Cloud Engineer - IAC Terraform

Description :

Job Title : Cloud Engineer

Location : Chennai

Experience : 5 to 6 Years

Job Type : Full-Time

Responsibilities :

- Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

- Monitor cloud resources to ensure availability and scalability.

- Monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization.

- Respond to and resolve time-critical customer issues in the public cloud.

- Troubleshoot cloud-related infrastructure incidents and issues.

- Perform customer deployments, migrations, and upgrades in the cloud environment.

- Support automation projects, writing infrastructure as code (IaC) for provisioning and scaling resources.

- Assist in ensuring security best practices for cloud are followed and customer data is secured. Perform database operations such as backup and restores.

- Collaborate with development, devops and support teams to deploy and manage cloud based applications and resolve issues.

- Create and maintain documentation for cloud infrastructure and processes.

- Stay up to date with cloud technology trends and best practices.

- Propose and implement improvements to cloud operations processes.

Qualifications :

- Bachelors Degree Computer Science, or related technology field, or equivalent practical experience

- 3-4 years of experience in cloud operations and infrastructure management in AWS, Azure, or Google cloud

- 3-4 years in incident response and major incident management

- Advanced Linux and Windows experience

- Certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud is a plus.

- Solid understanding of Cloud networking and security

- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell)

- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management tools. (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)

- Expert knowledge in containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker Kubernetes, Rancher)

- Experience in version control, CI and automation tools such as GitHub/Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Run deck)

- Experience in deploying and troubleshooting Java based applications and microservices.

- Experience in deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Database technologies like MSSQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB

- Experience in monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Nagios, Prometheus, ELK stack)

- Experience with the following technologies : Virtualization, VPN, RDP, SSO, Kafka

- Experience working with Confluence/Jira