platform Engineering | AI Operations)

📍 Location: Remote (India)

💼 Employment Type: Full-Time

🌍 Work Mode: 100% Remote

💰 Experience: 12+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for a Chief Platform & Cloud Architect to define and lead the cloud platform that powers a growing portfolio of enterprise SaaS products.

This is not a traditional Cloud Architect role focused on a single application. You will be responsible for building and governing the cloud foundation across multiple products, engineering teams, and environments.

You will own AWS platform architecture, Landing Zones, cloud governance, platform engineering, security, observability, reliability engineering, FinOps, and AI-powered cloud operations.

The ideal candidate has built enterprise-scale cloud platforms, established Platform Engineering practices, implemented Infrastructure as Code, and introduced AI-driven operational automation that improves reliability, developer productivity, security, and cloud efficiency.

If you enjoy solving large-scale platform engineering challenges and want to shape the future of intelligent cloud operations, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact.

What You'll DoCloud Platform Strategy & Architecture

Define and own the enterprise AWS cloud strategy across multiple SaaS products.
Design and govern AWS Landing Zones using AWS Organizations, Organizational Units (OUs), AWS Control Tower, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
Build secure, scalable, multi-account cloud environments for Development, QA, Staging, Production, and Internal Engineering.
Define enterprise-wide cloud governance, architecture standards, and engineering best practices.
Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient cloud platforms capable of operating at organizational scale.
Standardize Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CDK to ensure repeatable, secure, and version-controlled infrastructure deployments.

Platform Engineering

Build and evolve an enterprise Platform Engineering capability.
Design and implement Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), Golden Paths, and self-service infrastructure.
Improve Developer Experience (DevEx) through reusable platform services and automation.
Build standardized CI/CD pipelines and cloud provisioning frameworks.
Define reusable cloud architecture patterns that accelerate engineering teams while maintaining governance.

Cloud Infrastructure & Networking

Architect and optimize enterprise cloud infrastructure across services including:

Amazon EC2
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
CloudFront
Route 53
VPC
Transit Gateway
IAM
Secrets Manager
AWS KMS
CloudWatch
EventBridge

while ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and operational excellence.

Security & Cloud Governance

Define enterprise security architecture across cloud infrastructure, applications, and data.
Implement IAM least-privilege access models and Zero Trust principles.
Manage encryption, secrets management, and secure service-to-service communication.
Establish continuous compliance through AWS Config, CloudTrail, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and automated policy enforcement.
Drive governance standards across all AWS accounts and environments.

Reliability Engineering & Observability

Own the organization's cloud reliability strategy by implementing:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Error Budgets
Production Readiness Reviews
Operational Runbooks
Disaster Recovery Planning
High Availability Architecture

Build and operate a modern observability platform using:

Prometheus
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
CloudWatch
Distributed Tracing
Centralized Logging
Alerting
Performance Dashboards

Drive continuous improvements in platform reliability, availability, and operational efficiency.

FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization

Lead enterprise cloud cost optimization initiatives.
Implement tagging standards and cloud governance policies.
Optimize infrastructure through rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and capacity planning.
Build visibility into cloud utilization and operational efficiency.
Partner with engineering teams to improve cloud economics without compromising reliability.

AI-Powered Cloud Operations

Build the next generation of intelligent cloud operations by introducing:

Agentic AI
AIOps
AI-assisted Infrastructure Automation
AWS Bedrock
Intelligent Incident Detection
Automated Root Cause Analysis
Predictive Scaling
AI-powered Operational Runbooks
Cost Anomaly Detection
Self-healing Infrastructure Workflows

Transform cloud operations from reactive incident management to proactive, intelligent automation.

What We're Looking ForExperience

12+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure.
Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale AWS platforms.
Hands-on experience implementing AWS Landing Zones, AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
Strong background building Platform Engineering capabilities and Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).
Experience managing cloud environments across Development, QA, Staging, and Production.
Deep understanding of enterprise cloud security, governance, networking, and compliance.
Strong experience building enterprise observability platforms.
Experience driving cloud modernization and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strong hands-on technical capability with architecture, automation, and cloud engineering.

Technical ExpertiseAWS

AWS Organizations • AWS Control Tower • Landing Zones • Service Control Policies (SCPs) • EC2 • EKS • Lambda • IAM • VPC • Transit Gateway • Route 53 • CloudFront • RDS • S3 • CloudWatch • EventBridge • Secrets Manager • AWS KMS

Infrastructure & Automation

Terraform • AWS CDK • CloudFormation • Docker • Kubernetes • Helm • GitOps • ArgoCD • GitHub Actions • Jenkins • Python • Bash

Observability

Prometheus • Grafana • OpenTelemetry • CloudWatch • Datadog • Splunk • ELK • New Relic

Platform Engineering

Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) • Golden Paths • Developer Experience (DevEx) • Self-Service Infrastructure • Infrastructure as Code • Cloud Governance • Platform Engineering

AI & Intelligent Operations

Agentic AI • AIOps • AWS Bedrock • AI-assisted Operations • Intelligent Automation • LLM-powered Infrastructure Automation • MCP (Model Context Protocol) • AI-driven Incident Response

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Security Specialty
AWS Advanced Networking Specialty
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
TOGAF Certification
Experience in enterprise SaaS or product engineering organizations.
Experience building cloud platforms supporting multiple products and engineering teams.
Exposure to AI-powered operational tooling and cloud automation.

Ideal Background

Candidates with experience in roles such as:

Chief Cloud Architect
Principal Cloud Architect
Principal Platform Engineer
Platform Engineering Director
Cloud Platform Architect
Director of Platform Engineering
Head of Cloud Engineering
Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Engineering Leader – Cloud & DevOps
Enterprise Cloud Architect
AWS Platform Architect
Infrastructure Architecture Leader

Why Join Us?

You'll have the opportunity to architect and govern the cloud platform that powers an entire organization—not just a single product.

This role offers the chance to shape enterprise cloud strategy, build modern Platform Engineering capabilities, introduce AI-powered cloud operations, and establish the standards that enable engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and highly reliable software at scale.

If you're passionate about Platform Engineering, cloud architecture, intelligent automation, and building world-class cloud foundations, we'd love to hear from you.

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