Lead Cloud Engineer

• Define and evolve the architecture of the cloud platform on Microsoft Azure. 

• Own the technical roadmap for the cloud platform and guide modernization initiatives. 

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and production issues. 

• Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep preferred, ARM, or Terraform). 

• Define reusable platform patterns and infrastructure modules that enable product teams to deploy safely and efficiently. 

• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational consistency across environments. 

• Establish reliability practices including observability, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident response. 

• Design highly available systems capable of supporting global SaaS workloads. 

• Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives and provide FinOps leadership across the organization. 

• Implement tooling and reporting that provide transparency into infrastructure usage and cost drivers. 

• Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure infrastructure meets scalability, security, and compliance requirements. 

• Mentor engineers and help develop strong cloud engineering capabilities across the organization. 

• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate infrastructure automation, operational insights, and system optimization. 

Required Qualifications 

• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles with increasing technical responsibility. 

• Experience operating production infrastructure for SaaS platforms. 

• Strong expertise with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and architecture. 

• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Bicep, ARM templates, or Terraform. 

• Strong scripting or programming skills in PowerShell, Python, C#, or similar languages. 

• Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems. 

• Ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on with infrastructure and automation. 

• Strong collaboration and communication skills. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Azure certifications such as AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) or AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect). 

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and containerized workloads. 

• Experience working across multiple public cloud providers (Azure and AWS). 

• Experience planning or executing cloud migration or platform modernization initiatives. 

• Familiarity with SRE practices and modern observability platforms. 

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools and emerging AI-driven operational platforms.