Senior Cloud Engineer

Role Summary :

Designs and implements cloud infrastructure components for the SCF platform, working from the Cloud Architect's designs. Responsible for building Kubernetes environments, provisioning cloud-native services, and writing infrastructure-as-code this is cloud engineering and development role, not a DevOps pipeline role.

Key Responsibilities :

- Implement Terraform modules and Helm charts for all platform components per the Cloud Architect's designs.

- Provision and maintain Dev, UAT, and staging Kubernetes environments (EKS/AKS).

- Configure and manage cloud-native services: managed PostgreSQL (Aurora/RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), object storage (S3), and Kaa (MSK or equivalent).

- Implement auto-scaling policies, resource limits, health checks, and pod disruption budgets.

- Deploy and configure the observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, and OpenTelemetry collectors.

- Troubleshoot infrastructure and environment issues; support development squads with cloud-related blockers.

- Maintain infrastructure-as-code repositories; ensure all changes are version-controlled and peer-reviewed.

Required Skills & Experience :

- 5+ years in cloud engineering or cloud application development, with at least 2 years on banking, fintech, or financial services platforms.

- Hands-on Kubernetes experience (EKS or AKS) deployments, services, ingress, RBAC, namespaces, and resource management.

- Proficiency with Terraform and Helm for infrastructure-as-code.

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS managed services: EKS, RDS Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, MSK, IAM or Azure equivalents.

- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for observability.

- Scripting proficiency: Python or Bash for automation and tooling.

- Understanding of security and compliance requirements for cloud infrastructure in regulated financial services environments.

Nice to Have :

- AWS Certified Developer Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.

- Experience with Istio or Linkerd service mesh configuration.

- Kaa cluster provisioning and management experience.

- Familiarity with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD or Flux) from an infrastructure consumer perspective.