Cloud Engineer

• Lead collaboration with application development teams to design and implement reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines
• Architect, implement, and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code best practices
• Drive automation initiatives across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes
• Design, implement, and maintain observability platforms, with a strong focus on Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
• Establish monitoring, SLOs, and alerting strategies to improve system reliability and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
• Own and optimize cloud cost efficiency, identifying savings opportunities and implementing cost controls without compromising performance
• Implement and maintain configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Own and optimize VMware environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance
• Serve as a senior escalation point for production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving long-term remediation
• Partner with security teams to enforce infrastructure security, compliance, and best practices
• Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement efforts
• Perform regular system performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost analysis
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to technical standards and documentation
• Create and maintain detailed architecture diagrams and operational documentation
• Design and optimize scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Manage VMware and container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes across Windows and Linux environments
• Use Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to drive standardized provisioning and delivery
• Build deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Git
• Support production performance and troubleshooting using SQL Server, IIS, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana

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