Senior Application Architect

Architect and implement secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). Manage multi-cloud/hybrid architectures with high availability and disaster recovery. Enforce Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) standards (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.). Ensure compliance with security policies, data privacy regulations, and industry standards. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployments. Integrate automated security, performance, and compliance checks. Apply GitOps principles for infrastructure and application management. Develop and maintain APIs, web apps, and microservices for scalability and security. Implement API authentication/security (OAuth, JWT, API gateways). Optimize system performance and address bottlenecks. Implement end-to-end observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk, etc. Establish logging, monitoring, and incident response protocols. Conduct chaos engineering exercises to validate resilience. Create and test DR plans to ensure rapid failover. Optimize infrastructure for scalability, cost efficiency, and SLA compliance. Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and API references. Share knowledge through workshops and team sessions.