As a Senior Engineering Leader, Cloud & DevOps, you will:
- Strategize, design, and implement highly efficient solutions on Public Cloud (Amazon Web Services, Azure, or GCP) focusing on security, resilience, performance, networking, availability, and Blue-green deployments in the context of business applications.
- Understand and recommend the right Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS) for specific solutions/business applications.
- Conduct security hardening of cloud infrastructure, application, and web servers against known/unknown vulnerabilities.
- Possess expertise in Capacity Planning Design, cost, and effort estimations.
- Have experience in cloud comparison & recommendation.
- Demonstrate experience in Cloud (Public & Private) cost optimization.
- Leverage CI (Continuous Integration) best practices and tooling of Azure, AWS, or Google.
- Understand compliance, safe harbor, and the law of the land.
- Design for failover, high availability, MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), MTTF (Mean Time To Failure), and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures).
- Design and set up automated backup and restoration of application/web servers/databases/data lakes to object storage like S3.
- Write infrastructure as code for public or private clouds and implement modern cloud Integration architecture using:
- Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)
- SCM (Source Code Management) (TFS or GIT)
- CI tools (Jenkins or Bamboo)
- Azure Resource Manager, Cloud Formation, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager
- Scripting languages: Python, Bash, and Shell
- Container services like ECS, ACS, GCE, or Kubernetes
- Architect and implement end-to-end monitoring solutions in the cloud (Nagios, Zabbix, AppD, CWatch, etc.) including billing.
- Possess a strong understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
- Design and implement software engineering processes to improve efficiency.
- Implement a shift-left strategy.
- Monitor application, systems, and infrastructure health.
- Report on business and process metrics.
- Balance governance, ownership, and freedom against reliability.
- Evaluate the undifferentiated heavy lifting of operating in-house solutions versus adopting cloud-native services.
- Deliver best-in-class operations tooling & practices, including CI, CD, and ChatOps.
- Work closely with Security Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) teams.
- Develop, motivate, empower, and evaluate individual contributors, fostering their professional, leadership, and technical skills.
Qualifications
Your Skills & Experience
- Overall Experience:12+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Middleware Administration, and Cloud.
- Cloud Expertise:5+ years of working in the Cloud (Public & Private) with extensive knowledge of one or more Public Clouds.
- Delivery Experience: Proven experience in solutioning, implementing, or migrating a large CMS/E-commerce/Enterprise workload to Public Cloud.
- Technical Breadth: Knowledge of emerging technologies, various platforms, tools, and products, and their respective applications.
- Client Engagement: Experience working in a client-facing role or at a client location.
- Industry Awareness: Awareness of industry trends and directions and their impact on IT services.
- Delivery Management: Comprehensive knowledge of delivery management, various delivery models, etc.
- Leadership Skills: Strong delivery, stakeholder, and client management capabilities.
- Education: Full-time Bachelor's/Master's degree (Science or Engineering preferred).
Projects this role will support
- Large Digital Platforms
- E-commerce/retail
- Banking/financial applications & Enterprise applications
- Will be a part of the CoE (Center of Excellence), which caters to various delivery projects across geography.
- Pre-sales & SWAT Team activities.
