Lead/Architect Cloud Infrastructure

Team: Engineering and Product Management

Location: Hyderabad

Commitment: Full Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Responsibilities:

• Design, architect, and implement scalable, highly available, and secure infrastructure solutions, primarily on Google Cloud.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for enterprise-scale maintainability and repeatability.

• Utilize Kubernetes deployment tools such as Helm/Kustomize in combination with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD for container orchestration and management.

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Cloud Build, Harness, etc., with a focus on rolling deployments, canaries, and blue/green deployments.

• Ensure auditability and observability of pipeline states.

• Implement security best practices, audit, and compliance requirements within the infrastructure.

• Provide technical mentorship and training to engineering staff.

• Engage with customers to understand their technical and business requirements, and provide tailored solutions.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues.

• Lead and participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for production issues.

• Manage incident lifecycle activities including triage, escalation, communication, and post-incident reviews.

• Monitor application and infrastructure health using observability platforms and monitoring tools.

• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve service reliability.

Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering or similar role.

• Extensive experience with Google Cloud.

• Proven ability to architect for scale, availability, and high-performance workloads.

• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and related tools (Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD).

• Solid understanding of Git, branching models, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies.

• Experience with security, audit, and compliance best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical

stakeholders.

• Experience in technical mentoring, team-forming, and fostering self-organization and ownership.

• Experience with customer relationship management and project planning.

• Strong experience with incident management processes and major incident handling.

• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring.

• Knowledge of logging, metrics, tracing, and distributed observability concepts.

• Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies

Certifications:

• Relevant certifications (e.g., Kubernetes Certified Administrator, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud

Architect, etc.).

• Software development experience (e.g., Terraform, Python).

• Experience/Exposure with machine learning infrastructure.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.