Cloud & Infrastructure Practice Lead / Solution Architect (IMS)

Cloud & Infrastructure Practice Lead / Solution Architect (IMS)

Location: Hyderabad, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Cloud & Infrastructure AWS / Azure / GCP DevOps & SRE ITIL / ITSM Cybersecurity & Resilience Practice Leadership

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategy, offerings, and roadmap for Tachyon's Cloud & Infrastructure (IMS) practice.
• Own practice-level revenue and P&L targets, working closely with sales and account teams to build and convert
• pipeline.
• Build senior executive relationships with client CIOs and CISOs, and create opportunities that precede formal RFPs,
• not just respond to them.
• Build out team structure and hiring plans, and help recruit, mentor, and retain cloud engineers, DevOps/SRE
• specialists, and architects.
• Develop reusable accelerators, landing zone templates, and reference architectures that differentiate Tachyon in
• client pursuits.
• Define the go-to-market approach and partnerships (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle) that
• strengthen the practice.
• Serve as lead architect for cloud migration, modernization, and managed services engagements across AWS, Azure,
• and GCP.
• Own on-prem, network, and database managed services offerings as part of the practice's overall portfolio.
• Design and oversee ITIL/ITSM managed services offerings, including incident, problem, and change management
• delivery.
• Architect DevOps, SecOps, and SRE solutions, and guide delivery teams on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and
• observability best practices.
• Define infrastructure governance, security, resilience, and on-prem, network, and database service standards
• appropriate to each client's environment.
• Review and approve technical designs across the practice's active engagements, and act as an escalation point for
• complex delivery issues.
• Lead technical discovery with prospective clients to understand current-state infrastructure maturity and define target
• architecture.
• Support proposals, RFP responses, solution estimation, and effort sizing for IMS and Cloud & Infrastructure
• opportunities.
• Run or oversee POCs and technical demonstrations that showcase the practice's capabilities.
• Represent Tachyon in client workshops, architecture reviews, and executive-level conversations with client CTOs,
• CIOs, and infrastructure leadership.
• Coach and upskill architects and engineers within the practice on modern cloud, DevOps, and AIOps technologies.
• Stay current on emerging trends in cloud platforms, DevOps, cybersecurity, and AI-driven infrastructure operations,
• and translate them into practical offerings.
• Contribute to internal training, case studies, and external thought leadership that raises the practice's visibility.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's preferred.
• 12+ years in infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, or IT operations, including some experience leading
• technical teams, owning client accounts, or running a workstream, ideally within an IT services or consulting
• organization.
• A career spanning traditional on-prem, network, and database administration and ITIL/ITSM managed services that
• has since evolved into modern cloud architecture and DevOps/SRE practice.
• Deep hands-on expertise across cloud migration, landing zones, infrastructure as code, containers, and managed
• services delivery.
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and its native infrastructure and
• security services, plus working familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of ITSM/ITIL frameworks and DevOps toolchains (CI/CD, monitoring, automation).
• Hungry to build and own a practice: comfortable with offering development, team building, and growing into revenue
• and P&L accountability rather than having necessarily carried a quota already.
• Strong client-facing skills, including pre-sales and proposal development, with the drive to build toward executive
• relationships with client CTOs, CISOs, or infrastructure leadership.
• Hungry, passionate, and genuinely excited to build something, not just run what already exists, with the intent to grow
• long term with Tachyon rather than treat this as a stepping stone elsewhere.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to cybersecurity and resilience, FinOps and cost optimization, and Zero Trust security architecture.
• Exposure to SRE/AIOps practices and AI-driven infrastructure operations (predictive monitoring, self-healing,
• intelligent automation).
• Cloud or platform certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect
• Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or ITIL v4).
• Experience serving enterprise clients across industries within an IT services model, ideally spanning US, Canada,
• Middle East, or other global markets.
• Experience collaborating with globally distributed delivery organizations across onshore and offshore models.

Technical Skills

• On-prem & data center: Windows/Linux server administration, VMware, storage and network services, SQL Server
• and Oracle database services.
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, compute, storage,
• networking, landing zones, and migration tooling.

• DevOps & SRE: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions),
• monitoring (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Security & resilience: Zero Trust architecture, identity and access management, backup/DR, vulnerability and
• compliance management.
• Service management: ITSM/ITIL v4 practices, incident, problem, and change management, service delivery tooling.