Sr. Cloud Engineer
Summary
Senior Cloud Engineer at AXA's in-house IT arm in Gurugram who builds, automates and operates Azure IaaS/PaaS and private cloud platforms: turning HLDs into implementations, writing Terraform/ARM/Harness infrastructure-as-code, wiring CI/CD, and handling monitoring, on-call, DR, FinOps and security/compliance work.
- Implement architecture: Translate HLDs into LLDs and implement approved designs for VMs, networking, storage, security and OpenShift components under guidance from platform leads.
- Infrastructure as Code: Develop, test and maintain productiongrade IaC (Terraform, ARM, Harness) and contribute to reusable modules and templates.
- Automation CI/CD integration: Integrate platform components with CI/CD pipelines, support Harness/Artifactory workflows and automate routine provisioning and deployments.
- Platform validation: Test PaaS services and platform features, produce runbooks and provide readiness feedback to platform owners.
- Operational support: Monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, participate in oncall rotations as required and support DR and recovery activities.
- Platform enablement: Deliver foundation modules (app skeletons, baseline configurations), assist projects with resource provisioning and fulfil OpenShift and firewall requests.
- Collaboration: Work closely with IaaS/PaaS leads, Automation, DevOps, Network and Security teams to resolve platform defects and implement improvements.
- Cost, security and compliance: Apply FinOps practices, enforce security and policy controls in deployments, and support audit remediation tasks owned by the Cloud Platforms team.
- Continuous improvement: Contribute to platform roadmaps, propose optimizations, and help industrialize successful POCs into production patterns.
- Knowledge sharing: Document solutions, run design reviews, and mentor more junior engineers when appropriate .
- Cloud platforms: Solid handson experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS; familiarity with Private Cloud concepts.
- Containers orchestration: Practical experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker.
- IaC automation: Proficient with Terraform and/or ARM; experience with CPP, Harness or similar automation tools.
- CI/CD tooling: Experience integrating services into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Harness).
- Scripting config: Comfortable with YAML and scripting (Bash, Python) for automation and tooling.
- Observability: Working knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalents).
- Networking security: Experience with Azure networking, firewalls (Azure FW), OCP egress and identity/secrets management.
- Development mindset: Developerfocused approach to platform enablement and automation.
- Relevant years of experience in cloud/platform engineering with demonstrable Azure and OpenShift experience.
- Education certifications: Degree in Computer Science or equivalent; Azure and OpenShift certifications are a plus.
- Methodologies: Comfortable working in Agile/Kanban teams and iterative delivery models.
- Language: Fluent in written and spoken English.
