Sr.Specialist / Expert - Cloud Infrastructure

• Collaborate with Application Development, FinOps, Cloud, Governance, and Security teams to help formulate and implement a comprehensive cloud strategy. This includes developing frameworks, internal standards, governing policies, and procedures that align with organizational goals.
• Support FinOps initiatives by working closely with finance teams to optimize cloud spending, providing insights into cost management, and helping to forecast future cloud expenditures.
• Guide application teams by offering technical leadership in cloud architecture, ensuring that solutions are design for optimal deployment, security, performance, and high availability.
• Develop and maintain a balanced cloud governance framework based on industry standards, ensuring compliance with security protocols and other regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate and implement proof-of-concepts for emerging cloud services and technologies, ensuring that the organization stays ahead of industry trends.
• Drive cloud adoption and innovation by exploring new cloud services, finding opportunities to demonstrate them for business growth, and ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
• Collaborate with teams on new and existing business/technology solutions, ensuring they align with established standards and contribute to long-term cloud strategy.
• Perform regular cloud cost reviews and provide recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce waste.
• Mentor and support teams in understanding cloud technologies, standard methodologies, and operational processes.
• Stay informed of industry-wide trends and their potential impact or application to the business, ensuring the organization s cloud strategy remains forward-looking and innovative.
• Complete other responsibilities as assigned and ensure compliance with all company policies and standards.

You connect the dots -

• Support day to day business requirements according to global SLA
• Ensure the proper use of information technology project management methodology to align with governance practices

You are a collaborator -

• Build effective working relationships, make sound decisions, successfully make changes, initiate action and achieve results as a trusted advisor
• Collaborate by organizing discussions with department stakeholders to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud.
• Consult with stakeholders on requirements for new and existing business/technology solutions and assure compliance to standards.
• Mentor and coach junior resources within and across teams

You are an innovator -

• Stay updated with the latest technological advancement. Adapt to these changes by self-training and research work and evaluate how / where it can contribute to the business and strengthen the cloud environment

What we ll need (Required)

• At least 4-6 years in Cloud Engineering
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, team environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally
• Superior organization, project management skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of cloud computing capabilities and limitations, business drivers, virtualization technologies,
• Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Cloud delivery models
• A strong ability to learn new technologies
• Thorough understanding of system and infrastructure management in the Cloud environment (Linux/Windows servers, firewalls, load balancers, hypervisors, storage, monitoring, security etc.)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Kubernetes Engine. Hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda is acceptable and can be considered as a good foundation for the required GCP expertise
• Proficiency in configuring and handling virtual networks, including VPC, subnets, and firewall rules.
• Experience handling infrastructure deployments using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform).
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash etc for automating cloud operations.
• Command of software automation production systems (GitHub, Selenium, etc.).
• Good understanding of security principles and standard methodologies, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance requirements.

What we ll need (Preferred)

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering.
• Google Cloud Architect within 1 Year (Preferred) or AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional.
• Experience in architecting, implementing, and handling multi-cloud environments.
• Understanding of infrastructure correlations with knowledge of servers, networking, AD, security etc
• Proficiency in handling and optimizing cloud costs using tools like Google Clouds Cost Management tools or AWS Cost Explorer and other Finops methodologies.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Understanding of or ability to design solutions across on-premise and multiple public cloud tiers (hybrid).