Manage and administer multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Assess existing cloud environment and provide recommendations for improvement based on industry best practices for cloud management and operations
Understand customer / application problem statement and recommend one or more solution to the problem
Liaise with application & infra teams, cloud platform provider support teams and other vendors
Transition newly engineered solutions from cloud platform team and facilitate hand over to operations team for continued support
Deploy and configure foundation resources such as organization, management groups, subscriptions, accounts, resource groups
Triage and resolve issues related to intra-cloud networking resource / services (virtual network, subnet, security groups, Access control lists, network gateways, load balancer, application gateway, firewall, DNS, service endpoints, network peering)
Manage and triage cloud onramp resources / services such as AWS direct connect, Azure express route, virtual WAN, traffic manager, internet ingress/ egress, virtual private network
Deploy, configure and administer cloud compute resources (Virtual machine, container, batch, server-less functions, marketplace and custom images, container image registry, kubernetes)
Administer and triage issues with cloud PaaS services
Review critical changes requested by operations team, prior to implementation
Review and approve infrastructure code for managing changes to cloud resources
Engage with cloud operations team to resolve incidents induced by failed production changes
Understand cloud standards and guidelines and facilitate adoption by cloud operations team
Requirement:
Experience in managing multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Certified solution architect (associate / professional / expert level) in one or more cloud platforms
Knowledge / Experience in deploying and configuring foundational cloud resources such as organization, management groups, subscriptions, accounts, resource groups
Expertise in administering and troubleshooting intra-cloud networking resources / services (virtual network, subnet, security groups, Access control lists, network gateways, load balancer, application gateway, firewall, DNS, service endpoints, network peering)
Expertise in managing and triaging cloud on-ramp resources / services such as AWS direct connect, Azure express route, virtual WAN, traffic manager, internet ingress/ egress, virtual private network
Knowledge on identity and access management platforms / services (identity federation, SSO, Role based access control, user identity, service principals, managed system identities
Experience in deploying, configuring and administering Cloud compute resources (Virtual machine, container, batch, server-less functions, marketplace and custom images, container image registry, kubernetes)
Expertise in cloud storage resource deployment and configuration (storage account, storage containers, blob, file, object, queue and table storage)
Experience in cloud PaaS service setup, troubleshooting and administration (web service, app service, database)
Strong analytical skills to understand problem statement and recommend one or more solution to the problem
Excellent communication & interpersonal skills to liaise with application & infra teams, cloud platform provider support teams and other vendors
Knowledge or expertise in using infrastructure as code / devops tools such as terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Azure devops pipelines
Experience in working with cloud operations & engineering teams to ensure adoption of cloud standards and guidelines and to facilitate transition of newly engineered cloud services to operations team for administration
