Role Summary:

As a Lead IT Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a key role in driving cloud transformation initiatives within the Cloud Services team at Staples. This team provides 24x7 support for Staples’ cloud infrastructure, ensuring stability, scalability, and security across critical platforms. The ideal candidate brings hands -on experience managing public cloud environments (Azure, GCP, or AWS) and robust expertise in Linux system administration, leveraging automation tools such as Ansible or Puppet. We are seeking a seasoned technical operations skilled who is eager to grow and help shape the future of our technology ecosystem.

Duties & Responsibilities

Provide 24x7 operational support for all Staples Cloud Infrastructure and be part of the on -call rotation.
Implement infrastructure availability and performance monitoring to ensure platform uptime and performance.
Automate OS/security patching, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster upgrade etc.,
Drive production readiness “Permit to Operate” (PTO)



process for the applications migrating into public cloud.
Develop, maintain and drive a culture of continuous enhancement for a robust knowledge management system for the Cloud Services team and its partners.
Drive change through simplification and automation.
Collaborate with other Cloud Engineers/Architects, SRE, Development, Release Engineering and Database teams in supporting the implementations into the cloud infrastructure.
Support aspects of the cloud migration initiative, including its impact on infrastructure, networks and security.
Research, analyze and recommend approaches for solving difficult and challenging cloud operational issues.
Generate governance and compliance related reports to the management on as needed basis.
Work with Staples Incident/Problem Management, Cloud provider(s) and drive root cause analysis (RCA) for any high priority issues in a timely manner.

Requirements
Basic Qualifications
Bache

📌 Lead It Infrastructure Engineer Chennai
🏢 Staples India Business Innovation Hub
📍 Chennai