About the role
Key Responsibilities:
Must Have:
- Lead and mentor the cloud operations team by providing technical guidance, support, and direction.
- Manage and oversee AWS cloud operations including patching, migrations, upgrades, backups, releases, and production support.
- Work with key AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Elastic cache, Lambda, S3, Amazon MQ, EKS, ECR, ALB, CloudWatch, VPC, IAM, AWS Config, and others.
- Drive automation initiatives using Python or Golang to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and support GitOps practices.
- Oversee security operations including vulnerability identification, analysis, remediation, and compliance support.
- Contribute to SecOps initiatives by identifying, analyzing, and resolving cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
- Perform cloud operational activities including VM patching, migrations, cluster/database upgrades, AMI patching and releases, backups, and live production support.
- Use monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Collaborate with product teams, engineering teams, and stakeholders across multiple geographies and time zones. Encourage a culture of collaboration, operational excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
Good to have:
- Familiarity with advanced deployment and platform engineering tools such as ArgoCD or similar tools.
- Exposure to AI / Agentic AI-based automation for cloud operations and process optimization.
- Ability to drive architectural improvements and standardization across cloud environments.
- Experience working with external security tools such as: , CrowdStrike Falcon and Qualys.
- Knowledge of AWS cost and governance tools such as: Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer and Trusted Advisor.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in cloud environments.
- Strong practical experience in AWS
- Azure knowledge is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitOps, and Docker.
- Good understanding of cloud cost optimization, security operations, and production support activities.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Education Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 7+ years of relevant professional experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, or DevOps environments.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes