Lead Cloud Engineering and Production Operations Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering Design, deploy, and manage hybrid and cloud infrastructures (OCI, AWS, Azure, on-prem) to support production and enterprise systems
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure repeatable, secure, and automated deployments
• Develop and maintain CI/CD-ready environments that support rapid build, test, and release cycles for engineering teams
• Partner with network and security teams to implement resilient, compliant architectures
• Production Operations and Reliability
• Serve as technical lead for production systems, ensuring stability, performance, and scalability
• Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks to improve visibility and reduce mean time to detection (MTTD) and resolution (MTTR)
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement efforts
• Collaborate with Engineering and SRE teams to define SLIs, SLOs, and performance metrics for critical services
• Automation and CI/CD Enablement
• Develop and enhance deployment pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD) to automate software delivery and environment provisioning
• Embed security, compliance, and testing gates into CI/CD workflows
• Implement configuration management and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage infrastructure at scale
• Drive efficiency through self-healing systems, auto-scaling, and infrastructure automation
• Operational Leadership and Collaboration
• Lead day-to-day production operations activities, mentoring junior engineers on cloud and reliability best practices
• Act as a technical bridge between Infrastructure, Security, and Application Engineering teams
• Contribute to capacity planning, cost optimization, and production readiness reviews
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for production systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, with at least 2–3 years in a lead or senior engineer capacity
• Deep expertise in OCI (preferred), AWS or Azure (networking, compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring)
• Proven experience with production-scale operations and hybrid cloud deployments
• Proficiency in: Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD and DevOps pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD), Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), Observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), Scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to lead through high-impact incidents
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting high-availability SaaS or production environments
• Knowledge of FinOps, cloud governance, and cost optimization practices
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles, Zero Trust, and automated compliance frameworks
• Exposure to AI/ML pipeline infrastructure or high-throughput data systems