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Job Description
The Future Begins Here
At Takeda we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities we are meeting the need of patients our people and the planet.
Bengaluru the city which is Indias epicenter of Innovation has been selected to be home to Takedas recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation this role you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.
At Takedas ICC we Unite in Diversity
Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here you will feel welcomed respected and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team
About the Role
The Cloud Engineer role is a key technical position responsible for shaping building and maintaining our AWS cloud foundation. You will play a critical role in architecting secure scalable and highperforming cloud environments that support our products platforms and engineering teams. This role requires a deep understanding of AWS services cloudnative design principles Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and best practices for cost efficiency and operational excellence. This is an individual contributor role with a strong emphasis on handson cloud engineering and infrastructure troubleshooting rather than people management.
You will be responsible for driving cloud standards building reusable Terraform modules optimizing cloud spend implementing governance guardrails and ensuring our cloud footprint remains resilient secure and futureready. This role also involves collaborating closely with DevOps Architecture Security and Development teams to support infrastructure provisioning cloud automation and environment lifecycle management.
The role requires deep handson troubleshooting capabilities across AWS infrastructure and cloud services including diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to networking compute storage security and platform integrations.
As cloud adoption grows across the organization you will influence strategic decisions guide engineering teams on cloud best practices and contribute to the evolution of our cloud architecture including emerging capabilities such as AIassisted SDLC and intelligent automation.
This position will align to the ICC and report to the infrastructure architect for strategic direction as well as day-to-day management.
How you will contribute:
- Design and implement scalable AWS cloud architectures using Terraform and cloudnative best practices.
- Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for standardized provisioning of AWS services.
- Lead cost optimization rightsizing and performance improvements across cloud workloads.
- Strengthen cloud security posture through IAM best practices governance controls and automation.
- Collaborate with DevOps Architecture and Engineering teams to support cloud adoption and environment provisioning.
- Drive reliability monitoring and operational excellence across all cloud platforms.
- Actively troubleshoot support and advance product teams toward organizational goals by promoting managed services standardization and automationfirst cloud patterns.
- Support and integrate infrastructure workflows with CI/CD pipelines to enable automated repeatable and secure deployments of cloud resources.
- Enable cloud security and compliance through automated guardrails policyascode and infrastructurelevel controls in collaboration with DevSecOps teams.
- Provide handson platform support for containerized workloads on EKS including cluster architecture networking scaling and operational troubleshooting.
- Leverage AIassisted tools to improve cloud operations including cost analysis incident triage troubleshooting and infrastructure optimization.
- Guide and influence product teams toward adoption of managed AWS services standardized cloud patterns and reduced operational overhead.
- Support integration with enterprise observability platforms to ensure endtoend visibility across cloud infrastructure and application layers.
Roles and Responsibilities
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure Engineering
- Design build and optimize AWS infrastructure using Terraform and cloudnative architecture patterns.
- Develop reusable versioncontrolled Terraform modules for standardized service provisioning.
- Implement highly available architectures across compute storage databases networking and serverless workloads.
- Contribute to strategic cloud architecture decisions ensuring alignment with scalability and reliability goals.
Cloud Security Governance & Compliance
- Implement IAM best practices including leastprivilege access role boundaries and identity segmentation.
- Enforce cloud governance standards: tagging policies guardrails account structure and compliance baselines.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement encryption logging auditing and continuous compliance tooling.
- Conduct periodic cloud security posture reviews and remediate vulnerabilities.
Operations Monitoring & Reliability
- Build operational dashboards monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch or APM tools.
- Handson troubleshooting of AWS infrastructure issues service disruptions and performance bottlenecks across environments.
- Lead troubleshooting of cloud infrastructure issues performance bottlenecks and service disruptions.
- Drive operational excellence through automation logging strategy and proactive service scaling.
- Implement SREaligned practices such as error budgets resilience patterns and incident response improvements.
Cost Optimization & Performance Management
- Analyze cloud usage and lead costoptimization initiatives including rightsizing and reservedinstance planning.
- Identify opportunities to reduce waste improve resource efficiency and forecast cloud spend.
- Work with product and engineering teams to ensure solutions balance cost with performance and reliability.
Platform Automation & Environment Enablement
- Automate environment provisioning teardown configuration and lifecycle management.
- Build selfservice capabilities for engineering teams through reusable templates and automated workflows.
- Integrate infrastructure workflows with CI/CD pipelines where applicable.
- Support onboarding of new services application teams and workloads into cloud environments.
CrossFunctional Collaboration & Technical Leadership
- Participate in architectural reviews providing cloud bestpractice recommendations.
- Collaborate with DevOps Architecture Security and Development teams on cloud adoption initiatives.
- Enable and guide product and engineering teams toward increased adoption of managed AWS services and reduced operational burden through technical best practices.
- Mentor engineers on AWS technologies Terraform practices and cloud design patterns.
- Support strategic initiatives including AIenabled SDLC intelligent automation and platform modernization.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications
- 5 years of handson experience in cloud engineering or architecture.
- Strong expertise with AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS VPC IAM CloudWatch Lambda EKS API Gateway SQS Load Balancers).
- Proficiency in Terraform including module development and state management.
- Demonstrated experience with cost optimization performance tuning and cloud operations.
- Familiarity with DevOps tools: Git CI/CD monitoring and incident management.
- AWS Certification: Solutions Architect Associate or Professional (mandatory).
- Strong ability to participate in technical discussions and architectural reviews.
Preferred Requirements
- Experience with AIassisted SDLC or AI agent orchestration concepts.
- Knowledge of FinOps practices and cloud budgeting models.
- Hands-on experience with containers (Docker EKS/ECS).
- Experience with security automation and policyascode frameworks.
- Exposure to multicloud platforms (Azure/GCP).
BENEFITS:
It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are:
- Competitive Salary Performance Annual Bonus
- Flexible work environment including hybrid working
- Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self spouse and children
- Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Broad Variety of learning platforms
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion Programs
- Reimbursements Home Internet & Mobile Phone
- Employee Referral Program
- Leaves Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks) Bereavement Leave (5 calendar days)
ABOUT ICC IN TAKEDA:
- Takeda is leading a digital revolution. Were not just transforming our company; were improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day.
- As an organization we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the ICCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.
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Locations
IND - Bengaluru
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time