Role Overview: The Cloud/Devops SME serves as the authoritative subject matter expert for enterprise cloud infrastructure, CI/CD release engineering, container orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This strategic role guides multi-cloud environments, enforces cloud security and governance standards, drives site reliability practice

Key Responsibilities & Infrastructure Leadership

Design, build, and optimize enterprise multi-cloud architectures across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP utilizing well-architected cloud frameworks.
Author modular, reusable, and production-tested Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates utilizing Terraform, OpenTofu, Bicep, and CloudFormation.
Architect and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS/GKE), defining ingress controllers, service meshes (Istio), and autoscaling rules.
Design enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions, incorporating automated unit tests, SAST/DAST, and release gates.
Implement comprehensive cloud observability, centralizing metrics, distributed tracing, and log aggregation via Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and ELK.
Enforce strict cloud security policies, IAM least privilege access, network isolation (VNet/VPC peering, Private Endpoints), and secret encryption.
Direct FinOps practices, analyzing cloud cost allocation, sizing compute workloads, implementing auto-shutdowns, and optimizing cloud expenditures.

Architectural Governance & Operational Resilience

Formulate organizational standards for disaster recovery (DR), automated cross-region failover, backup verification, and business continuity.
Oversee vulnerability management, container scanning (Trivy/Snyk), compliance auditing, and adherence to CIS benchmarks and SOC2 standards.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure degradation, network latency, DNS anomalies, and container crashes across production clusters.

Stakeholder Enablement & Team Collaboration

Advise engineering leads and architects on cloud native design patterns, serverless paradigms, distributed messaging, and decoupled services.
Mentor development teams in modern GitOps delivery methodologies (ArgoCD/Flux), cloud engineering principles, and shift-left testing.
Partner with IT security, compliance, and governance bodies to ensure consistent cloud landing zone policies and automated guardrails.

Systems Architect