Architect - Platform
Sanas
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted 6+ months ago
Sanas is revolutionizing the way we communicate with the world’s first real-time algorithm, designed to modulate accents, eliminate background noises, and magnify speech clarity. Pioneered by seasoned startup founders with a proven track record of creating and steering multiple unicorn companies, our groundbreaking GDP-shifting technology sets a gold standard.
Sanas is a 200-strong team, established in 2020. In this short span, we’ve successfully secured over $100 million in funding. Our innovation have been supported by the industry’s leading investors, including Insight Partners, Google Ventures, Quadrille Capital, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, and other influential investors. Our reputation is further solidified by collaborations with numerous Fortune 100 companies. With Sanas, you’re not just adopting a product; you’re investing in the future of communication.
We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Cloud, DevOps or a Platform Architect to lead the design, optimization and scaling of the infrastructure supporting Sanas’ real-time, AI and ML-driven SaaS platform.
This is a deeply technical individual contributor role. You will be responsible for the architecture of cloud, colo and platform systems, encompassing compute, storage, networking, CI/CD, security, databases and cost optimization. You will collaborate closely with the Engineering, Science, Machine learning, InfoSec and Product teams to develop secure, cost-effective and high-performing systems that will drive Sanas’ rapid growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architectural Design & Strategy:
- Design scalable, resilient and secure infrastructure for enterprise SaaS, ML and real-time workloads.
- Architect disaster recovery and high availability solutions to ensure business continuity for mission-critical workloads.
- Develop governance frameworks for multi-account environments ensuring secure resource isolation and cost accountability.
- Anticipate growth and design for high throughput, low latency and scalable infrastructure through capacity planning.
- Continuously assess and introduce emerging technologies to enhance platform efficiency, reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with product, science, machine learning and engineering stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with company goals.
- Platform & Operations:
- Drive adoption and enforce standards for Terraform based infrastructure management.
- Architect robust CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Spinnaker and Azure DevOps for rapid, reliable software delivery.
- Build and evolve EC2, Kubernetes based (EKS) platforms with Docker and ECR for microservices.
- Define SLOs/SLIs for key systems and design comprehensive monitoring (New Relic, CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK/EFK) and incident response strategies to meet SLO/SLAs.
- Implement strong IAM practices, WAF, VPC and governance frameworks to ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO 27001 and other regulatory requirements.
- Architect storage solutions (EFS, S3, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, ClickHouse) and optimize data pipelines.
- Build and maintain internal developer platforms to improve engineering productivity and streamline deployments.
- Work with ML and Engineering teams to support GPU-based training environments and hybrid (cloud + COLO) compute.
- Financial & Documentation:
- Lead cost governance and optimization strategies across AWS accounts balancing performance with efficiency.
- Create architecture blueprints, operational runbooks and best practices for system management and scaling.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience: 7+ years in Cloud, DevOps, SRE or Platform roles with at least 3 years in a senior or an architect position.
- AWS Expertise: Expert-level proficiency with AWS including multi-account setup, networking, IAM, security and cost governance.
- Infrastructure as Code: Expertise in Terraform.
- CI/CD & Container Orchestration: Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
- Scripting & Automation: Strong command of Python, Shell and bash scripting for automation.
- Cloud Fundamentals: Deep knowledge of networking, security, compute, storage and governance within enterprise cloud environments.
- FinOps: Strong FinOps skills and a proven track record of cost optimization in large-scale infrastructures.
- Microservices: Strong knowledge working with microservices architecture and API management (e.g., API Gateway, CloudFront).
- Observability: Experience managing observability and alerting platforms (e.g., New Relic, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/EFK, Prometheus).
- System Design: Experience designing for SLO/SLIs, disaster recovery, and high-availability systems.
- Event-Driven Architectures: Background in Kafka, SQS and distributed event-driven architectures.
- Advanced Security: Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and advanced cloud security best practices.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across Engineering, Science, ML and Product teams.
Desired Qualifications:
- Multi-Cloud Experience: Experience with Azure cloud or GCP (familiarity is an advantage).
- ML Infrastructure: Exposure to ML infrastructure tools (e.g., Dagster, Ray, Weights & Biases).
- Datacenter Management: Experience managing COLO datacenters for GPU compute (servers, switches, firewalls, storage).
- Cloud Certifications: Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer).
Glimpse of Sanas Tech Stack:
- Our core technologies include but not limited to:
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, ECR, VPC, S3, EFS, CloudFront, Lambda, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Route 53, WAF etc), Azure (MS Entra, App insights, Webapps, proxies, VNets etc)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): TerraformCI/CD: GitLab, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
- Programming & Scripting: Python, Shell, Golang, Bash
- Networking & Security: VPC, API Gateway, WAF, IAM, DNS management
- Observability: New Relic, CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK/EFK
Why Sanas?
- Join us to shape the future of voice and communication, enabling seamless global conversations for enterprises, agents and customers. In this high-impact role, you will:
- Serve as the technical authority on platform, colo and cloud architecture for systems used by Fortune 100 clients.
- Tackle complex challenges at the intersection of ML, DevOps and distributed systems.
- Collaborate with world class engineers, researchers and product teams.
- Benefit from competitive compensation, equity options and clear career growth paths.
Joining us means contributing to the world’s first real-time speech understanding platform revolutionizing Contact Centers and Enterprises alike.
Our technology empowers agents, transforms customer experiences, and drives measurable growth. But this is just the beginning. You'll be part of a team exploring the vast potential of an increasingly sonic future
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