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. The Cloud Services team provides 24x7 operational support for Staples' cloud infrastructure, ensuring the stability, scalability, availability, and security of critical platforms.

The ideal candidate will have robust hands-on experience managing public cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP, combined with solid Linux system administration skills and experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible or Puppet. Experience supporting production environments, Kubernetes platforms, cloud migrations, monitoring, incident management, and infrastructure automation is highly desirable.

This role requires a seasoned infrastructure professional who can troubleshoot complex production issues, drive automation and continuous improvement, collaborate across engineering teams, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of Staples' cloud technology ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities




- Provide 24x7 operational support for Staples' cloud infrastructure and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Manage and support cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP, ensuring availability, performance, scalability, and security.
- Perform Linux system administration, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and security remediation.
- Automate infrastructure and operating system activities such as OS/security patching, configuration management, and routine operational tasks using Ansible or Puppet.
- Support Kubernetes platforms, including AKS, GKE, or EKS, with a focus on cluster operations, maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure availability, health, and performance monitoring to ensure platform reliability and uptime.
- Support and contribute to cloud migration initiatives, including their impact on infrastructure, networking, security,

📌 Cloud Engineer 2 (Chennai)
🏢 Careernet
📍 Chennai