About Us:

At Tech Mahindra (Tech Mahindra | Connected World, Connected Experiences), we live the philosophy of connected world and connected experiences. We thrive on change that is powered by the intelligent symphony of technology and humans designing meaningful and sustainable experiences. Consumer ‘experiences’ are driving and disrupting industries like never before. Businesses must build seamless yet simple enterprises that collaborate, synergize, and drive the change. Change that connects us all and empowers us to deliver experiences that span across the digital, the physical, the convergent, and everything in between. That’s when truly connected experiences manifest.

Extraordinary is when experiences come together – a continuous convergence of digital technologies, touchpoints, and most importantly people. It’s time to reimagine, reinvent, and revolutionize business models & operations as well as to transform enterprises into living, breathing, and connected businesses. We are the Digital Change makers who strive to change the way the world, communities, businesses, and humans interact digitally. We are harnessing the power of change, brought in by technologies, that makes it the most exciting time to be alive in the human history. Our universe, as we build it, disrupt it, and redesign it, is powering the digital change.

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and customer-centric information technology experiences, enabling Enterprises, Associates, and the Society to Rise. It has 150,000+ professionals working for 1000+ Global Customers (including Fortune 500 companies) in 90 Countries. We’re part of the esteemed Mahindra group, headquartered in India. Under a new CEO, Tech Mahindra is committed to a transformative journey with 'Scale @ Speed' as our guiding principle.

About the role:

Cloud Consulting Architect

• Minimum of 15+ years of IT Experience, 6+ Years of Experience as an Architect/Pre/Post-Sales Tech Support, 5+ Years of Public Cloud Experience
• Strong Client facing Cloud Consulting experience
• Strong experience leading an Enterprise client building strategy / roadmap for them. Strong experience leading post Tech Sales activities as a Cloud Architect
• Strong understanding of one of the Public Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Strong leadership skills working in customer facing environment
• Responsible for steering / driving the most important and complex future domain planning activities and projects. Involved in the development of application/infra domain policies, standards and guidelines that direct the research / investigation, selection, development, implementation, and use of IT within the organization.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and approaches for application domain, architecture governance and tooling, domain leadership role to work with other functions of the Enterprise Architecture Function to drive the maturity of the group and ensure delivery of seamless, end-to-end Enterprise Architecture Services.
• Implementation, deployment and/or Program Management for Azure IaaS, PaaS, Technologies
• Creation of SOW/BOM/Architecture design documents based on Customer requirements
• Great Communication skills
• Azure and/or AWS Architect certification required

Must have Technical Requirements

• Cloud Storage best practices, scripting, Storage Security, good to have awareness about Azure Storage API including any Storage tools.
• Solid understanding on Virtual Machines, Imaging Best Practices, ability to provide proactive Guidance on creating/deploying/managing VM's either through images or ARM templates.
• Strong understanding of Cloud Networking including Virtual Network Designing a must
• Work with Azure to integrate network-specific products and services to improve our ecosystem.
• Understanding of Load Balancing, Geo-Redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies preferred.
• Strong Understanding of Security Controls of cloud (Network Security, End Point Security , IAM )
• Design around DevOps / Continuous Integration model, implement robust security measures and practice DevOps and agile principles
• Ability to automate Azure Operational related task leveraging PowerShell, Azure Automation
• Should possess Architectural knowledge to guide customer in achieving High Availability, Disaster Recovery for workloads running in Azure
• Good understanding of Micro-Services Architecture (Kubernetes)
• Should have a good understanding of Cloud (Azure, AWS) cost/billing propositions.
• Should have a good understanding of Open-source technologies used for native cloud applications

“Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations also are available in the hiring process for applicants with disabilities.