What You will Expect:
To deliver a secure, compliant, automated, resilient, and cost-efficient Azure cloud platform, supported by strong governance, enhanced observability and AIOps capabilities, and clear architecture and engineering leadership.
- Build and maintain secure, enterprise-grade Azure environments that meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Drive automation and modernization through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and modern cloud engineering practices.
- Ensure platform resilience through high availability, reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Establish and enforce governance, risk, and compliance controls, including policies, guardrails, tagging standards, and security baselines.
- Enhance operational effectiveness through observability, AIOps, cost optimization, and technical leadership.
What You Will Do:
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade Azure cloud environments that are secure, scalable, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
- Develop and implement infrastructure automation solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery readiness across cloud platforms.
- Lead cloud modernization and platform transformation initiatives.
- Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and support engineering teams in understanding and managing cloud cost drivers.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Operate within enterprise governance frameworks and ensure compliance with applicable industry standards and regulations.
- Enforce cloud governance controls, including resource tagging, cost management, security baselines, and policy compliance.
- Collaborate with risk, audit, and compliance teams to meet internal and external regulatory requirements.
- Define and implement cloud guardrails, Azure Policies, and governance blueprints.
Observability & AIOps Integration
- Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and AIOps teams to strengthen end-to-end observability across cloud infrastructure.
- Integrate AIOps capabilities to enable proactive incident detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation.
- Develop and maintain SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to ensure optimal platform performance and reliability.
Architecture & Engineering Alignment
- Partner closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, principles, and roadmaps.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, solution approvals, and technology selection decisions.
- Translate business and architectural requirements into scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure solutions.
Innovation & Leadership
- Demonstrate innovation leadership by driving the adoption of modern cloud practices, automation, and emerging technologies.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation, platform engineering, and AIOps capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and influence engineering best practices.
- Champion a DevOps culture, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across teams.
What You Will Need:
Technical Expertise
- 8-12+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on cloud technologies (Azure preferred).
- Deep knowledge of Azure services (compute, networking, storage, security, identity), Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale architecture, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
- Proven experience implementing observability solutions, preferably Dynatrace or similar AIOps platforms.
- Knowledge of Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) would be an advantage.
Governance & Regulated Environment
- Proven experience working in highly regulated industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, or government.
- Strong understanding of security frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS benchmarks) and Cloud governance models and compliance controls.
- Experience operating within engineering governance frameworks and approval processes.
Architecture Collaboration
- Experience working with or supporting Enterprise Architecture functions.
- Ability to interpret and implement enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and design principles.
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Demonstrated innovation leadership and a proven ability to drive transformation initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed enterprise environments.
Certifications:
Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP) are an added advantage
Experience With
- CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
- Container platforms (Kubernetes, AKS)
- Platform engineering and self-service cloud capabilities
- FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization