Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Key Responsibilities
Cloud Architecture & Engineering: Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and operational management of scalable, resilient, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure, with secondary support for Azure environments.

Automation & IaC: Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, patching, and deployments.

Migration & Modernization: Architect and execute enterprise cloud migration, application modernization, and continuous platform optimization strategies.

Platform & Reusability: Design and maintain standardized, reusable cloud platform templates and enterprise landing zones to accelerate secure team onboarding.

Operations & Governance: Establish enterprise cloud security standards, IAM best practices, compliance controls, governance policies, and operational workflows.

Disaster Recovery & Continuity: Design and implement comprehensive backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions across cloud workloads.

Troubleshooting & RCA: Resolve complex cloud networking, infrastructure, and application integration issues; perform root-cause analysis with a high sense of urgency and ownership.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Mentor junior cloud engineers, provide technical guidance across projects, and partner closely with DevOps, Security, Networking, and Application teams.

Qualifications
Overall IT Experience: 7+ years of broad IT background spanning systems architecture, infrastructure management, operating systems, databases, enterprise applications, and hybrid networking.

Hands-on Cloud Experience: 5+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure and applications.

AWS Expertise: Deep knowledge of core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SSM, RDS, Lambda, and container services (ECS/EKS).

Multi-Cloud Familiarity: Practical working knowledge of Azure services, including Virtual Machines, VNETs, Azure Storage, IAM, and Azure Backup.

Scripting & CI/CD: Strong automation capabilities using PowerShell, Python, or Bash, along with experience managing Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines.

Networking & Security: Solid understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, VPNs, firewalls, hybrid cloud connectivity, secrets management, and cloud security compliance controls.

Containers & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with containerization technologies and platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes.

Soft Skills: Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, a self-motivated drive to work independently or in an integrated team environment, and strong problem-solving skills under tight SLAs.