Lead DevOps Architect

Under Armour India

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

10 days ago
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About Under Armour IndiaWe have expanded our global footprint with Under Armour India, a strategic capability hub in Bengaluru, designed to strengthen our global operations and accelerate innovation.Here, we enable athletes’ digital journeys with tech solutions they never knew they needed and can’t imagine living without. Our teams drive products from conceptualization to production, with a strong focus on consumer engagement and retail store experience.We combine art and technology with the athletes’ world of performance, sport, and fitness—working with the latest technologies across platforms.Job DescriptionPURPOSE OF ROLE:The Lead DevOps Architect - Cloud is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and driving the architectural vision for our AWS cloud platform, DevOps practices, and engineering delivery capabilities. This is not solely a hands-on engineering role it is a position of strategic technical influence, requiring the ability to operate at both the architectural level and the organizational level to effect lasting, meaningful change across our engineering teams. In an e-commerce and retail context, the stakes of infrastructure architecture decisions are exceptionally high. Platform availability, page load performance, checkout reliability, and the ability to scale through peak trading periods all flow directly from the quality of our cloud architecture. The Lead DevOps Architect - Cloud will own the technical strategy that underpins these capabilities, ensuring our AWS platform is resilient, secure, cost-efficient, and positioned to support the company's growth objectives This works in close partnership with the CISO, Director of Global Infrastructure, Head of Platform Engineering, and senior engineering leadership across the organization. It carries significant visibility and influence at the executive level and is expected to serve as the definitive internal authority on cloud and DevOps architecture.YOUR IMPACT (Job Responsibilities):

Define and own the architectural vision for our AWS cloud platform, DevOps toolchain, and engineering delivery practices across the organization
Lead the design of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems that meet the demands of a high-volume retail and e-commerce environment
Establish and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards, CI/CD pipeline patterns, and platform engineering best practices across all engineering teams
Evaluate and introduce new technologies, architectural patterns, and tooling to continuously advance the capability and maturity of our platform
Partner with engineering leadership, security, finance, and product teams to align infrastructure strategy with organizational and commercial objectives
Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and career development support to DevOps and platform engineers across the organization
Lead cloud migration, modernization, and re-architecture initiatives, including the transition of legacy retail systems to cloud-native architectures
Define and drive SLOs, SLAs, and error budget policies, embedding a culture of reliability and measurable service quality across engineering
Own disaster recovery, business continuity, and multi-region resilience strategies, with particular focus on protecting revenue during peak retail events
Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling sessions, and cloud cost optimization analyses, and present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders
Represent the engineering organization in vendor relationships with AWS, HashiCorp, and other strategic platform partners

QUALIFICATIONS:

8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering, with at least 3 years in an architect or senior technical lead capacity
Deep, demonstrable expertise in AWS across a broad range of services including EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, and Control Tower
Strong command of Terraform and/or OpenTofu for large-scale infrastructure-as-code, including module design, state management strategy, and governance at the enterprise level
Proven experience designing and operating Kubernetes clusters at scale, with EKS preferred
Expertise in CI/CD architecture using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent platforms, including trunk-based development, feature flagging, and progressive delivery patterns
Deep knowledge of cloud security principles including IAM least-privilege design, network segmentation, encryption standards, and compliance frameworks relevant to retail (PCI-DSS, SOC 2)
Experience with the HashiCorp ecosystem including Vault, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, and Consul and\or Secrets manager
Strong observability and reliability engineering background using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing platforms
Demonstrated ability to influence, align, and inspire cross-functional engineering teams around complex architectural decisions
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical strategy to executive and non-technical audiences
On call duties as needed

Nice to Have:

Familiarity with Fastly, Signal Sciences, Cloudflare, or other CDN and edge security platforms relevant to retail commerce
Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost governance frameworks
Background in platform engineering and internal developer portal design using Backstage or similar tooling
AWS certifications including Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional

WORKPLACE LOCATION:

Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from ouroffice.
Work Schedule:This role follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring 4 days in-office per week

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY:At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, family or paternal status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour seeks to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people representing a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request.

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