Principal Infrastructure Architect

At OpsGuru, we're a people-first, customer-obsessed company motivated by our passion for empowering organizations of all sizes to embrace the power of Cloud technology through impactful, reliable and scalable consultancy services.

Our team is made up of technical experts, creatives, salespeople, and many more. We work together to drive our mission forward and raise the bar for our customers daily, bringing their vision to life. We strive to be a workplace of inspired minds by fostering an environment that encourages innovative thinking, where everyone can grow and contribute to achieving their goals.

Our long-term visionis to continue being an innovative and inspiring company that our customers and employees admire, and we invite you to join us!
About the role:

Principal Infrastructure Architects are expected to provide deep business and technical expertise across all of our focus areas in the cloud, specifically leading our public cloud Infrastructure practice.

They are thought leaders and can respectfully guide and challenge customers, to ensure they receive the highest level of value from their technology investments. A key component of this role is the ability to leverage AI and LLMs to simplify complex workflows, automate architectural tasks, and drive efficiency in service delivery.

While this role is largely focused on technical and consulting-based delivery directly with customers, the Principal Architect may also be required to act as a people manager for a team of ~5 direct reports of Architects and Engineers. This would include tasks such as having regular one-to-one meetings, having professional development and goal-setting conversations, and acting as part of a communication and feedback system with your direct team. Additionally, you would help to escalate administrative or project-related issues brought to your attention and provide recommendations towards performance reviews and promotions for your team.
What you'll be doing:

- Report directly to OpsGuru Leadership.

- Confidently discuss every stage of the technology adoption cycle, all the way from the CEO to the developer, across multiple technical domains.

- Identify and implement opportunities to use AI to streamline infrastructure delivery and simplify internal consultancy processes.

- Assigned to several accounts and are expected to work with their clients to become a trusted technical advisor in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) Infrastructure and Data enablement.

- Thought leadership.

- Guide and challenge clients in a respectful manner to ensure they receive the highest level of value from their technology investments.

- Provide oversight to projectteams to ensure technical outcomes align to solving customer business problems within project budgets and timelines.

- Work with Engagement Managers to help manage project scope, and work with project teams and customers to help manage project expectations and delivery quality

- Participate in the sales process, typically in a pre-sales or equivalent capacity.

- Work alongside our Account Executives and Presales Architects to scope and provide support on creating statements of works for our clients, as well as being heavily involved in account management.

Your skills & experience:
Technical and Consulting

- 10+ years of experience in a relevant information technology environment.

- 5+ years of experience delivering professional services as a Principal Consultant or equivalent leadership role, focused on infrastructure and platform workloads on public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), delivering the following:
- Public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) Infrastructure Adoption or public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) Cloud migration in enterprise and small to medium-scale environments (IaaS, Networking, Security)

- Data Platform / analytics infrastructure on public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) (eg. Azure Data Factory, Azure Fabric, Synapse)

- Microservices adoption on public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) (eg. AKS, Azure Cont