Senior Cloud / Virtualization & Automation Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Cloud / Virtualization & Automation Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure DevOps, Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and VMware virtualization.

The ideal candidate should be capable of designing, deploying, automating and troubleshooting complex cloud and virtualization environments.

Experience

- 810 years of relevant IT experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in AWS Cloud, Azure DevOps, Terraform and VMware.
- Experience working in hybrid or multi-cloud environments is preferred.

Mandatory Technical Skills

AWS Core Services

- EC2
- VPC
- IAM
- S3
- RDS
- Load Balancing
- Auto Scaling
- AWS Networking
- Subnets, Routing, NAT, Security Groups

Azure DevOps

- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using YAML.
- Automated build, release and deployment pipelines.

AWS Security

- AWS Security Hub configuration and integration.
- AWS Config
- GuardDuty
- Inspector
- Security findings and remediation.
- Cloud security, compliance and security guardrails.

Infrastructure as Code

- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform.
- CloudFormation or equivalent IaC experience is acceptable.
- Infrastructure provisioning, versioning, testing and automation.

Networking

- Strong understanding of VPC architecture and virtual networking.
- Subnets, routing, NAT, security groups and network connectivity.

Key Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy and manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.
- Ensure high availability, resilience, performance and cost optimization of AWS environments.




- Configure and maintain AWS Security Hub and integrate it with GuardDuty, Config, Inspector and other AWS security services.
- Manage security findings and drive remediation activities.
- Design and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using YAML.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Build automated pipelines for infrastructure, applications and configurations.
- Implement security, compliance, testing and rollback mechanisms within CI/CD pipelines.
- Administer VMware environments, including ESXi, vCenter, clusters, storage integration and virtual networking.
- Perform VM provisioning, migration, patching and performance tuning.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across AWS, Azure, virtualization and automation environments.
- Work on cloud performance, security incidents, configuration drift and automation failures.
- Participate in Disaster Recovery planning, testing and failover activities.
- Perform AWS/Azure vulnerability assessments and remediation.
- Work on incidents, changes and problems related to in-scope technologies.
- Monitor cloud environments using AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring/logging tools.
- Create and maintain New Relic monitoring dashboards.
- Support FinOps and cloud cost management/optimization initiatives.
- Work with code scanning tools such as SonarQube and Nexus IQ.

Valuable-to-Have Skills
- Hybrid Cloud / Multi-Cloud
- Azure Cloud
- VMware vSphere
- vSAN / SAN / NAS
- AWS CodePipeline
- SonarQube
- Nexus IQ
- New Relic
- FinOps
- Disaster Recovery
- Cloud vulnerability management
- Security automation

Education Bachelor's / Master's degree in Science, Engineering or equivalent.

📌 Senior Cloud / Virtualization & Automation Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Orcapod Consulting Services
📍 Chennai