Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Job Description

About the Role

You will join a technical pod building and operating cloud portal workloads across Azure and GCP. The center of gravity for this role is DevOps and DevSecOps: infrastructure as code, secure CI/CD pipelines, automation, and reliability engineering. You also pick up application-level work on the portal itself when the team needs it, so full-stack comfort is expected, not optional. You will work alongside a hands-on Technical Team Leader and are expected to use AI-first development practices daily.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform and Ansible modules for Azure and GCP.
• Enforce configuration standards and policy-as-code practices across environments.

Cloud Engineering (Azure and GCP)

• Build and operate scalable, secure Azure and GCP environments: AKS/GKE, App Gateway, VNets, NSGs, Key Vault, Managed Identities.
• Implement governance, cost optimization, and compliance controls across subscriptions and projects.

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and optimize Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment across environments.
• Implement blue/green, canary, and rollback deployment strategies with observability and alerting.

DevSecOps & Security

• Integrate vulnerability scanning, code analysis, and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows.
• Manage secrets, certificates, and key material with secure vault solutions.
• Partner with security teams to align infrastructure with FedRAMP, FIPS, ISO, PCI standards.

Application Work (Portal Use Cases)

• Contribute to basic portal application code (modern JS/TS frontend, REST API endpoints, simple backend handlers) when the work calls for it.
• Wire applications into the platform: observability, secrets, auth, and deployment patterns the team has standardized on.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Implement proactive monitoring with Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, Log Analytics.
• Define and tune SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets aligned to business outcomes.

Collaboration & Agile Practices

• Partner with product and engineering teammates in agile ceremonies: planning, standups, retrospectives, release management, and post-incident reviews

Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineering, with full-stack application exposure.

Mandatory Skills

A. Technical Skills

• Proven expertise on any of the following: Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP cloud architecture and automation.
• Hands-on with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and reusable module design.
• Strong with CI/CD tooling: Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with security frameworks.
• Experience with container security, image scanning, and supply chain security.
• Proficiency in scripting: Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Application-level comfort: building or maintaining portal-style web apps (modern JS/TS frontend plus a REST backend).
• Working fluency with AI-first development: daily use of AI coding assistants, prompt and context discipline, comfort reviewing AI-generated output for correctness and security.
• Excellent troubleshooting across infrastructure, network, and application layers

B. Soft Skills

• Strong written and verbal English; able to collaborate in US-EST hours.
• Clear, accountable communicator.
• Strong problem-solving instincts.
• Ownership: takes responsibility for end-to-end delivery.
• Collaboration: builds trust across teams and communicates transparently.
• Adaptability: adjusts quickly to new priorities and technologies.
• Continuous learning: proactively explores automation, AI, and new DevOps practices.
• Security mindset: integrates security at every stage of development and deployment.
• Outcome focus: measures success through reliability, speed, and cost efficiency.

Good to Have Skills

• Certifications: Azure (AZ-104/AZ-400), GCP (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer), CKA/CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
• Prior experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, BFSI, healthcare).
• Ansible
• ArgoCD
• Familiarity with security frameworks, such as: FedRAMP, FIPS, CIS Benchmarks, ISO, PCI.
• Full-stack application fluency for portal use cases (modern JS/TS frontend, REST APIs, common backend frameworks).

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Additional Information

Working Hours

General shift with flexibility to support business and stakeholder requirements.
May require coordination with global stakeholders across different time zones as per business needs