Required Qualifications

- 8+ years in cloud/platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure leadership roles.

- 3+ years leading cross-functional technical programs with direct business impact.

- Strong hands-on depth in at least two of the following: Kubernetes platforms, cloud infrastructure automation, cost optimization, observability, CI/CD systems.

- Experience across AWS and Azure in production environments.

- Proven ability to translate business goals into technical roadmap execution.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Technical Skills

- Managed Kubernetes platforms: EKS and/or AKS architecture and operations.

- Infrastructure as Code: strong hands-on depth in Terraform or OpenTofu or Pulumi.

- Cloud automation and scripting: Python and/or TypeScript for workflow and operations automation.

- CI/CD implementation: Git-based pipelines, setting promotion, release controls, rollback patterns.

- Cloud security foundations: IAM, secrets management, policy enforcement, and least-privilege design.

- Cost optimization engineering:



rightsizing, idle resource remediation, schedule automation, and governance controls.

- Observability foundations: metrics, logs, traces, alert design, and SLO-oriented operating practices.

Preferred Technical Skills

- Configuration management and systems automation (Ansible or equivalent).

- Experience evaluating or migrating monitoring stacks (for example, Datadog alternatives).

- Experience with Kafka platform migrations, including Kafka-as-a-Service adoption.

- Experience enabling ARM64 migration and multi-arch build/deployment practices.

- Experience driving stateless architecture transitions and config externalization patterns.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience leading cloud transformation in multi-tenant or regulated environments.

- Experience with FinOps practices and cost governance operating models.

- Experience with platform migration programs (for example, KaaS, ARM, stateless modernization).

📌 Cloud Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Kripya Solutions Private
📍 Chennai