Sr CloudOps Engineer

Cloud Platform • Kubernetes • Infrastructure as Code • Technical Leadership

Location: Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai

Mode of Work: Hybrid

Shift Timings: General or 2 PM to 11 PM

Type: Full-time • Senior/Lead • 8+ years

Reporting to: Cloud Operations Lead / Head of Engineering

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer to manage and improve our cloud infrastructure, security, and platform engineering capabilities across GCP and AWS.

The role involves designing secure and scalable cloud environments, managing Kubernetes platforms, automating infrastructure using Terraform, improving CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring high availability and reliability. The candidate will also lead incident response, implement security best practices, and mentor engineers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Platform Architecture & Strategy Primary

- Lead the architecture and implementation of complex cloud solutions across GCP and AWS — networking, compute, storage, and multi-workplace design.
- Define platform standards and reusable patterns (landing zones, Terraform modules, cluster blueprints) that teams build against.
- Evaluate new cloud technologies and guide cloud strategy and platform roadmap improvements.
- Drive cost optimisation and FinOps practices — right-sizing, commitment planning, and resource governance across environments.
- Own reliability and scalability targets — capacity planning, high availability, and disaster recovery design.

Kubernetes & Container Platform — Primary

- Design and operate production GKE clusters — cluster architecture, node pool strategy,



upgrades, and autoscaling.
- Own the container platform experience — Helm/Kustomize standards, namespace and RBAC models, and workload onboarding.
- Manage service mesh (Istio) for traffic management, mTLS, and observability across services.
- Define golden paths for application teams to deploy safely and consistently.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code — Primary

- Own Terraform standards and module design — secure, reusable, and version-controlled infrastructure as code.
- Drive end-to-end automation of provisioning, configuration, and platform operations.
- Own GitLab CI/CD pipeline architecture for infrastructure and platform delivery.
- Eliminate manual toil through tooling, self-service, and platform automation.

Reliability, Observability & Leadership

- Instrument platform observability in Datadog — metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and alerting.
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews for platform-impacting events.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; provide technical direction and review designs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional and on/offshore teams to deliver high-impact project lifecycles.

TECH STACK

Required

- GCP — Compute Engine, GKE, VPC, Cloud Storage,



IAM, Cloud Load Balancing
- AWS — EC2, EKS, VPC, S3, IAM (multi-cloud operation)
- Kubernetes — GKE architecture, Helm/Kustomize, autoscaling, RBAC, upgrades
- Terraform — module design, remote state, multi-environment IaC
- GitLab — CI/CD pipeline design for infrastructure and platform delivery
- Datadog — metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, alerting
- Istio — traffic management, mTLS, service mesh observability

Good to have

- ArgoCD/Flux (GitOps), Vault, Cloud FinOps tooling, Python or Go, packer, service catalog/self-service platforms

REQUIREMENTS

Must have

- 8+ years in cloud platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, including a lead or architect-level remit.
- Deep expertise in GCP and/or AWS — hands-on architecture and implementation.
- Strong production Kubernetes experience — cluster design, operations, and upgrades.
- Expert-level Terraform — reusable module design and multi-environment IaC.
- Proven CI/CD and automation experience at scale.
- Experience managing global on/offshore teams and high-impact project lifecycles.
- Ability to mentor engineers and communicate architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

- Google Professional Cloud Architect or AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
- GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux) and progressive delivery experience.
- FinOps / cloud cost optimisation experience.
- Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

📌 Senior CloudOps Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sutherland
📍 Bengaluru