Senior Cloud Specialist (Data Infrastructure)

Role Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Specialist to architect, deploy, and maintain our enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and modern data platforms. This role will drive the migration of mission-critical systems to fully managed cloud environments, focusing heavily on automation, system resilience, infrastructure hardening, and high availability

1. Cloud Deployment, Configuration & Migration

Deploy and configure solutions in the cloud ecosystem, ensuring seamless integration between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) models.

Lead the end-to-end technical strategy and execution for migrating legacy on-premises systems to cloud-native platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).

Architect and implement multi-region, High Availability (HA), and Disaster Recovery (DR) frameworks, utilizing features like Always-On clustering and Multi-AZ infrastructure.

2. Operations, Automation & Scripting

Automate cloud operations and proactively develop infrastructure automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, or Python to minimize manual workflows, optimize system monitoring, and reduce overhead.

Build out and maintain telemetry, alerting, and logging capabilities across cloud-hosted virtual networks and server clusters.

Conduct root-cause analysis (RCA) on production infrastructure issues, connection drops, and service failures, driving issues through to immediate resolution.

3. Proof of Concepts & Systems Management

Participate in the specification, setup, and running of Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and demonstrations of advanced cloud solutions to validate scalability and cost-efficiency.

Administer and maintain servers across virtual and cloud platforms, performing routine operating system modernization, inventory tracking, and software license audits.

Oversee system lifecycle hygiene, including performance tuning, rebuilding index structures, and defragmentation across distributed networks.

4. Cloud Hardening & Compliance

Execute server infrastructure hardening and apply automated security patches based on vulnerability scan reports (e.g., Qualys, Tenable).

Ensure all cloud deployments comply with corporate data governance, encryption standards (at rest and in transit), and strict enterprise privacy regulations.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant faculty, such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field.

Technical Proficiencies

Cloud Platform Mastery: Deep, demonstrable hands-on experience in public cloud architecture (AWS and Azure ecosystems).

Scripting & Automation: Highly proficient in writing advanced validation scripts using PowerShell or cloud CLI environments.

Systems & Data Tiering: Heavy expertise managing massive scale data tiers, windows clustering, and distributed enterprise database platforms.

Good to have -

Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300)