Seeking a highly experienced Cloud Architect to design and oversee robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions for enterprise environments in oil & gas and other regulated industries (energy, finance, government).

Key Responsibilities :

- Architect end-to-end cloud solutions (public, private, hybrid) with a focus on reliability, security, compliance, and scalability.

- Lead migration and modernization projects of mission-critical applications.

- Define cloud governance, access management, and security best practices.

- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.

- Enable and operationalize AI/ML workloadsdeploying, scaling, and maintaining data pipelines and model inferencing on the cloud.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to align cloud strategy with organizational goals.

Core Technical & AI/ML Skills :

- Deep knowledge of at least one leading cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).

- Experience with cloud-native AI/ML services (e.g., AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, Google AI Platform), enabling secure integration and operationalization of models.

- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) and AI-powered IaC generation tools.

- Cloud security (IAM, encryption, compliance frameworks), including governance for AI/ML pipelines.

- Application modernization (containers, Kubernetes, serverless architectures).

- CI/CD, cloud automation, and AI-powered scripting/plugins (e.g., GitHub Copilot).

- Enterprise networking concepts (VPC, VPN, hybrid connectivity).

- Monitoring, observability, and cost optimization.

Soft Skills :

- Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders.

- Proven leadership and mentoring of cross-functional teams.

- Strong problem-solving in high-stakes, regulated environments.

- Proactive in evaluating and introducing AI tools for productivity and process improvement.