Cloud Engineer

About this role

Summary

Designs, implements, and manages cloud-based infrastructure and applications in Microsoft Azure. Possesses and utilizes deep expertise in Azure services, infrastructure as code, automation, and monitoring, ensuring that our cloud environment is secure, scalable, and cost-efficient.

Primary Responsibilities

• Monitors cloud system performance, availability, compliance, and security using cloud-native or third-party monitoring tools.
• Designs and implements backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and failover strategies across Azure and AWS environments to ensure business continuity and resilience.
• Regularly reviews and optimizes cloud resources, configurations, and policies to align with cloud best practices, cost optimization, governance, and security requirements.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including developers, network engineers, cybersecurity teams, and IT administrators to support enterprise cloud initiatives and operational excellence.
• Provides guidance on migrating on-premises systems to Azure and AWS cloud platforms.
• Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) for Azure and AWS-related architecture, operations, troubleshooting, and cloud service inquiries.
• Maintains comprehensive documentation for cloud architecture, configurations, operational processes, standards, and procedures.
• Assists with infrastructure automation, provisioning, and configuration management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Participates in cloud capacity planning, cost management, and performance tuning initiatives to improve scalability and operational efficiency.

Additional Responsibilities

• Regularly audits and ensures adherence to governance policies set by the Azure/AWS Governance team (e.g., cost management, resource tagging).
• Supports the team in defining and updating governance strategies.
• Coordinates activities with other IT teams as needed.
• Proposes innovative solutions by approaching probl...