Cloud Engineer

Senior CloudOps Engineer

Location: Trivandrum, Kerala

Experience: 6+ Years

Work Mode: Hybrid – WFO after conversion

Budget: Up to ₹1.5 Lakhs/Month

We are looking for a Senior CloudOps Engineer to join a newly established Cloud Operations team and drive Azure reliability, governance, security, and cost optimization across production and non-production environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own Azure platform reliability, uptime, and operational readiness

• Lead incident management, RCA, and remediation

• Implement Azure governance using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, tagging, and compliance standards

• Drive FinOps – rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, and cost accountability

• Operate and scale AKS/Kubernetes with focus on performance and cost

• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and structured change management

• Identify and resolve security, access, and configuration drift

• Collaborate with Platform Engineering and Application teams

Must Have:

✅ 6+ years Azure – subscriptions, networking, identity & RBAC

✅ Azure Policy, PIM, governance & security

✅ Strong Cloud Operations / Incident Management / RCA experience

✅ FinOps & Azure cost optimization

✅ Hands-on AKS/Kubernetes Operations

✅ PowerShell / Azure CLI / Python

✅ Azure Monitor, Log Analytics / Datadog

✅ Defender for Cloud & compliance knowledge

✅ General knowledge of Terraform / Bicep / ARM

✅ Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, service connections & permissions

Certifications

AZ-104 / AZ-305 / AZ-140 / AZ-900 or equivalent knowledge

ITIL 4 is a plus.