Cloud Engineer Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of secure, scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Define cloud architecture standards, infrastructure strategies, and best practices aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives, including the transition of on-premises workloads to cloud environments.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Manage cloud networking, compute, storage, databases, identity management, and connectivity across cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure provisioning workflows to improve deployment efficiency.
• Implement cloud security controls, IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure infrastructure reliability and performance.
• Drive cloud cost optimization through resource right-sizing, capacity planning, budgeting, and FinOps practices.
• Design and implement high-availability architectures, disaster recovery strategies, backup solutions, and business continuity plans.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, networking, performance, and deployment issues while leading incident resolution.
• Collaborate with application development, DevOps, SRE, security, and architecture teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.
• Evaluate emerging cloud services and technologies to improve scalability, operational efficiency, security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Lead technical reviews, establish cloud governance policies, and maintain architecture documentation and operational procedures.
• Mentor cloud engineers, review technical implementations, allocate engineering tasks, and support team development.
• Track cloud infrastructure KPIs, service availability, security posture, resource utilization, and project delivery outcomes.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related technical roles, with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong hands-on expertise in at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud architectures for production workloads, including high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Bicep.
• Experience with CI/CD automation, Git-based workflows, configuration management, and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, firewalls, routing, and hybrid-cloud connectivity.
• Knowledge of container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, and modern application deployment architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, secrets management, governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize cloud spending, manage resource utilization, and implement FinOps practices.
• Experience leading cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, automation, and platform reliability initiatives.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical thinking, system design, and technical decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
• Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, are preferred.
• Ability to balance technical execution, team leadership, operational reliability, security, and business priorities.