Sr. Cloud Engineer

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As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing advanced cloud infrastructure solutions. You will lead high-impact initiatives, mentor junior team members, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.) are robust, cost-effective, secure, and aligned with business goals. This position demands strong technical leadership, meticulous attention to detail, and exceptional communication and accountability.

• Cloud Architecture & Strategy
• Architect and implement scalable, highly available, and cost-efficient solutions using services such as EC2, S3, VMs, Kubernetes, or serverless offerings in AWS, Azure, or other cloud platforms.
• Continuously research new cloud services, evaluating their potential to enhance performance, resilience, and security.
• Align all technology proposals to business need
• Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code
• Drive adoption of IaC tools and processes (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM templates).
• Automate complex deployment, monitoring, and maintenance tasks to streamline operations and reduce human error.
• Performance, Reliability & Cost Optimization
• Establish performance baselines and SLAs; monitor resource utilization to proactively identify bottlenecks.
• Propose and implement cost-saving strategies that maintain or improve performance, working closely with finance and management.
• Security & Compliance
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce identity/access management, data encryption, and other compliance best practices.
• Conduct regular reviews of security configurations and incident response procedures, mitigating risk across multiple environments.
• Incident Management & Troubleshooting
• Serve as an escalation point for critical incidents. Perform advanced troubleshooting, ensuring quick resolution and minimal downtime.
• Conduct root-cause analyses for recurring issues and drive improvements to prevent future incidents.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship
• Provide technical mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, guiding them in best practices and cloud architecture patterns.
• Champion cross-team knowledge-sharing through lunch-and-learn sessions, documentation, and design workshops.

• Effective Collaboration & Time Management:
  Uses Microsoft Teams to proactively keep colleagues informed and respects others’ time. Schedules meetings with clear agendas and correct attendees. Avoids procrastination by balancing collaborative and individual work efficiently.
• Team Commitments & Ownership:
  Fully understands team deliverables and proactively mobilizes resources to meet deadlines. Seeks out additional responsibilities and leads initiatives confidently.
• Maintainability & Risk Mitigation:
  Champions maintainable systems and processes across the organization, resulting in minimal escaped defects. Identifies, prioritizes, and mitigates risks at a global level to ensure lasting stability and quality.

• Active Listening & Clarity:
  Adept at paraphrasing key discussion points to confirm understanding and asking clarifying questions to ensure alignment.
• Company-Wide Presentations & Knowledge Sharing:
  Able to deliver formal presentations in a clear, compelling manner to large or executive audiences. Regularly shares relevant articles, industry trends, and leads training sessions (e.g., lunch-and-learn).
• Documentation Leadership:
  Capable of leading design sketches and detailed documentation. Proactively cleans up “tech debt” in documentation to keep knowledge current and accessible.

• Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent hands‑on experience).
  • 5–7+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), designing complex infrastructures at scale.
• Technical
  
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  • Expert understanding of cloud-native services: compute, storage, databases, networking, and security.
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform,…