CloudOps engineer - 4 -6 Yrs Exp - Immediate Joiners

CloudOps / Cloud Services Contractor – Required Skills

We are looking for a hands-on CloudOps engineer with strong experience supporting production environments across AWS and GCP.

• Cloud Platforms (AWS & GCP)

Must have hands-on operational experience with

• AWS (strong): EC2, ECS/Fargate
• AWS (working knowledge): RDS (Postgres/MySQL)
• GCP (strong): GCE (VMs)
• GCP (working knowledge): CloudSQL, AlloyDB

Expected capabilities

• Troubleshoot performance, availability, and connectivity issues
• Support upgrades, patching coordination, and lifecycle management
• Work across dev, QA, and production environments with strong awareness of production impact
• Networking (Practical Knowledge)

Strong working understanding of

• VPCs, subnets, routing tables
• Security groups and firewall rules
• DNS (internal and external)
• Basic connectivity patterns (peering, private endpoints / PSC)

Ability to

• Troubleshoot cross-service connectivity issues
• Collaborate effectively with networking teams (clear understanding of ownership boundaries)
• IAM, Security & Access Governance (Critical)

Required experience with

• AWS IAM roles and policies
• GCP IAM (projects, folders, service accounts)

Must understand

• Least privilege access model
• PAM / temporary elevation concepts
• Service account usage and restrictions
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Required

• Terraform (hands-on)

Strong plus

• AWS CloudFormation

Expectation

• Comfortable working in environments where all changes go through pipelines (no manual console changes)
• Monitoring, Logging & Observability

Experience with

• AWS CloudWatch
• GCP Monitoring and Logging
• Splunk or similar tools

Ability to

• Troubleshoot incidents using logs and metrics
• Tune alerts and reduce noise
• DevOps Tooling Support

Must have experience supporting

• Artifactory
• Terraform pipelines

Familiarity with

• GitHub / repository management
• Docker / Kubernetes (basic understanding)
• Incident Management & Operations

Required experience with

• On-call support model
• Incident triage, escalation, and ownership

Expectations

• Own issues end-to-end (triage → resolution → handoff if needed)
• Communicate clearly during incidents
• Work across Cloud Engineering, application teams, and vendors
• Documentation & Runbooks

Strong expectation for

• Writing and maintaining runbooks
• Keeping documentation accurate and up to date

Ability to

• Convert informal knowledge into structured, usable documentation
• Automation & Continuous Improvement

Experience with

• Scripting (Python or Bash)
• Automating operational tasks and workflows

Mindset

• Focus on reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency
• Cloud Lifecycle Management

Experience with

• Provisioning, upgrades, and decommissioning
• OS / image management (e.g., AMIs, VM images)

Understanding of

• Patching responsibilities (shared vs application-owned)
• Version upgrades (e.g., database upgrades)

✅ Summary (Quick Screening)

• Strong CloudOps experience in AWS and GCP
• Terraform and IaC-driven operations (required)
• Solid IAM/security knowledge (critical)
• Production support and incident management experience
• Monitoring/logging (CloudWatch, GCP Monitoring, Splunk)
• Experience with DevOps tooling (Artifactory, pipelines)
• Strong documentation and automation mindset