Job Title: Principal Cloud Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Cloud Management & Platform Engineering team.

In this role, you will design, build, and operate enterprise-scale multi-cloud governance and enablement platforms across Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, AWS, and Azure. You will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, platform engineering practices, and AI-driven operational tooling to improve security, consistency, scalability, and developer experience across our cloud estate.

This is a highly technical, hands-on engineering role focused on cloud automation, governance, security, and platform reliability.

What You'll Do

Cloud Platform Engineering

- Design and build cloud governance and enablement services across multi-cloud environments (GCP, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure).
- Develop reusable platform capabilities that accelerate secure cloud adoption.
- Implement and maintain cloud account/project onboarding frameworks.
- Design and manage enterprise cloud networking, security, and connectivity patterns.
- Maintain integrations with observability, monitoring, logging, and security platforms.
- Build and manage secure ingress protection services including WAF and DDoS controls.
- Design enterprise logging, telemetry, and SIEM integration patterns.
- Develop and maintain golden VM images and hardened infrastructure baselines.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

- Build and maintain Terraform-based cloud provisioning frameworks.
- Develop automation using Python, Go, Ansible, Bash, and cloud-native APIs.
- Create reusable modules, templates, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery.
- Implement automated testing, validation, compliance, and policy enforcement controls.
- Drive platform modernization through automation-first engineering practices.





Cloud Governance & Security

- Translate security, compliance, and governance requirements into cloud-native policies and guardrails.
- Define and implement enterprise cloud governance standards.
- Partner with Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams to establish secure access control models.
- Improve cloud posture management through automation and continuous compliance monitoring.
- Design scalable governance frameworks that balance security with developer productivity.

AI & Intelligent Operations

- Design and implement AI-assisted and agentic workflows to streamline cloud operations and governance activities.
- Explore and deploy automation capabilities leveraging AI/ML technologies.
- Develop operational tooling that improves incident response, remediation, and platform insights.

Reliability & Operations

- Operate and support business-critical cloud management platforms.
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting cloud platform services.
- Drive reliability, availability, and performance improvements.
- Implement robust observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational support patterns.

Technical Leadership

- Act as a technical SME for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud platforms.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Contribute to platform strategy,



architecture, and roadmap planning.

Required Skills & Experience

Experience

- 7+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building Infrastructure as Code solutions.
- 3+ years of experience operating cloud platforms at enterprise scale.
- Experience working in multi-cloud environments.
- Solid understanding of cloud security, governance, networking, and automation.This role needs to support on the US hours

Cloud Platforms

Hands-on experience with:

- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (preferred)
- AWS
- Azure

Additional experience with the following is highly desirable:

- IBM Cloud

Infrastructure & Automation

Strong hands-on experience with:

- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- Go
- Bash/Shell scripting
- Cloud Provider APIs and SDKs
- CI/CD platforms and GitOps practices

Cloud Governance & Security

Experience with:

- Policy-as-Code
- IAM and Access Governance
- Compliance Automation
- Security Guardrails
- Cloud Security Best Practices
- Logging, Monitoring, and Observability Platforms
- SIEM Integration

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

- Experience working within a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) or Platform Engineering organization.

- Experience implementing Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).

- Experience with AI-powered operational tooling or agentic automation frameworks.

- Familiarity with:

- Terragrunt

- PowerShell

- JavaScript / Node.js

- Kubernetes

- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins

- Open Policy Agent (OPA)

- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions

**What Success Looks

📌 Principal Cloud Engineer (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru