Experience required: 5-10 Yrs
Skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud Architecture, GCP, Kubernetes, Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Go, VPC, DNS, Load Balancing, Microservices, GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform, Python, Cloud Networking, Bash, Jenkins, Linux, IAM, RBAC, GitLab CI, Ansible, CI/CD, Secrets Management, ArgoCD, Helm, Firewalls

Role & responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Platform Engineers, and SREs.
Define and execute the organizations cloud strategy, architecture, and engineering roadmap.
Design and maintain scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Drive cloud adoption, migration, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
Establish Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies.
Lead the design and operation of Kubernetes and containerized cloud environments.
Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps pipelines for automated application and infrastructure delivery.
Establish cloud security, IAM, networking, governance, compliance, and access-control standards.
Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives while maintaining performance and reliability.
Define and implement monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and incident-management practices.
Establish and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience strategies.
Partner with Software Engineering, Security, Data, Architecture, Product, and Finance teams on cloud initiatives.
Review and approve cloud architecture, infrastructure designs, technology choices, and engineering standards.
Lead resolution of critical infrastructure incidents and drive root-cause analysis and preventive improvements.
Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, deployments, scaling, and operational processes.
Evaluate new cloud services and technologies and assess their technical and business value.
Monitor cloud platform performance, capacity, availability, security, and cost metrics.
Mentor engineers, support career development, and establish a culture of automation, reliability, security, and engineering excellence.
Manage cloud engineering projects, budgets, vendors, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies.

Preferred candidate profile

5 to 10 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, or related fields, including technical/team leadership experience.
Strong expertise in at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP; multi-cloud experience is an advantage.
Deep hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code.
Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, compute, storage, databases, load balancing, DNS, IAM, and security.
Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and production-grade cloud environments.
Strong knowledge of CI/CD, GitOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or equivalent technologies.
Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting/programming languages for automation.
Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, API gateways, service mesh, containers, and system design.
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent observability tools.
Strong knowledge of SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Experience with cloud security, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, compliance, and governance.
Strong understanding of cloud cost management, FinOps, resource optimization, and capacity planning.
Experience leading cloud migrations, application modernization, or large-scale infrastructure transformation is highly desirable.
Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop Cloud/DevOps/Platform/SRE teams.
Strong system-design, problem-solving, communication, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to balance performance, reliability, security, scalability, developer experience, and cloud cost.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; Master's degree is a plus.
Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKS, or Terraform are advantageous.
Role: Engineering Manager
Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Software Development
Education
UG: B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Information Technology