Azure Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 5 years of hands-on expertise in designing, architecting, and managing cloud and on-premises environments. The ideal candidate will have strong ownership capabilities across Azure and AWS operations, a security- first mindset, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including SOC, NOC, and business stakeholders.

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Cloud Operations and Architecture:

• Take complete ownership of operational tasks across Azure and AWS environments.
• Design and architect cloud solutions in alignment with organisational (ABG) standards.
• Support cloud implementation and setup in collaboration with the support team.
• Troubleshoot cloud issues for internal users, providing timely resolution.

Security and Compliance:

• Own all security-related activities and proactively mitigate identified risks.
• Regularly scan for open ports, weak policies, and non-compliant resources using existing tooling, monitor and act on CNAPP alerts to maintain a healthy security posture.
• Execute cloud patching activities across AWS and Azure on a scheduled basis, on-premises.

Infrastructure for User Management:

• Manage and maintain on- premises servers, including network connectivity, OS, and runtime upgrades.
• Manage and onboard on-premises users to internal systems and tools.
• Administer GitHub Copilot, including user onboarding, license tracking, inactive user removal, and monitoring.

Billing and Cross-team Coordination:

• Generate monthly cloud billing reports and investigate anomalies proactively.
• Conduct root cause analysis for infrastructure and cloud issues and implement fixes.
• Coordinate with users, SOC, NOC, and the Cloud team to ensure timely resolution of tasks.
• Technical Expertise Area: Technologies / Skills Cloud Platforms.
• Azure (Full Stack), AWS (EC2 IAM, VPC, S3 CloudWatch).

Security and Compliance:

• CNAPP, Security Policies, Open Port Scanning, Cloud.
• Patching On-Premises Server Management, Network Connectivity, OS & Runtime Upgrades.
• Monitoring and Billing Cost Anomaly Detection, Monthly Billing Reports, Alert Management, Developer Tools, GitHub Copilot Administration, and User Lifecycle Management.
• Good to Have: Terraform, Bicep, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, ServiceNow.

Cloud Operations and Architecture:

• Take complete ownership of operational tasks across Azure and AWS environments.
• Design and architect cloud solutions in alignment with organisational (ABG) standards.
• Support cloud implementation and setup in collaboration with the support team.
• Troubleshoot cloud issues for internal users, providing timely resolution.

Security and Compliance:

• Own all security-related activities and proactively mitigate identified risks.
• Regularly scan for open ports, weak policies, and non-compliant resources using existing tooling.
• Monitor and act on CNAPP alerts to maintain a healthy security posture.
• Execute cloud patching activities across AWS and Azure on a scheduled basis.

On-Premises Infrastructure and User Management:

• Manage and maintain on-premises servers, including network connectivity, OS, and runtime upgrades.
• Manage and onboard on-premises users to internal systems and tools.
• Administer GitHub Copilot, including user onboarding, license tracking, and inactive user removal.

Monitoring, Billing and Cross-team Coordination:

• Generate monthly cloud billing reports and investigate anomalies proactively.
• Conduct root cause analysis for infrastructure and cloud issues and implement fixes.
• Coordinate with users, SOC, NOC, and the Cloud team to ensure timely resolution of tasks.
• Education: Graduates only (please ignore pursuing/drop out/12th or 10th pass).

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure or cloud engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience managing production cloud environments on Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal; ability to clearly articulate technical decisions.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and ownership-driven approach.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Must be available to work from our Bengaluru office (Hybrid).

Mandatory Skills:

• Azure & AWS complete operational ownership of cloud environments.
• Cloud Architecture designing and architecting solutions aligned to organisational standards.
• Cloud Security ownership of security posture, CNAPP alerts, open port scanning, and policy compliance.
• Cloud Patching patch management across AWS and Azure environments.
• On-Premises Infrastructure managing servers, network connectivity, OS and runtime upgrades, GitHub.
• Copilot Administration user onboarding, inactive user lifecycle management.
• Billing and Cost Management, generating monthly billing reports and monitoring for anomalies.
• Root Cause Analysis, identifying and resolving cloud and infrastructure issues, and cross-team.
• Collaboration coordinating with SOC, NOC, Cloud, and Support teams.
• Good to have skills in Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric.
• AWS native services: EC2 VPC, IAM, CloudTrail, GuardDuty. Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates.
• Certifications: AZ-104 AZ-305 AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.
• Experience with ITSM tools (ServiceNow or similar).