Hosting Architect

Job Overview:

The Hosting Architect will lead Fortreas enterprise transition from on premises datacenters to Hyperscaler delivering a modern resilient and automated hosting platform that accelerates application delivery and business innovation. This role owns the target state Azure and hybrid hosting architecture governs large scale cloud migration and modernizes operations through automation Infrastructure as Code and AI driven operations. The objective is to increase speed to market reduce operational friction improve resiliency and lower total cost of ownership. This is a hands-on senior architecture role with accountability for measurable business and operational outcomes operating in a regulated enterprise environment.

Summary of Responsibilities:

Cloud Migration & Hybrid Architecture

• Define and own Fortreas targetstate Cloud hosting architecture aligned to business and technology strategy.
• Design and govern hybrid architectures during phased migration from onpremises to Cloud.
• Lead workload migration strategies (rehost replatform refactor retire) to balance speed risk and value.
• Act as the architectural authority for hosting and Cloud migration decisions.

Cloud Platform & CloudNative Enablement

• Architect Cloud platforms including landing zones identity networking security HA and DR.
• Establish standardised Cloud reference architectures and blueprints to accelerate application onboarding.
• Enable selfservice repeatable platforms that reduce delivery lead time for application and product teams.
• Drive adoption of cloudnative services to simplify operations and improve scalability and cost efficiency.

Automation IaC & AILed Operations

• Implement an automationfirst operating model across hybrid and Cloud environments.
• Build and govern InfrastructureasCode using Terraform ARM/Bicep PowerShell Python or Ansible.
• Introduce AIOps and intelligent automation for predictive monitoring selfhealing and faster incident resolution.
• Reduce environment provisioning time manual effort and operational cost through standardisation and automation.

Operational Excellence Resilience & Governance

• Embed resiliency observability and reliability engineering into all hosting designs.
• Improve platform availability reduce incidents and optimise recovery objectives (RTO/RPO).
• Ensure hosting platforms meet security audit and regulatory requirements.
• Provide architectural leadership across infrastructure application security and compliance teams.

Value & Outcomes

The Hosting Architect is accountable for delivering:

• Faster and safer Cloud migration at enterprise scale.
• Reduced timetoprovision and change lead times for applications.
• Improved platform reliability availability and recovery performance.
• Measurable reduction in hosting OPEX through automation and cloud optimisation.
• Hosting platforms that accelerate business capability delivery not constrain it.

Qualifications (Minimum Required):

• Bachelors degree in computer science Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Excellent communication and public speaking skills with the ability to present complex architectural concepts to senior leadership technical teams and nontechnical stakeholders.

Required skills (Minimum Required):

Core Experience

• 10 years in hosting infrastructure or cloud architecture roles.
• Proven leadership of largescale Cloud migration programs.
• Strong foundation in enterprise datacentre technologies and hybrid architectures.

Cloud & Cloud Expertise

• Deep handson experience with Cloud compute networking storage identity and security.
• Experience designing hybrid connectivity and phased migration strategies.
• Cloud architecture and/or security certifications preferred.

Automation & AI

• Strong experience with InfrastructureasCode and scripting.
• Exposure to AIOps or intelligent automation platforms.
• Demonstrated success in reducing operational effort and cost through automation.

Professional Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholderinfluencing skills.
• Comfortable operating in complex regulated enterprise environments.
• Outcomedriven mindset with a focus on business value and execution speed.

Preferred Qualifications Include:

• Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent professional experience in lieu of formal educational requirements.

Physical Demands / Work Environment:

• Remote-Based as requested by the line manager

• Work Timings: 2:00 PM IST to 11.00 PM IST

• Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.

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