What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Architect position at Virtusa?
The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect leads the Infrastructure Optimization agenda. Working closely with the Infrastructure leadership team, this role architects and drives cost-reduction initiatives across portfolio teams. 10 years of total IT experience, including 5 years as a cloud/infrastructure architect or senior engineer, backed by the ability to influence and align multiple engineering teams and senior leadership on cross-portfolio initiatives. Define and drive the infrastructure optimization strategy and roadmap, partnering with Infrastructure leadership, portfolio teams, and Finance. Review EC2 utilization across portfolios and lead right-sizing recommendations and implementations. Define and enforce non-prod environment standards, including migrating/mandating EC2 workloads in non-prod to cost-efficient options (e.g., Spot, scheduled shutdown, ephemeral environments). Baseline EC2 usage and recommend AWS Savings Plans / Reserved Instance purchases to maximize coverage and minimize waste. Plan and coordinate EKS upgrades across teams to avoid EKS extended support charges. Build cost visibility, tagging, showback/chargeback, and dashboards to track spend, savings, and unit economics. Quantify the impact of right-sizing and optimization initiatives, and take ownership of implementations. Produce architecture standards, specifications, and automation (IaC) that embed cost-efficiency into the development lifecycle. Mentor engineers and influence senior stakeholders on cost-aware architecture decisions. Deep hands-on experience with AWS at enterprise scale, specifically EC2, EKS, VPC, EBS/S3, IAM, and Auto Scaling. Proven track record of reducing cloud spend through EC2 right-sizing, Savings Plans/Reserved Instances/Spot strategy, and non-prod environment optimization. Working knowledge of FinOps practices including tagging strategy, showback/chargeback, unit economics, budgets, and anomaly detection.Extensive Kubernetes/EKS experience including cluster lifecycle management, upgrade planning, node autoscaling (Karpenter/Cluster Autoscaler), and bin-packing/cost allocation. Hands-on experience with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation, along with CI/CD automation.