Cloud Architect, AWS

Cloud Architect – AWS

About Josys

Josys, a dynamic B2B SaaS platform startup, has embarked on a mission to

revolutionize IT operations globally, following an exceptional launch in Japan and

securing $125 million in Series A and B funding. Our platform enables businesses to

conquer the complexities of work-from-anywhere setups, rapid digital transformation,

and the proliferation of SaaS applications by simplifying, optimizing, and securing their IT

operations.

With a presence in 9 countries, including Japan, India, and the USA, our cutting-edge

product technology center is located in Bengaluru, India. As we continue our rapid

expansion, we aim to increase our full-time employee headcount in 2025/2026,

enhancing our capacity to innovate and deliver.

Josys was spun off from RAKSUL, a celebrated Japanese unicorn and Forbes Startup of

the Year 2018, which is renowned for driving transformation through three pioneering

B2B e-commerce platforms.

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Architect with deep expertise in AWS cloud

infrastructure, CI/CD automation, configuration management, security operations

(SecOps), and Cost optimization. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and

oversee scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud environments that accelerate product

delivery and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

• Define and drive a comprehensive Cloud strategy that is aligned with the
• organization’s vision and objectives.
• Develop strategies for enhancing developer productivity & efficiency.
• Champion security & compliance (DevSecOps).
• Develop strategy for reliability & observability at Scale.
• Foster a Culture of Continuous Improvement.
• Optimize Costs & Resource Utilization (FinOps).
• Cross-Functional collaboration & stakeholder engagement.

• Cloud Architecture & Design:
• Design, document, and implement secure, scalable, and resilient AWS cloud
• architectures.
• Define cloud adoption strategies, modernization roadmaps, and migration plans
• from on-prem to cloud.
• Ensure alignment with business continuity, compliance, and performance
• requirements.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and manage infrastructure automation
• using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Implement version-controlled, reusable, and modular IaC templates.

CI/CD & DevOps Integration:

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI,
• or AWS CodePipeline.
• Automate build, test, and deployment workflows for applications and
• infrastructure.
• Champion best practices for release management and continuous delivery.

Configuration Management:

• Implement and maintain configuration management using Ansible, Chef, or
• Puppet.
• Enforce consistent environment provisioning across development, staging, and
• production.
• Security & Compliance (SecOps):
• Integrate security-as-code practices and automated compliance checks into
• pipelines.
• Manage IAM policies, roles, and identity federation following least-privilege
• principles.
• Collaborate with security teams for threat modeling, vulnerability management,
• and incident response.
• Ensure compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC2, and GDPR.
• FinOps (Cloud Cost Optimization):
• Analyze and optimize AWS resource utilization and spending.
• Implement cost governance, tagging strategies, and budgeting alerts.
• Partner with finance teams for forecasting, chargebacks, and cost visibility
• dashboards.
• Define observability frameworks using CloudWatch, Datadog, or
• Prometheus/Grafana.
• Drive reliability engineering practices for uptime, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Work closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to define cloud
• standards and guardrails.
• Mentor DevOps and development teams on best practices in automation,
• security, and cloud operations.s
• Required Skills & Experience
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or
• equivalent experience.
• Experience: 12+ years in cloud infrastructure or DevOps roles, with at least 6 years as
• an AWS Architect.
• Certifications (Preferred):
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Speciality,
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty.

Technical Skills

• Cloud Platform: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, EKS, ECS, CloudFront, CloudFormation,
• CloudWatch)
• CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD
• IaC & Config Management: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, AWS CDK
• SecOps: IAM, AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, AWS Config, KMS, WAF
• FinOps: AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, CloudHealth, CloudCheckr
• Monitoring: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
• Alerting: Pagerduty, Victorops, Opsgenie
• Scripting: Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Soft Skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Passion for automation, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and influence architecture decisions.