Senior Cloud Engineer - DevOps & DevSecOps
About the Role:
You will join a technical pod building and operating cloud portal workloads across Azure and GCP. The center of gravity for this role is DevOps and DevSecOps: infrastructure as code, secure CI/CD pipelines, automation, and reliability engineering. You also pick up application-level work on the portal itself when the team needs it, so full-stack comfort is expected, not optional. You will work alongside a hands-on Technical Team Leader and are expected to use AI-first development practices daily.
Responsibilities
Infrastructure as Code
- Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform and Ansible modules for Azure and GCP.
- Enforce configuration standards and policy-as-code practices across environments.
Cloud Engineering (Azure and GCP)
- Build and operate scalable, secure Azure and GCP environments: AKS/GKE, App Gateway, VNets, NSGs, Key Vault, Managed Identities .
- Implement governance, cost optimization, and compliance controls across subscriptions and projects.
CI/CD & Automation
- Build and optimize Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment across environments.
- Implement blue/green, canary, and rollback deployment strategies with observability and alerting.
DevSecOps & Security
- Integrate vulnerability scanning, code analysis, and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows.
- Manage secrets, certificates, and key material with secure vault solutions.
- Partner with security teams to align infrastructure with FedRAMP, FIPS, ISO, PCI standards.
Application Work (Portal Use Cases)
- Contribute to basic portal application code (modern JS/TS frontend, REST API endpoints, simple backend handlers) when the work calls for it.
- Wire applications into the platform: observability, secrets, auth, and deployment patterns the team has standardized on.
Monitoring & Reliability
- Implement proactive monitoring with Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, Log Analytics .
- Define and tune SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets aligned to business outcomes.
Collaboration & Agile Practices
- Partner with product and engineering teammates in agile ceremonies: planning, standups, retrospectives, release management, and post-incident reviews.
Looking For
5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineering, with full-stack application exposure.
Mandatory Skills
A. Technical
- Proven expertise in Azure and GCP cloud architecture and automation.
- Hands-on with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes .
- Strong with CI/CD tooling: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD .
- Familiarity with security frameworks such as FedRAMP, FIPS, CIS Benchmarks .
- Experience with container security, image scanning, and supply chain security.
- Proficiency in scripting: Bash, Python, or PowerShell .
- Application-level comfort: building or maintaining portal-style web apps (modern JS/TS frontend plus a REST backend).
- Working fluency with AI-first development : daily use of AI coding assistants, prompt and context discipline, comfort reviewing AI-generated output for correctness and security.
- Excellent troubleshooting across infrastructure, network, and application layers.
B. Soft Skills
- Strong written and verbal English; able to collaborate in US-EST hours.
- Clear, accountable communicator.
- Strong problem-solving instincts.
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Ownership: takes responsibility for end-to-end delivery.
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Collaboration: builds trust across teams and communicates transparently.
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Adaptability: adjusts quickly to new priorities and technologies.
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Continuous learning: proactively explores automation, AI, and new DevOps practices.
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Security mindset: integrates security at every stage of development and deployment.
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Outcome focus: measures success through reliability, speed, and cost efficiency.
Good to Have
- Certifications: Azure (AZ-104/AZ-400), GCP (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer), CKA/CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform As