As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will play a critical role in our Engineering team, driving the design and implementation of scalable, enterprise-grade cloud solutions that power next-generation retail platforms.
Responsibilities include:
- Creating a well-informed cloud strategy and managing the adaptation process
- Evaluating cloud applications, hardware and software
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Build effective monitoring and alerts for the Production and non-productions deployments
- Plan deployments using Blue-Green switch with Zero downtime
- Perform Emergency hot fixes as and when required
- Perform routine security patching of the OS, VMs and other software components
- Perform security hardening of the computing & networking infrastructure
- Plan effectively for Disaster Recovery
- Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Plan is up-to-date and orchestrate periodic DR testing
- Perform automatic backup / restore of production database
- Use best practices in DevOps for build, deploy and monitoring in a cost-effective manner
- Monitor production systems for any outages, performance degradation or errors / exception
- Ensure VAPT gets executed on an annual basis and any issues related to the deployment infrastructure are timely addressed
- Provide inputs on performance appraisal for the team members
- Keep an eye on evolving DevOps best practices in the industry and plan for their adoption
- Adopt Industry Best practices in DevOps
Certifications:
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- AWS Certified Solution Architect
- GCP Certified Cloud Architect
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Azure training and certifications
Primary Skills:
- Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps or BitBucket Pipelines
- Expertise in Containerization using Docker and Container orchestration using Kubernetes
- Excellent command over Source Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab etc.
- Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.
- Expertise in maintaining infrastructure components in a multi data center setup
- Expertise in at least 2 public cloud systems
- Certification in at least 1 public cloud system
- Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.
Secondary Skills:
- Minimum 7 years of DevOps experience, preferably in a Software product company.
- Graduate or Postgraduate in Engineering / Computer Applications
- Has familiarity with the retail industry domain
- Expertise in more than one cloud provider like Azure, AWS etc
- Desire to work on complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.
- Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.
