Associate Director (Cloud Platform Architect)

Must have Skills : DevOps - Azure (Strong), Cloud Architecture (Strong), DevSecOps

Ideal profile:

• A strong combination of Platform Architect + Cloud Engineer + SRE + Performance Engineer + DevOps Leader, with the ability to lead teams while remaining technically hands-on.
• Lead the Platform Engineering function across Azure Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Performance Engineering, Application Modernization, and Developer Enablement.
• Define and drive the platform architecture, engineering strategy, standards, and technology roadmap for a scalable enterprise platform.
• Provide strong hands-on expertise in Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, networking, API Management, databases, messaging, and cloud-native services.
• Establish Golden Paths / Paved Roads, reusable platform capabilities, engineering standards, and self-service developer experiences.
• Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and automated deployment practices.
• Establish and drive SRE practices, including SLI/SLO, reliability engineering, incident management, RCA, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Drive end-to-end performance and production troubleshooting, from application/API through Kubernetes, Azure infrastructure, databases, and external dependencies.
• Establish a comprehensive observability strategy covering metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and proactive performance monitoring.
• Define and enforce security, governance, identity, secrets management, policy-as-code, and compliance standards across the platform.
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, cost-effective, and operationally ready.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to engineers across Platform, DevOps, SRE, Performance Engineering, and Application teams.
• Collaborate closely with Architecture, Product, Development, Security, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to remove technical blockers and accelerate delivery.
• Be a hands-on technical leader who can move from architecture and strategy to implementation, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex production issues.