Cloud Engineer (4–6 Years Experience)

Job Title: Cloud Engineer (4 6 Years Experience)
Shift - 9am to 6pm (Mon to Fri)

Location Santa Clara CA
Onsite Requirement Yes
Number of days onsite (Onsite 5 days/week

Must Have Skills
Skill 1 - 3 5 years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role
Skill 2 Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services (VMs VNETs App Services Storage Azure AD).
Skill 3 Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform ARM/Bicep or CloudFormation
Skill 4 Good understanding of networking concepts security and cloud governance

Job Description:
Role Overview
We are seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer with 3 5 years of experience in designing deploying and managing cloud-based solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with both Microsoft Azure and AWS along with working knowledge of container platforms and DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities
- Design deploy and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure and AWS.
- Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM networking and data protection.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools.
- Work with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Monitor system performance availability and cost optimization.
- Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to support cloud-native solutions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Troubleshoot cloud environment issues and provide root cause analysis.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- 3 5 years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services (VMs VNETs App Services Storage Azure AD).
- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS CloudWatch).
- Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS preferred).
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins etc.).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform ARM/Bicep or CloudFormation.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
- Good understanding of networking concepts security and cloud governance.
- Strong communication systems thinking and cross organizational collaboration abilities.
-Experience designing or supporting large-scale high-availability cloud-native architectures

Preferred Qualifications

- Cloud certifications such as Azure Administrator Azure Solutions Architect AWS Solutions Architect.
- Experience with scripting languages like Python PowerShell or Bash.
- Exposure to microservices architecture.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and continuously improve.