Cloud Engineer

Position Overview

• The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud platforms, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability solutions, ensuring scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud operations across multiple cloud providers.
• We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage our multi-cloud infrastructure.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure Management:

• Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud solutions
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architectures, configurations, and runbooks
• Design, deploy, and manage multi-cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud workloads
• Migrate on-premises applications and services to cloud environments with minimal disruption
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and implement auto-scaling policies
• Manage cloud resources including compute instances and networking components

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration:

• Manage Kubernetes cluster upgrades, scaling, and performance optimization
• Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies for microservices architectures
• Implement multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes deployments for high availability
• Troubleshoot complex container and orchestration issues in production environments
• Design, deploy, and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers
• Configure and manage Kubernetes resource objects

Service Mesh & Advanced Networking:

• Implement advanced traffic routing (canary deployments, A/B testing, traffic splitting) using Istio
• Configure Istio traffic management, including virtual services, destination rules, and gateways
• Implement multi-cluster service mesh architectures across different cloud providers
• Configure Istio ingress and egress gateways for external traffic management
• Implement circuit breaking, retries, timeouts, and fault injection for resilience testing
• Monitor and optimize service mesh performance and resource utilization
• Design, deploy, and manage Istio service mesh for microservices communication and observability
• Deploy and manage Istio observability components (telemetry, distributed tracing, service graphs)

Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing:

• Implement HAProxy ACLs, backend routing, health checks, and session persistence
• Deploy, configure, and manage HAProxy for high-performance load balancing and reverse proxy
• Optimize HAProxy and Nginx performance for high-throughput environments
• Configure Nginx for rate limiting and request filtering
• Design and implement Nginx as reverse proxy for web applications and API gateways
• Manage Nginx Plus features for advanced traffic management and monitoring
• Implement Nginx load balancing algorithms and upstream health monitoring

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management:

• Manage infrastructure drift detection and remediation
• Develop Ansible playbooks and roles for automated server provisioning and configuration
• Implement infrastructure version control, code review processes, and GitOps practices
• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation and architecture diagrams
• Implement policy-as-code using tools like OPA (Open Policy Agent) or Sentinel
• Create reusable, modular Terraform configurations for various cloud resources and Implement Terraform state management and remote backends
• Design and implement configuration management solutions using Ansible
• Integrate Terraform and Ansible workflows for end-to-end infrastructure automation
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform

CI/CD Pipeline Management:

• Manage ArgoCD application definitions, sync policies and multi-cluster deployments
• Integrate security scanning (SAST, DAST, container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab)
• Configure Jenkins jobs, pipelines, and shared libraries for automated build, configure build agents, runners, and execution environments
• Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for declarative application delivery
• Design, implement, and maintain continuous integration pipelines using Jenkins and Harness
• Implement Harness deployment pipelines for cloud-native applications
• Optimize build times and pipeline efficiency
• Implement progressive delivery strategies (blue-green deployments, canary releases) using ArgoCD
• Implement continuous deployment workflows using ArgoCD for Kubernetes-based applications

Message Streaming & Event-Driven Architecture:

• Optimize Kafka performance for high-throughput and low-latency use cases
• Deploy and manage Apache Kafka clusters for real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures
• Monitor Kafka cluster health, performance metrics, and consumer lag
• Troubleshoot Kafka producer and consumer issues
• Implement Kafka Connect for data integration with various sources and sinks
• Configure Kafka topics, partitions, replication factors, and retention policies

Database & Proxy Management:

• Implement query routing, caching, and connection pooling strategies using ProxySQL
• Deploy, configure, and manage ProxySQL for MySQL load balancing and high availability
• Optimize database performance through ProxySQL query analysis and optimization
• Integrate ProxySQL with database clusters and replication topologies
• Implement database failover and disaster recovery using ProxySQL
• Implement database access security and audit logging through ProxySQL
• Monitor ProxySQL metrics and troubleshoot connection and performance issues

Cloud Networking:

• Design and implement private connectivity between cloud providers
• Configure and manage cloud load balancers (Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Cloud Load Balancing)
• Design and implement cloud networking architectures, including VPCs, subnets, and network segmentation
• Implement network security controls, including security groups, network ACLs, and firewall rules
• Troubleshoot complex networking issues across multi-cloud environments
• Implement VPN connections, Direct Connect/Interconnect, and hybrid cloud networking solutions
• Implement network monitoring and traffic analysis

Secrets Management & Security:

• Migrate secrets from legacy systems to Vault
• Implement dynamic database credentials and secret rotation strategies
• Manage Vault high availability clusters and disaster recovery procedures
• Implement Vault agent and sidecar injectors for Kubernetes workloads
• Configure and manage HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management across multi-cloud environments
• Manage Vault encryption as a service for application-level encryption
• Configure Vault secret engines (KV, database, PKI, AWS, GCP, Azure dynamic secrets)

Qualifications, Competency & Skills Required
Education & Experience:

• Relevant cloud and technology certifications are highly desirable
• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• Hands-on experience managing production workloads across multiple cloud platforms
• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles

Technical Skills:
Cloud Platforms (Required):

• Multi-cloud architecture design and implementation experience
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Deep expertise in Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, VPC, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, IAM
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Proficiency in EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, ECS, CloudFormation, IAM
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): Familiarity with Compute, OKE, Object Storage, networking, and OCI-specific services
• Microsoft Azure: Experience with Virtual Machines, AKS, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Virtual Networks, Azure Functions, ARM templates
• Cloud migration strategies and execution (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, re-architecting)

Container & Orchestration (Required):

• Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster architecture, networking, storage, and security
• Proficiency in Docker containerization, image optimization, and registry management
• Experience with Helm charts for application packaging and deployment
• Hands-on experience with managed Kubernetes services (GKE, EKS, AKS)
• Knowledge of container runtime environments (containerd, CRI-O)

Service Mesh & Microservices (Required):

• Istio: Deep expertise in Istio architecture, deployment, and operations
• Service mesh troubleshooting and performance optimization
• Experience with other service mesh solutions (Linkerd, Consul Connect) is a plus
• Istio security features (mTLS, authorization policies, peer authentication, request authentication)
• Understanding of sidecar proxy patterns and Envoy proxy
• Istio observability and telemetry configuration
• Istio traffic management (virtual services, destination rules, gateways, service entries)
• Multi-cluster and multi-mesh deployments

Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing (Required):

• Nginx rate limiting, and performance tuning
• High availability configurations using keepalived, VRRP, or similar
• Nginx load balancing algorithms and upstream configurations
• HAProxy Advanced configuration and management for load balancing and high availability
• Integration with Kubernetes ingress controllers (Nginx Ingress, Istio Ingress)
• Experience with Nginx modules and custom configurations
• Nginx Expert-level configuration as reverse proxy and API gateway

Infrastructure as Code (Required):

• Terraform module development, state management, and workspace strategies
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and GitOps workflows
• Ansible playbook development, roles, and inventory management
• Infrastructure testing frameworks (Terratest, Kitchen-Terraform)
• Advanced Terraform skills for multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning
• Proficiency in Ansible for configuration management and automation

CI/CD Tools (Required):

• Harness: Deployment pipeline configuration, workflow creation, approval gates
• Artifact repository management (Nexus, Artifactory, cloud-native registries)
• Jenkins: Pipeline development (declarative and scripted), shared libraries, plugin management
• ArgoCD: GitOps workflows, application synchronization, multi-cluster management
• Integration of CI/CD tools with Kubernetes and cloud platforms
• Automated testing and deployment strategies

Messaging & Streaming (Required):

• Kafka topic design, partitioning strategies, and performance tuning
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and patterns
• Experience with Kafka management tools (Kafka Manager, Cruise Control)
• Apache Kafka architecture, cluster management, and operations
• Kafka Connect experience

Database & Proxy Technologies (Required):

• MySQL database administration basics
• ProxySQL configuration, management, and optimization
• Understanding of database replication and clustering

Observability & Monitoring (Required):

• Log aggregation and analysis
• Grafana dashboard design and visualization techniques
• Prometheus metrics collection, PromQL, and alerting rules

Networking (Required):

• Cloud networking concepts (VPC, subnets, routing tables, NAT, VPN)
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and network protocols
• Network security and firewall configuration
• Software-defined networking (SDN) concepts
• Service discovery and DNS-based routing
• Load balancing strategies and implementations

Scripting & Programming:

• Proficient in scripting languages: Python, Bash
• Go or python programming basics for tooling development
• Understanding of software development best practices
• YAML and JSON for configuration management

Secrets Management (Required):

• HashiCorp Vault: Advanced knowledge of Vault architecture, deployment, and operations
• Vault secret engines (KV v1/v2, database, transit, cloud dynamic...
• Vault authentication methods and integration with cloud providers and Kubernetes