Cloud Engineer / Solutions Architect – DevOps & IT

Location: Chennai, In Office

Experience: 3-5 Years

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Engineer / Solutions Architect with 3-5 years of experience to own our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and overall IT environment. The ideal candidate will design and operate workloads across both AWS and Azure, build and maintain deployment pipelines for multiple products, and act as the go-to person in the team for anything infrastructure, networking, or IT-related. This is a broad, ownership-heavy role combining solutions architecture, DevOps engineering, and internal IT support.

Key Responsibilities

· Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure across both AWS and Azure including compute, storage, networking, databases, identity, and managed services.

· Act as solutions architect for new initiatives like translate product and business requirements into well-architected cloud designs covering scalability, security, availability, and cost.

· Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for multiple products using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps Pipelines.

· Containerize applications using Docker and manage orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS / AKS) or equivalent managed services.

· Define and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, or similar tools.

· Set up and operate observability logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing, using tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.

· Own cloud and application security IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, vulnerability scanning, patching, and adherence to best practices.

· Serve as the primary point of contact for the CISO / external security team, coordinate VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing) cycles, ISO 27001 and similar certification audits, security questionnaires, and remediation of findings.

· Manage office and product networking, VPNs, firewalls, DNS, SSL/TLS certificates, domain management, and connectivity between cloud and on-prem environments.

· Plan and execute backups, disaster recovery, and business continuity procedures across cloud workloads.

· Monitor and optimize cloud spend across AWS and Azure right-sizing, reserved capacity, and cost reporting.

· Collaborate closely with the Lead Developer, QA, and Product teams on release planning, environment management, and production rollouts.

· Document architecture, runbooks, incident response procedures, and IT policies in Confluence or equivalent.

· Respond to production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and drive preventive improvements.

Required Technical Skills

· 3–5 years of hands-on experience as a Cloud / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer, with proven exposure to both AWS and Azure in production environments.

· Strong hands-on with core AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, ECS/EKS) and Azure services (VMs, Storage, App Service, AKS, Azure SQL, VNet, Entra ID/Azure AD, Key Vault).

· Solid experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for multi-service, multi-environment deployments.

· Hands-on with Docker and at least one orchestration platform (Kubernetes, ECS, or AKS).

· Proficient with Infrastructure as Code , Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure ARM/Bicep.

· Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and tooling.

· Good understanding of networking fundamentals , TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, VPN, firewalls, load balancers, and cloud networking constructs (VPC/VNet, subnets, security groups, NSGs).

· Working knowledge of Linux system administration and basic Windows server administration.

· Experience with monitoring and logging stacks , CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.

· Familiarity with cloud security best practices, IAM design, and tools such as AWS Config, GuardDuty, Azure Defender, or equivalent.

· Experience coordinating VAPT engagements, supporting ISO 27001 / SOC 2 audits, and tracking security findings through to remediation.

· Comfortable administering common SaaS tools used by the team , Google Workspace / Microsoft 365, Jira, Confluence, GitHub/GitLab, and identity providers (Okta, Entra ID).

Preferred Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, or a related field.

· Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent.

· Experience with message queues and event-driven architectures (SQS/SNS, Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ).

· Exposure to GCP or hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

· Experience supporting regulated or enterprise customers with audit, compliance, and security review requirements.

· Interest or experience using GenAI / LLM tools to accelerate DevOps and IT workflows.

What We're Looking For

· Strong ownership mindset , treats infrastructure, pipelines, and IT as a product, not a ticket queue.

· Broad generalist comfort , happy switching between cloud architecture, pipeline debugging, and helping a teammate fix their laptop on the same day.

· Sharp troubleshooting skills across networking, infrastructure, and application layers.

· Excellent documentation habits and proactive communication.

· Comfortable being the team's first port of call for IT and infrastructure questions.

· Bias for automation , prefers writing scripts and IaC over repeating manual work.

Contact

Haridass

Email: [Confidential Information]

Phone: 8012805474

Gopalakrishnan

Email: [HIDDEN TEXT]

Phone: 9361600681