Senior Cloud / Virtualization & Automation Engineer

Senior Cloud / Virtualization & Automation Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Cloud / Virtualization & Automation Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure DevOps, Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and VMware virtualization.

The ideal candidate should be capable of designing, deploying, automating and troubleshooting complex cloud and virtualization environments.

Experience

• 810 years of relevant IT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in AWS Cloud, Azure DevOps, Terraform and VMware.
• Experience working in hybrid or multi-cloud environments is preferred.

Mandatory Technical Skills

AWS Core Services

• EC2
• VPC
• IAM
• S3
• RDS
• Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling
• AWS Networking
• Subnets, Routing, NAT, Security Groups

Azure DevOps

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using YAML.
• Automated build, release and deployment pipelines.

AWS Security

• AWS Security Hub configuration and integration.
• AWS Config
• GuardDuty
• Inspector
• Security findings and remediation.
• Cloud security, compliance and security guardrails.

Infrastructure as Code

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform.
• CloudFormation or equivalent IaC experience is acceptable.
• Infrastructure provisioning, versioning, testing and automation.

Networking

• Strong understanding of VPC architecture and virtual networking.
• Subnets, routing, NAT, security groups and network connectivity.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy and manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, performance and cost optimization of AWS environments.
• Configure and maintain AWS Security Hub and integrate it with GuardDuty, Config, Inspector and other AWS security services.
• Manage security findings and drive remediation activities.
• Design and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using YAML.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build automated pipelines for infrastructure, applications and configurations.
• Implement security, compliance, testing and rollback mechanisms within CI/CD pipelines.
• Administer VMware environments, including ESXi, vCenter, clusters, storage integration and virtual networking.
• Perform VM provisioning, migration, patching and performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across AWS, Azure, virtualization and automation environments.
• Work on cloud performance, security incidents, configuration drift and automation failures.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning, testing and failover activities.
• Perform AWS/Azure vulnerability assessments and remediation.
• Work on incidents, changes and problems related to in-scope technologies.
• Monitor cloud environments using AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring/logging tools.
• Create and maintain New Relic monitoring dashboards.
• Support FinOps and cloud cost management/optimization initiatives.
• Work with code scanning tools such as SonarQube and Nexus IQ.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Hybrid Cloud / Multi-Cloud
• Azure Cloud
• VMware vSphere
• vSAN / SAN / NAS
• AWS CodePipeline
• SonarQube
• Nexus IQ
• New Relic
• FinOps
• Disaster Recovery
• Cloud vulnerability management
• Security automation

Education

Bachelor's / Master's degree in Science, Engineering or equivalent.