Shape the Future of Cloud & Capacity Services as a Solution Architect

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Join us as a Solution Architect – Cloud & Capacity and play a key role in ensuring reliable, scalable, and cost-conscious cloud and infrastructure services across India and Asia. In this senior individual-contributor role, you will combine architecture expertise with service delivery ownership, translating business needs into practical solutions while driving operational excellence throughout the service lifecycle. You will work across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and hybrid infrastructure environments, collaborating with regional stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and external providers to support business-critical services and transformation initiatives. This is an opportunity to directly influence reliability, performance, capacity, and efficiency across a complex technology landscape.

Your responsibilities

• Lead platform and service architecture across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Manage the full service lifecycle, balancing availability, performance, security, scalability, and cost.
• Oversee service delivery and supplier performance, ensuring agreed SLAs and KPIs are achieved.
• Coordinate incident, problem, and change management activities with internal teams and service providers.
• Drive capacity and performance management through forecasting, demand planning, right-sizing, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with security and global teams to align cloud governance and security controls with established standards.
• Strengthen backup, recovery, and disaster recovery readiness across assigned services.
• Promote FinOps practices, automation, and cost optimization initiatives across Azure, AWS, and capacity services.
• Coordinate and support cloud and infrastructure migration projects, including planning, testing, cutover preparation, and operational handover.
• Collaborate with regional and global stakeholders to manage schedules, risks, dependencies, documentation, and service readiness.

Expectations from you

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 8 years of infrastructure experience.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Ability to manage architecture and service delivery responsibilities across both cloud platforms.
• Solid understanding of hybrid infrastructure, compute, virtualization, storage, backup, and capacity/performance management.
• Experience in solution architecture and service delivery management.
• Proven experience with service-level management, operational improvement, and supplier coordination.
• Experience coordinating and supporting infrastructure migrations and projects.
• Advanced English communication skills and the ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, global teams, and external providers.
• Experience with both Azure and AWS, Infrastructure as Code, automation, FinOps practices, ITIL, or cloud certifications is considered an advantage.

To succeed in this role

Success in this role comes from your ability to combine strong cloud architecture expertise with disciplined service delivery ownership. You focus on ensuring reliability, capacity, security, and cost efficiency across Azure, AWS, and hybrid infrastructure environments while effectively coordinating stakeholders, suppliers, and project activities. Your experience in infrastructure operations, migrations, and continuous service improvement enables you to make a measurable impact across India and Asia.

We also expect you to align with Valmet’s Leadership Principles—practical behaviors that guide how we lead, collaborate, and succeed together:

• Take accountability – Act with ownership, set clear expectations, and follow through
• Lead with courage – Champion change, try bold ideas, and learn quickly
• Build on trust – Listen to understand, be open, and create psychological safety
• Collaborate for growth – Work across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and focus on customer value

We offer

In this role, you will join an environment where cloud architecture, service delivery, and infrastructure transformation come together. You will work closely with regional stakeholders, IT Infrastructure teams, and external service providers to maintain and enhance critical cloud and capacity services across India and Asia. The role offers meaningful ownership spanning architecture, operations, governance, capacity planning, cost optimization, and migration initiatives. You will have the opportunity to influence key technology decisions while supporting reliable and efficient services that enable business success. Working across Azure, AWS, and hybrid infrastructure, you will contribute to both day-to-day operational excellence and long-term service development.

Valmet offers an inspiring and challenging position with opportunities to contribute to international operations and work with modern technologies. We value continuous learning, collaboration, and professional development while providing an environment where people can grow their expertise and make a meaningful impact.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. We work together with our customers throughout the entire lifecycle, delivering cutting-edge technologies and services as well as mission-critical automation and flow control solutions. Backed by more than 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of over 19,000 professionals close to customers; we are uniquely positioned to transform industries toward a regenerative tomorrow.

At Valmet, diversity of thought drives innovation. We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment, where people can be themselves and are supported to contribute at their best. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential, never on personal characteristics such as gender, gender identity, age, ethnicity, nationality, disability, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, or political views.

Join the team – and lead the way with us!

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