Senior Cloud Ops Engineer

Senior Cloud Ops Engineer

Project description

As a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining a highly scalable and secure cloud infrastructure. The role involves applying best practices in cloud governance, security, monitoring, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) to ensure smooth and efficient cloud operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance cloud efficiency, reliability, and security while ensuring compliance with industry/security standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and administer cloud environments across platforms; provide support for a broad range of cloud services, ensuring consistent support delivery and timely resolution of issues
• Implement and enforce governance policies, such as access control, tagging, cost management, guardrails, SCPs, and resource monitoring, to ensure adherence to company-wide security standards.
• Proactively identify security vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.
• Implement, and manage automation scripts and tools to streamline cloud operations, including infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for the automated deployment of applications and services in a scalable and secure manner.
• Monitor system performance, analyze metrics, and implement improvements to ensure efficient utilization of cloud resources
• Collaborate with peers on troubleshooting technical issues; assist in implementing technical strategies established by the team
• Aid in implementing disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and maintain business continuity in accordance with the team's guidelines
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold Optum's respectful and courteous work environment

Skills

• Must have

• 8+ years of experience

• 3+ years Leadership / Supervisory experience

• Strong understanding of GCP.

• Proficiency in data analysis and programming languages like Python, PowerShell.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Advanced CI/CD expertise with GitHub actions.

• Proficiency with Cloud monitoring and Cloud networking

• Ability to utilize AI for automation and analysis

• GCP

• Python, PowerShell

• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) proficiency

• Advanced CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions

• Nice to have

• Tagging

• Guardrails

• SCPs

• Continuous deployment

• Automated deployment of applications and services

• Scalable and secure cloud infrastructure

• Compliance with industry/security standards

• Collaboration with cross-functional teams

• Technical strategy implementation

• Other

• Languages

• English: C1 Advanced

• Seniority

• Senior

• Remote India, India

• 30/09/2026

• Senior Cloud Ops Engineer in Remote India

• Note: This section has been removed to focus on the core job responsibilities and required qualifications.