Cloud Engineering Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Cloud Engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable cloud infrastructure and platforms.
• Define and execute the cloud engineering strategy, architecture roadmap, and infrastructure modernization initiatives aligned with business objectives.
• Design and implement secure, highly available, resilient, and cost-efficient AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud environments.
• Drive cloud migration, modernization, containerization, and cloud-native adoption across applications and infrastructure.
• Lead implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Establish and improve CI/CD, DevOps, automation, observability, reliability, and infrastructure management practices.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Security, Product, Architecture, and Operations teams to deliver cloud solutions and platform capabilities.
• Drive cloud security, IAM, network security, compliance, vulnerability management, and governance across cloud environments.
• Define standards and best practices for Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, networking, monitoring, logging, and cloud infrastructure.
• Own cloud availability, performance, scalability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives to improve infrastructure efficiency and manage cloud spend.
• Establish operational processes for incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Monitor and improve cloud infrastructure using observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management tools.
• Hire, mentor, coach, and develop Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, SREs, and Technical Leads.
• Conduct performance reviews, define career development plans, and build a high-performing engineering culture.
• Manage engineering capacity, resource planning, priorities, technical dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Evaluate new cloud services, technologies, and tools and recommend solutions based on security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Communicate technical strategy, infrastructure risks, operational metrics, and cloud initiatives to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Software Engineering, with demonstrated leadership experience.
• Proven experience managing or leading Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure teams.
• Strong hands-on expertise in at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Networking, IAM, Security, High Availability, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery.
• Experience designing and operating production-grade cloud-native and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Linux, networking, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, VPC/VNet, firewalls, IAM, and cloud security.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with Python, Bash, Shell scripting, or other languages for infrastructure automation.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, SRE, automation, platform engineering, and continuous delivery practices.
• Experience with cloud migration, application modernization, containerization, microservices, and serverless architectures is preferred.
• Experience driving cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, FinOps, and infrastructure efficiency initiatives.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, vulnerability management, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Proven experience in people management, hiring, mentoring, coaching, performance management, and team development.
• Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to balance technical excellence, reliability, security, delivery timelines, team development, and business priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical discipline.
• B.E./B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech or equivalent qualification preferred.
• Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKAD, or Terraform Associate are an added advantage.