Full-Time
Senior Cloud Architect
Egen
1,001-5,000 employees
Cloud-based AI platform development and consulting
No salary listed
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Hybrid
 DevOps & Infrastructure (1) |
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- Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in IT/Software Engineering, with at least 5-10 years in Cloud Architecture leadership roles managing enterprise-scale transformations.
- GCP: Mastery of Google Cloud Platform services, networking, and security. Primary Cloud skill.
- AWS: Deep architectural experience in Amazon Web Services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS).
- Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (including multi-cloud modules).
- Programming: At least one programming language (Java/Python).
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to the teams, customer executive, and technical leadership, translating complex technical roadmap into clear business value and risk assessments.
- Define the multi-year, enterprise-wide strategy for cloud adoption, migration, and modernization, with a strong focus on GCP services and strategic interoperability with the second cloud platform (Preferred AWS).
- Architecture Governance: Establish and enforce global cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference models, and reusable patterns for deployment, security, and operations across all environments.
- Drive advanced DevOps practices and accountability models. Oversee cloud cost optimization initiatives, negotiate large enterprise cloud contracts, and establish technical guardrails to ensure maximum ROI across the multi-cloud footprint.
- GCP Deep Expertise: Architect and lead the implementation of complex, large-scale solutions on GCP, with hands-on experience in leveraging services like GKE, Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Cloud Spanner.
- Interoperability Design: Design and govern the integration patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud systems, focusing on low-latency, secure connectivity, and consistent Identity and Access Management across platforms.
- Advanced Security: Define the DevSecOps and cloud security posture, ensuring that designs meet stringent Indian regulatory (data residency) and global compliance requirements (GDPR, HIPAA).
- Innovation & PoCs: Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies like Generative AI (e.g., Google Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock), serverless computing, and define their eventual architecture and integration into the enterprise landscape.
- Cloud Migration: experience in Cloud migration strategy and implementation
- Observability: Architect a comprehensive visibility strategy to monitor system health and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks across complex cloud environments.
- Policy Definition: Design automated governance guardrails that ensure every deployment is secure, compliant, and cost-optimized by default.
- Team Development: Mentor, coach, and grow a team of Senior/Lead Cloud Architects and engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Process Improvement: Own and drive continuous improvement of the cloud architecture delivery pipeline, promoting GitOps and end-to-end automation across the development lifecycle.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with the Data & AI Team and Engineering Leads to ensure architectural decisions align with product roadmaps and business domain goals.
- Cloud Platform Mastery: GCP Mastery; AWS experience.
- Technical Stack: IaC Terraform; at least one programming language (Java/Python).
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (Preferred)
- Professional/Expert-level Certification from the secondary cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional)
Egen.ai builds data-driven solutions by combining cloud computing, AI, and platform development to help organizations optimize operations, reduce costs, and improve decision-making. It delivers tailored consulting and scalable platforms, partnering with cloud and data platform providers across industries, including government and enterprise clients. Its solutions collect and analyze data from clients’ systems, deploy AI-powered features, and run on cloud infrastructure to support predictive maintenance, mobile ordering, and other use cases. The goal is to accelerate clients' data and platform value chains, delivering measurable cost savings and operational improvements.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Pre-seed
Total Funding
$1.3M
Headquarters
Naperville, Illinois
Founded
2000
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Qarik acquisition bolsters Egen's Google Cloud AI expertise across 700 specialists.
- Egen serves nine industries including healthcare and manufacturing with data platforms.
- High talent retention supports cloud modernization for public sector clients.
What critics are saying
- Qarik cultural clashes cause 50-70% key Google Cloud engineer attrition in 6-12 months.
- Infosys undercuts Egen's pricing, capturing 20-30% mid-market clients in 12-24 months.
- H-1B caps in 2026 block India talent, delaying 25% projects in 3-6 months.
What makes Egen unique
- Egen built 250+ predictive maintenance models for Caterpillar ingesting 12 billion IoT readings daily.
- Egen acquired Qarik to lead Google Cloud infrastructure, product, and AI services.
- Egen's ownership culture drives 90% employee satisfaction exceeding U.S. average.
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