Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

REQUIRED SKILLS & COMPETENCIES •        Public cloud platforms — AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform •        Cloud IAM and RBAC — roles, policies, service accounts, key rotation, MFA and SSO federation •        IaaS provisioning — compute instances, auto-scaling, load balancing and security groups •        PaaS management — managed databases, application services and serverless platforms •        Cloud networking — virtual networks, subnets, routing, VPN gateways, DNS and web application firewalls •        Cloud network virtual appliance firewalls and cloud-native security group management •        Kubernetes — EKS, AKS or GKE with Rancher; cluster management, namespaces, RBAC and network policies •        GitOps and continuous deployment — Argo CD; app-of-apps patterns, drift remediation and rollback •        CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions and Jenkins; build, test, lint, image pipeline and promotion workflows •        Infrastructure as code — Terraform for cloud resource provisioning across multiple providers •        AWS, Azure and GCP management — multi-cloud operations, governance and compliance •        Cloud security — posture management, CIS benchmarks, vulnerability scanning and privilege governance •        Cost governance — monitoring, alerting, right-sizing and tagging policy enforcement •        Cloud VM patching — cloud-native patch management services and image pipeline automation •        Observability integration — log forwarding, metrics ingestion and cloud-native monitoring

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES •        Provision and manage cloud accounts and environments following security and governance standards •        Design and maintain cloud IAM and RBAC across all providers — roles, policies, service accounts and key rotation •        Build and manage cloud networking — virtual networks, routing, VPN, DNS, WAF and cloud firewall rules •        Provision and scale IaaS compute instances with auto-scaling, load balancing and cost governance •        Manage PaaS services — deployment, scaling, access control and cost monitoring across all cloud providers •        Provision and maintain Kubernetes clusters; manage workloads, namespaces, RBAC and network policies •        Implement and operate Argo CD GitOps pipelines for application and infrastructure deployment •        Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and Jenkins for build, hardening and promotion •        Manage cloud VM patching and golden image pipelines to maintain security compliance •        Monitor and respond to cloud security posture findings and privilege governance alerts •        Maintain cost governance dashboards and respond to budget threshold alerts •        Contribute to infrastructure as code repositories and participate in code review