Senior Cloud Engineer - DevOps & DevSecOps

Job Description 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. - Ownership: takes responsibility for end-to-end delivery. - Collaboration: builds trust across teams and communicates transparently. - Adaptability: adjusts quickly to new priorities and technologies. - Continuous learning: proactively explores automation, AI, and new DevOps practices. - Security mindset: integrates security at every stage of development and deployment. - 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 Associate. - Prior experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, BFSI, healthcare).