Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

Role: Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, India (Hybrid)

Department: Product Development

The Senior Cloud Engineer leads the design, implementation, and operations of the organization's cloud infrastructure. This role is responsible for complex projects, high-level architectural planning, and making strategic technology decisions that support scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization. Acting as a technical leader, the Senior Cloud Engineer provides mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers while driving innovation, resiliency, and compliance in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native architectures and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Oversee cloud engineering projects, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, and cost-effective.
• Contribute to high-level architectural planning and strategic decision-making around technology adoption.
• Review and approve design proposals, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates, and automation workflows.
• Identify risks in design and implementation plans and develop mitigation strategies.
• Oversee the management of cloud resources across multiple platforms and environments.
• Lead performance tuning, scaling strategies, and cost optimization efforts.
• Make strategic decisions regarding upgrades, cloud service adoption, and configuration changes.
• Ensure adherence to operational standards, SLAs, and governance policies.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex, high-impact issues across cloud platforms.
• Oversee incident response and problem resolution by guiding junior and mid-level engineers.
• Develop and implement proactive strategies to reduce recurring issues and increase platform reliability.
• Serve as the final escalation point for cloud-related technical problems.
• Lead cloud security initiatives, including IAM strategy, data encryption, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Oversee vulnerability management and implement security automation in cloud environments.
• Ensure compliance with industry frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, or NIST.
• Develop strategies to improve security posture and enforce governance across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead cloud disaster recovery and continuity planning efforts across critical workloads.
• Conduct advanced risk assessments, failover testing, and recovery exercises.
• Make strategic decisions about resilience design, including multi-region, high availability, and backup solutions.
• Drive improvements to disaster recovery strategies to align with evolving business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or IT infrastructure, with increasing technical leadership responsibilities.
• Deep expertise with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and familiarity with multi-cloud environments.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation tools (e.g., GitHub/GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines).
• Advanced knowledge of networking, container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/ECS), and operating systems.
• Hands-on experience with VMware virtualization (vSphere/ESXi) including vSAN-based hyperconverged storage design, deployment, and operations.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V failover clustering using Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) for hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Proven experience with cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks.
• Demonstrated leadership, mentorship, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and strategic thinking abilities.

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