Principal Architect (AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch/ELK, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, AI/ML)

Project description

Monitoring as a Platform, a platform that is the first critical step towards a self-managed infrastructure, and includes capabilities like real-time monitoring, intelligent networks, self-healing and IoT to achieve improved productivity, organizational agility and improved employee experiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain architectural blueprints and highlevel system designs.
• Define the overall architecture and set the technical direction for the organization.
• Translate business requirements into feasible, scalable, and robust technical solutions.
• Evaluate the clients proposed technologies and assess their fit within the overall architecture.
• Recommend appropriate tools, platforms, and architectural approaches.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to ensure the architecture meets functional and non-functional requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineering teams.
• Ensure that systems meet enterprise standards for scalability, performance, reliability, and security.
• Oversee monitoring, observability, and operational health of systems.
• Architect systems leveraging AWS cloud services.
• Integrate AI/ML infrastructure components and automation frameworks into the solution architecture.
• Lead the design and optimization of ELK-based logging systems.
• Guide the implementation of monitoring and visualization platforms such as Grafana.
• Oversee infrastructure-as-code automation using Ansible and Terraform.
• Support containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.

Mandatory Skills

• 12+ years of experience in designing and documenting architectural blueprints.
• 5+ years specifically in solution architecture or similar roles.
• Knowledge and practical use of enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Expertise in scalable system design and distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture and services.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible.
• Advanced knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling.
• Proficiency in the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash), including deployment and optimization.
• Experience with Grafana for dashboards and visualization.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate architectural decisions clearly.