Qualifications
ResponsibilitiesSteer and govern the Road Architecture Blueprint encompassing infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, observability, security, and Developer Experience. Establish and enforce technology standards, golden paths, and approved toolsets. Design and direct the AWS cloud model. Ensure compliance and alignment with regulatory and security frameworks (IMDA, PDPA, CSA, MAS-TRM, ISO27001). Lead the implementation of microservices, containerization, API gateways, and cloud-native patterns. Guide the development of the Spotify Backstage developer portal roadmap and plugin ecosystem. Provide architectural guidance to Shared Services, SRE, Cloud, Security, and Application teams. Document architecture principles, guardrails, RFCs, and paved-road workflows. Requirements10-15 years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering, cloud architecture, or DevOps within large-scale technology or telecommunications environments. Proven experience in designing platforms that support more than 50 microservices or multi-team engineering organizations. Deep expertise in AWS services (EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC). Thorough understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Configuration as Code (CaC), GitOps, container orchestration, and cloud networking. Experience with internal developer platforms such as Backstage, Port, OpsLevel, or similar. Robust knowledge of security architecture principles (IAM, secrets management, compliance, audit, least privilege). Preferred certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, CKA/CKAD, TOGAF (optional).
About the job
Role: Platform Architect (AWS & Cloud)
Join us at Cygnify as we partner with a premier telecom client to seek a skilled Platform Architect. In this pivotal role, you will define and oversee the comprehensive architecture framework that encompasses standardized infrastructure, CI/CD practices, cloud foundations, observability, security, and an enhanced developer experience across all Information Systems applications. Your leadership will drive cloud modernization initiatives on AWS, ensuring compliance by design with various frameworks (IMDA, PDPA, CSA, MAS-TRM, ISO27001) while enabling a scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and future-ready platform featuring Backstage, AI/ML observability, and self-service workflows.