Cloud & Infra Architect

We are seeking a Cloud & Infrastructure Architect with 4-7 years of experience to design, implement, and optimise secure, scalable, and resilient cloud and infrastructure solutions across key financial domains including Payments, Investor Services & Trade, Pricing & Billing, and Liquidity Management. The role focuses on enabling high-performance platforms that support mission-critical financial systems, data processing, and analytics.

• Design and implement cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure architectures aligned to business and regulatory requirements.
• Build scalable, secure, and highly available platforms supporting payments, trading systems, billing engines, and treasury solutions.
• Define and enforce infrastructure standards, architecture principles, and best practices.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, AI/ML Engineers, DevOps, and application teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity for critical financial systems.
• Implement infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Optimise cloud environments for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure security, compliance, and governance across all infrastructure components.
• Support real-time and high-throughput systems (e.g., payments and trading platforms).
• Monitor infrastructure performance and proactively resolve issues.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates).
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, load balancers, firewalls).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Understanding of security best practices (IAM, encryption, secrets management).
• Experience with high-availability and disaster recovery architectures.

• Pricing & Billing: Pricing engines, billing platforms, revenue systems.
• Liquidity Management: Treasury systems, cash management platforms, liquidity risk infrastructure.

• Strong architectural thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to design scalable and resilient systems in complex environments.
• Good communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Attention to detail with a focus on security, reliability, and performance.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.