Cloud Solution Architect

Company Overview

300+ media companies as clients, $40+ billion in revenue processed, 25,000+ worldwide users.

Operative is a revenue accelerant for media companies around the world. No other software company in AdTech space, brings a comparable depth of experience to create truly innovative software that performs across all platforms, revenue models and business units. We are a SAAS (Software as a Service) platform which helps clients manage advertisements both in the linear (TV) and digital space. We have been in the market for over two decades and have 1100+ employees with 12 offices spread across the globe. Operative is proud to play a pivotal role in the way advertising is bought, sold and managed across media industry.

JOB SUMMARY

 
The Cloud Solution Architect will act as the technical design authority, ensuring our products follow robust architectural patterns, comply with internal governance, and are aligned with industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strengthen the Posture of Existing Cloud Products

• Conduct architecture and design reviews for AWS and GCP workloads.
• Identify and remediate posture gaps across security, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Align implementations with AWS/GCP Well-Architected Frameworks, NIST, CIS, and other standards.
• Partner with Cloud Security, FinOps, and SRE teams to drive end-to-end governance and continuous improvement.

1. Enable New Initiatives

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design secure, scalable, and cost-efficient architectures for new workloads.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns, and IaC blueprints to accelerate development cycles.
• Conduct design reviews and approve architectures before launch, ensuring alignment with compliance and regulatory mandates.

1. Architecture Governance & Best Practices

• Define and enforce architecture standards across all cloud platforms and business units.
• Champion adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD integration, container security, and observability frameworks.
• Act as a bridge between Cloud Operations, Security, and Product Engineering, ensuring architecture decisions support both business and technical goals.

1. Team Management & Leadership Requirements

• Technical Leadership:
  Guide and mentor a team of cloud engineers working across AWS and GCP. Provide hands-on architectural direction, ensuring adherence to best practices in infrastructure design, automation, and security.
• Skill Development & Coaching:
  Identify skill gaps within the cloud engineering team and create structured development plans, including training on new cloud services, IaC, DevOps, DevSecOps, and FinOps practices.
• Performance Management:
  Set measurable objectives and KPIs aligned with organizational goals — such as uptime, security posture improvement, cost savings, and deployment frequency.
  Conduct regular performance reviews and feedback sessions to drive accountability and growth.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment:
  Foster strong collaboration between App Support, Engineering, SRE and Security teams to ensure architectural consistency and operational excellence.
• Operational Excellence:
  Ensure smooth execution of day-to-day cloud operations, incident response, and infrastructure improvements. Implement mechanisms to reduce toil through automation and proactive monitoring.
• Resource Planning & Allocation:
  Manage engineering bandwidth, prioritize initiatives based on business impact, and ensure effective utilization of resources across multiple projects and environments.
• Culture & Engagement:
  Build a culture of continuous learning, ownership, and innovation. Encourage engineers to contribute to architectural discussions, PoCs, and automation improvements.
• Process Governance:
  Drive standardization across the team through documentation, peer reviews, and architecture approval processes.
  Ensure alignment with compliance, security, and cost governance frameworks.

Expectations from the role

• Reduced Incidents & Risks: Improved cloud posture leading to fewer P1/P2 incidents and audit findings.
• Accelerated Delivery: Pre-validated design templates reduce rework and speed up product launches.
• Optimized Cloud Spend: Right-sizing, resource governance, and FinOps integration ensure sustainable cost savings.
• Compliance Confidence: Built-in adherence to ISO, SOC2, and regional regulatory frameworks.
• Future-Ready Architecture: Systems designed to scale and evolve with the organization’s growth.

Qualification and Experience

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure design, or DevOps roles.
• Proven expertise in AWS and GCP services (compute, networking, security, storage, and monitoring).
• Strong understanding of cloud governance, FinOps principles, and security frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001).
• Experience in IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS).
• Hands-on experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, observability tools, and cost optimization strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and leadership teams.
• Certifications preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent

Why join us ?

• Operative is a technology-oriented product organization that believes in empowering its people
• We use the latest tech stack and empower our engineers to learn, work and ideate on new technologies available in the market
• We provide flexi work schedules and remote working to encourage work life balance
• We are an equal opportunities employer and recruit based on the experience and skill set.
• We offer a competitive salary and benefits package

Please apply online and upload your CV.

“Operative is a merit-first, equal opportunity employer; diverse applications are encouraged.”

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