Cloud Infrastructure Architect - CI/CD & Platform Engineering

Req ID:   390588   NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now. We are currently seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Architect - CI/CD & Platform Engineering to join our team in Bangalore, Karnātaka (IN-KA), India (IN). About the Role We are looking for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, standardize, and evolve our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines across the organization. This is a senior, hands-on architecture role responsible for defining scalable, resilient, and secure cloud infrastructure patterns, and for owning the CI/CD strategy that enables engineering teams to ship reliably and quickly. You will work at the intersection of cloud architecture, DevOps/platform engineering, and infrastructure-as-code, setting the technical direction for how workloads are provisioned, deployed, and operated across our cloud environments. ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities Cloud Infrastructure Architecture •    Design and evolve enterprise cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP or multi-cloud), including landing zones, account/subscription strategy, network topology, and resource organization. •    Define reference architectures for compute (VMs, containers, Kubernetes, serverless), storage, networking, and data services that balance cost, performance, scalability, and reliability. •    Establish Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) standards and reusable modules (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Bicep) to enforce consistency across teams and environments. •    Architect for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity, including multi-region/multi-AZ design and RTO/RPO planning. •    Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives (FinOps) — rightsizing, reserved capacity/savings plans, autoscaling, and tagging/governance strategies. •    Evaluate and integrate cloud-native managed services to reduce operational overhead while meeting security and compliance requirements. CI/CD & Deployment Engineering •    Design and own end-to-end CI/CD architecture and standards across the organization, covering build, test, security scanning, artifact management, and deployment stages. •    Build and maintain reusable pipeline templates (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI) to standardize deployment practices across teams. •    Implement progressive delivery strategies — blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments — to minimize risk and downtime during releases. •    Define GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) for Kubernetes and cloud-native application deployments. •    Establish environment promotion strategies (dev → staging → production), release gating, approval workflows, and rollback mechanisms. •    Partner with engineering teams to reduce lead time for changes and deployment failure rates, and to improve overall DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate). •    Integrate security and compliance checks into the pipeline (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, image scanning, policy-as-code) in partnership with security teams. Platform Reliability & Operations •    Define observability standards (metrics, logging, tracing) and integrate monitoring/alerting into infrastructure and deployment pipelines. •    Drive containerization and orchestration strategy (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE), including cluster architecture, namespace/multi-tenancy design, and workload scheduling. •    Establish patterns for secrets management, configuration management, and environment parity across the deployment lifecycle. •    Support incident response and post-incident reviews related to infrastructure or deployment failures, driving root-cause fixes into architecture standards. •    Define capacity planning and autoscaling strategies to meet performance SLAs cost-effectively. Leadership & Collaboration •    Act as the technical authority on cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices, advising engineering, security, and product teams. •    Review and approve infrastructure and deployment designs for new services prior to production rollout. •    Mentor DevOps/platform/SRE engineers and champion infrastructure-as-code and automation-first culture across the organization. •    Partner with security architecture on secure infrastructure and deployment patterns (network segmentation, IAM, pipeline hardening). •    Evaluate emerging tools and vendors, and lead build-vs-buy decisions for platform tooling. ________________________________________ Required Qualifications •    10+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, with 3+ years in an architect-level capacity. •    Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP); multi-cloud experience a plus. •    Proven track record designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines at scale, using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or CircleCI. •    Strong expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Bicep) and configuration management (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet). •    Solid experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) including production-grade cluster design. •    Experience implementing GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue/green). •    Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC/VNet design, load balancing, DNS, CDN) and how they intersect with deployment architecture. •    Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry). •    Experience integrating security scanning and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines. •    Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate architecture decisions into practical guidance for engineering teams. Preferred Qualifications •    Cloud certificati