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As a Cloud Dev Ops Engineer
, you are a critical owner of our cloud infrastructure, responsible for ensuring that systems are secure, scalable, cost-efficiency, and reliable across both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Your role spans the full Dev Ops lifecycle—from infrastructure and automation to system performance, cloud cost control, and security governance.

You own key capabilities across compute
, storage
, networking
, firewall management
, data protection
, and observability
, that serve as the technical backbone of our cloud ecosystem.

• Manage and optimize compute resources, including virtual machines, containers (Kubernetes, AKS, GKE), and serverless workloads for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Oversee cloud-native storage solutions, ensuring appropriate use of storage across workloads.
• Configure and manage networking components such as VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, DNS.

• Lead security patching efforts, vulnerability remediation, and participate in compliance audits.
• Manage SSL/TLS certificates, encryption configurations, and automate certificate lifecycle management.
• Own end to end network connectivity and management.
• Coordinate and respond to penetration tests and security assessments.
• Ensure compliance with MSCI’s internal software development procedures (Service Launch Criteria) and MSCI’s standards around Security Architecture reviews, Data Privacy, Vendor Assessments, etc. as they relate to active or planned initiatives.

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure Dev Ops.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and deployments using IaC tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Drive adoption of Dev Ops best practices across teams, promoting collaboration, repeatability, and faster release cycles.

• Own end-to-end observability stack including monitoring, alerting, and logging using tools like Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Operations Suite.
• Conduct load testing and capacity planning for critical services.

• Continuously evaluate cloud consumption and implement cost optimization strategies such as autoscaling, resource scheduling, rightsizing, and reserved instances.
• Report and forecast cloud spend and proactively identify cost‑saving opportunities.

• Manage and optimize global traffic distribution through Akamai CDN.
• Develop, test, and maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) plans and business continuity procedures for critical systems.
• Ensure consistent and secure backup and retention strategies across workloads, aligning with RPO/RTO and compliance requirements.

• Respond in a timely manner to address production incidents impacting the BT Cloud/Web ecosystems (e.g. service availability incidents, zero‑day vulnerabilities).
• Manage incident resolution and future mitigation plans.

• Work closely with Dev Ops Engineer peers with the same function as well as the central Cloud Engineering team to share knowledge, best practices and ensure adherence to Firm‑wide standards for Cloud/Dev Ops.
• Be the team’s representative stakeholder on Cloud Engineering and IT Security forums with senior stakeholders.

• A University Undergraduate (BA) or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent fields
• Proven expertise in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform—including deep hands‑on experience with compute, networking, storage, IAM, and automation.
• Strong knowledge of firewall management, network security, and cloud perimeter defence.
• Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation at scale.
• Hands‑on experience with Akamai CDN or equivalent enterprise‑grade content delivery platforms.
• Proficiency with monitoring, logging, and observability…