Cloud Engineer - Terraform/CloudFormation

Key Responsibilities:

• Provision, manage, and support GCP sandbox environments for testing and development.
• Ensure sandbox governance, security, and compliance with Citi policies.
• Engage with Google Cloud and AWS support teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Ensure sandbox isolation from production workloads and enforce resource lifecycle management (deletion/suspension of unused resources).
• Onboard Citi teams and developers to new or existing AWS/GCP accounts.
• Manage user access for single/multiple cloud accounts, ensuring least privilege access.
• Assign and audit IAM roles and permissions for security and compliance.
• Remove user access to specific accounts as needed.
• Configure real-time alerts for sandbox activities and send notifications to Citi Sandbox Email Distribution Lists.
• Set up budget alerts (soft and hard limits) to prevent overspending.
• Monitor security incidents, unauthorized access attempts, and anomalies.
• Implement cost tracking mechanisms and automate resource cleanup to prevent cost overruns.
• Implement GCP/AWS cost control measures such as budgets, quotas, and auto-scaling.
• Track spending patterns and optimize resource allocation.
• Ensure compliance with financial industry regulations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Conduct periodic security and cost audits.
• Automate cloud operations using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Deployment Manager.
• Use Python and Bash scripting for process automation and cost/resource optimization.