Infosys
Sr. Technology Architect - GCP and AWS Network architecture - UK, Germany, Netherlands
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Role - Senior Technology Architect – GCP and AWS Network architecture
Location – Germany, UK and Netherlands (Any location)
Unit – CIS (Cloud and Infrastructure)
Job Description
Role Overview
The Senior Technology Architect (STA) for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is accountable for architecting, designing, and governing cloud solutions that deliver enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. This role works in close partnership with clients, delivery teams, and engineering groups to develop robust cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures for large-scale transformation programs. The STA serves as a strategic leader in cloud innovation, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and providing deep technical acumen across both GCP and AWS platforms.
Key Responsibilities
2. Technical Leadership & Governance
3. Cloud Migration & Modernization
4. Security, Resilience & Performance Engineering
5. Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory
6. Automation, DevOps & SRE Enablement
Required Skills & Experience
Cloud Architecture & Solution Design
- Lead comprehensive architectural design for workloads on GCP and AWS, including compute, storage, networking, data, containers, and serverless technologies.
- Create detailed high- and low-level design documentation, architecture diagrams, and deployment models.
- Drive modernization efforts such as containerization (GKE, EKS), microservices, serverless models, event-driven architectures, and advanced data platforms.
- Engineer sophisticated multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments leveraging Anthos, interconnectivity between GCP/AWS, and seamless on-premises integration.
- Provide expert technical direction to engineering and DevOps teams during solution design, implementation, migration, and optimization phases.
- Define and ensure compliance with architecture standards, guardrails, design patterns, and reusable templates.
- Review Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation, and oversee CI/CD pipeline maturity focusing on security, resilience, and automation.
- Ensure solutions comply with enterprise governance, regulatory, and compliance mandates (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, CIS benchmarks).
- Architect migration strategies encompassing rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, container migration, and modernization of data pipelines.
- Conduct readiness assessments, TCO/ROI analysis, and application dependency mapping.
- Establish landing zones within GCP and AWS integrating robust security, monitoring, and automation practices.
- Implement Zero Trust models, native security controls, IAM/RBAC, KMS, encryption, web application firewalls, and network segmentation.
- Architect highly available systems and disaster recovery solutions utilizing multi-zone and multi-region capabilities.
- Optimize performance through autoscaling, caching, load balancing, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Anthos, Envoy).
- Collaborate with client CTOs, architects, and business leaders to define and advance cloud strategies and transformation roadmaps.
- Provide thought leadership on emerging trends such as AI/ML integration, advanced data platforms, FinOps, and edge computing.
- Present architectural proposals, risk assessments, and governance recommendations to stakeholders.
- Design and implement end-to-end automation pipelines for build, test, release, and operational workflows.
- Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to facilitate observability, SLO/SLI tracking, error budgeting, and automated operations.
- Oversee centralized logging and monitoring using CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus/Grafana, and SIEM tools.
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Technical Skills
- Expert knowledge of GCP services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud SQL, IAM, KMS.
- Advanced proficiency with AWS services: EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, Route 53, KMS, IAM, DynamoDB.
- Strong expertise in Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
- In-depth understanding of networking, VPC design, interconnectivity options, load balancing, and service mesh.
- Expertise in container orchestration (GKE/EKS), Kubernetes security, networking, and autoscaling.
- Proven experience in data migration, ETL/ELT processes, analytics, and cloud-native storage models.
- Familiarity with FinOps, cost modeling, right-sizing, and cloud optimization techniques.
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Architecture & Strategy Skills
- Demonstrated ability to create enterprise-class architectures and strategic transformation roadmaps.
- Extensive experience transitioning legacy monolithic applications to microservices architectures.
- Proficient in defining cloud landing zones and platform engineering frameworks.
Soft Skills
- Outstanding communication skills, particularly for CxO-level audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional team leadership.
- Experience guiding large, diverse architecture and engineering organizations.
Preferred Qualifications
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certifications.
- Practical expertise with Anthos, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud service meshes.
- Experience in regulated sectors such as banking, telecommunications, or public sector.
- A minimum of 10 years in architecture roles, including at least 5 years in cloud-native environments.
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 50+ countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through the many next of their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
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All aspects of employment at Infosys are based on merit, competence, and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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