Cloud Engineer
Noida, Uttar PradeshFull-TimeMid-levelSoftware Engineering
Job Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure & Ownership
- Manage and optimize production infrastructure across AWS and GCP (with secondary support for Azure).
- Act as a technical owner for assigned projects, resolving complex infrastructure challenges independently.
- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and reliability risks, implementing solutions before they become incidents.
- Take full ownership of tasks from design to deployment.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation
- Design, write, and maintain high-quality Terraform code to manage infrastructure.
- Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins) to automate deployments and enforce guardrails.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting (Python/Bash) and serverless functions.
- Review peer code and enforce best practices for state management and modularization.
- Security & Governance
- Implement and enforce IAM policies, ensuring least-privilege access across cloud environments.
- Audit cloud resources for security compliance and cost optimization.
- Drive security initiatives, such as rotation of credentials and hardening of network perimeters.
- Collaboration & Reliability
- Drive post-incident reviews (RCAs) and implement long-term fixes.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation and runbooks.
- Work collaboratively with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure meets application requirements.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure roles.
- Technical Experience
- Cloud Proficiency: Proven production experience in AWS and/or GCP. (Experience in both is a strong plus; willingness to master both is required).
- Infrastructure as Code: Strong hands-on experience with Terraform. You should be comfortable writing modules, managing state, and handling complex dependencies.
- CI/CD: Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Scripting: Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation tasks.
- Professional Attributes (Crucial)
- Extreme Ownership: You don't just "do tasks"—you own outcomes.
- Fast Learner: Ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies and existing codebases with minimal guidance.
- Self-Starter: You thrive in environments where you need to figure things out. You require minimal hand-holding and can unblock yourself effectively.
- Proactive Problem Solving: You identify issues early and come to the table with proposed solutions.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with Azure.
- Knowledge of Container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE).
- Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools.
- Background in regulated industries (compliance standards).
