Cloud Engineer

Key Technical Skills Required: • 10+ years of Cloud Infrastructure experience (Azure or Google Cloud). • Experience within the financial industry and/or a highly regulated technology organization. • Expertise in building Cloud services & components using IAC (Infrastructure as Code) • Expertise in building, deploying, and managing cloud services such as Azure APIM, managed Kubernetes services like AKS or GKE, Storage, Azure Function Apps/Google Cloud Functions, data processing services like DAG, Airflow, Google Composer etc. with a focus on High Availability and Scalability. • Expertise in setting up Cloud Monitoring and management tools, experience with incident response and troubleshooting, scripting, and automation skills. • Experienced in implementing information security best practices – using security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk etc. • Experience with Observability/Monitoring technologies like Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitoring etc. • Excellent communication skills. • Adaptable, innovative and stays current in Cloud technologies. • Candidates with relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator, are preferred. Roles and Responsibilities: • Build and manage cloud infrastructure, services and applications using automation. • Build, deploy and manage Highly Available and Scalable cloud services such as Azure APIM, managed Kubernetes services like AKS or GKE, Storage, Azure Function Apps/Google Cloud Functions, data processing services like DAG, Airflow, Google Composer etc. • Ensure continuous monitoring of cloud resources, respond to incidents and outages adhering to SLA(s), automating operational tasks, managing backups and disaster recovery plans, and ensuring high availability. • Manage, maintain, and monitor different infrastructure components (servers, network, applications). • Provide hands-on technical expertise during service impacting events. • Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements and measure, tune and optimize system performance. • Adhere to security and regulatory best practices involving cloud deployments – implement recommendations from security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk etc. • Troubleshoot and remediate issues impacting the operation of the overall infrastructure. • Automate routine systems tasks and processes using PowerShell or similar tools. • Maintain security, backup, and redundancy of the enterprise environment. • Build and maintain “playbooks” and other supporting documentation. • Collaborate with team members to perform regular system audit and security reviews. • Managing projects/processes, working independently with limited supervision. • Participate in periodic 24x7 on-call duties. • Other duties as assigned.