Sr. Specialist / Expert, Cloud Infrastructure

You are a Cloud Engineer - 

• Collaborate with Application Development, FinOps, Cloud, Governance, and Security teams to help formulate and implement a comprehensive cloud strategy. This includes developing frameworks, internal standards, governing policies, and procedures that align with organizational goals.

• Support FinOps initiatives by working closely with finance teams to optimize cloud spending, providing insights into cost management, and helping to forecast future cloud expenditures.

• Guide application teams by offering technical leadership in cloud architecture, ensuring that solutions are design for optimal deployment, security, performance, and high availability.

• Develop and maintain a balanced cloud governance framework based on industry standards, ensuring compliance with security protocols and other regulatory requirements.

• Evaluate and implement proof-of-concepts for emerging cloud services and technologies, ensuring that the organization stays ahead of industry trends.

• Drive cloud adoption and innovation by exploring new cloud services, finding opportunities to demonstrate them for business growth, and ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.

• Collaborate with teams on new and existing business/technology solutions, ensuring they align with established standards and contribute to long-term cloud strategy.

• Perform regular cloud cost reviews and provide recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce waste.

• Mentor and support teams in understanding cloud technologies, standard methodologies, and operational processes.

• Stay informed of industry-wide trends and their potential impact or application to the business, ensuring the organization’s cloud strategy remains forward-looking and innovative.

• Complete other responsibilities as assigned and ensure compliance with all company policies and standards.

You connect the dots - 

• Support day to day business requirements according to global SLA

• Ensure the proper use of information technology project management methodology to align with governance practices

You are a collaborator - 

• Build effective working relationships, make sound decisions, successfully make changes, initiate action and achieve results as a trusted advisor

• Collaborate by organizing discussions with department stakeholders to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud.

• Consult with stakeholders on requirements for new and existing business/technology solutions and assure compliance to standards.

• Mentor and coach junior resources within and across teams

You are an innovator - 

• Stay updated with the latest technological advancement. Adapt to these changes by self-training and research work and evaluate how / where it can contribute to the business and strengthen the cloud environment.

What we’ll need…(Required)

• At least 4-6 years in Cloud Engineering

• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, team environment

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally

• Superior organization, project management skills and attention to detail

• Strong understanding of cloud computing capabilities and limitations, business drivers, virtualization technologies,

• Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Cloud delivery models

• A strong ability to learn new technologies

• Thorough understanding of system and infrastructure management in the Cloud environment (Linux/Windows servers, firewalls, load balancers, hypervisors, storage, monitoring, security etc.)

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services (GCP, AWS, etc.)

• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Kubernetes Engine. Hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda is acceptable and can be considered as a good foundation for the required GCP expertise

• Proficiency in configuring and handling virtual networks, including VPC, subnets, and firewall rules.