Architect, Cloud Site Reliability (SRE)

Icertis Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Icertis Inc. seeks a senior CloudOps Leader to architect and run 24x7 cloud operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP while driving scalability, reliability, and cost optimization for the SaaS platform.

You will lead large-scale projects from design to production, partner with Product Engineering, SRE, Security, and stakeholders, and ensure operational excellence in a fast-moving environment. Responsibilities include implementing cloud-native approaches, automating incident response, and shaping a

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of experience in mission-critical, 24x7 Cloud Operations/SRE teams in B2B/B2C SaaS
• Experience designing and implementing across Azure (primarily), AWS and GCP
• Proven leadership of large teams in fast-changing environments
• Strong customer focus, SLAs and delivery under pressure
• Ability to simplify complex issues and drive agile execution

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead large-scale cloud/infrastructure projects across Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Drive end-to-end initiatives from POC to production with architecture, implementation, and handover
• Lead project delivery, managing scope, milestones, risks, and cross-functional collaboration
• Provide technical leadership for 24x7 multi-cloud environments ensuring stability and resilience
• Drive observability, automation, self-healing, and proactive incident prevention
• Evaluate and adopt cloud-native technologies to improve scalability and cost efficiency
• Design and implement cloud security and data protection solutions across cloud services
• Lead performance analysis and cloud cost optimization and FinOps best practices
• Partner with Microsoft, Amazon, Google to evaluate new technologies and resolve challenges
• Collaborate with internal/external customers on performance, reliability, security and issue resolution

Skills

Cloud Operations

SRE Leadership

Cost Optimization

Incident Management

Automation

Observability

Security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng or related

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure Monitor

Datadog

Job description

About CloudOps Team:

CloudOps team is responsible for Availability, Reliability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Monitoring, Emergency Response, and Capacity Planning of Icertis SaaS application & related services. CloudOps executes Infra & Access Provisioning, Upgrades, Deployments & Change management to drive faster time to market. This team plays critical part in building & executing the cloud strategy for the company.

Job Description

About CloudOps Team: CloudOps team is responsible for Availability, Reliability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Monitoring, Emergency Response, and Capacity Planning of Icertis SaaS application & related services. CloudOps also drives architectural improvements to improve scalability & optimize overall cost.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead large-scale cloud and infrastructure projects focused on scalability, performance, reliability, availability, security, and cost optimization across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Drive initiatives end-to-end from POC to production, including technical evaluation, architecture, implementation, rollout, and operational handover.
• Lead project delivery and execution, managing technical scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and collaboration across Product Engineering, SRE, Security, and other stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership for 24x7 mission-critical multi-cloud environments, ensuring operational stability, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Drive observability, telemetry, automation, self-healing, and proactive incident prevention to improve platform reliability and reduce production issues.
• Evaluate and adopt cloud-native technologies and modern architectures to improve scalability, agility, performance, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Design and implement cloud security and data protection solutions, including encryption at rest and in transit, Azure Key Vault, Customer-Managed Keys (CMK), Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), key rotation, certificate management, and encryption capabilities across Azure services.
• Lead application and infrastructure performance analysis and drive end-to-end cloud cost optimization and FinOps best practices.
• Partner with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to evaluate new technologies, optimize cloud services, resolve technical challenges, and drive innovation.
• Work with internal and external customers on performance, reliability, security, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and resolution of critical technical issues, while driving knowledge management and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Experience & Leadership

• 12 to 15+ years in mission-critical, 24x7 Cloud Operations/SRE teams within B2B/B2C SaaS organizations.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale solutions across Azure (Primarily) , AWS, GCP.
• Proven experience leading large teams in complex, fast-changing, 24x7 environments.
• Strong customer focus, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships, meet SLAs/deadlines and deliver results under pressure.
• Ability to simplify complex technical issues, develop innovative solutions/workarounds and operate effectively in agile, constantly changing environments.

Cloud, Systems & Networking

• Strong systems and network architecture expertise across Linux/Windows, SQL databases, compute, storage and cloud networking.
• Hands-on Windows and Linux administration and troubleshooting across compute, memory, storage, processes, services, networking and kernel/system issues.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux, SQL database and network administration, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, SSH, firewalls, certificates, permissions and system hardening.
• Experience managing systems at scale, including patching, vulnerability remediation, OS upgrades, configuration management and performance optimization.
• Strong scripting/automation skills using PowerShell, Bash/Shell, or Python.

AKS / Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting large-scale production AKS/Kubernetes environments.
• Strong Linux administration skills across Ubuntu/RHEL and container environments.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, container images, Dockerfiles, container registries (ACR), and container security.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge covering workloads, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs/CronJobs, Namespaces, scheduling, probes, PDBs, HPA, and Cluster Autoscaler.
• Strong AKS networking and security expertise, including Azure CNI, IP/subnet planning, Network Policies, NSGs, UDRs, Load Balancers, DNS, ingress/egress, private clusters, RBAC, Azure RBAC, Managed Identity, and Workload Identity.
• Experience with AKS node pools, VM sizing, availability zones, workload placement, autoscaling, capacity planning, and resource requests/limits.
• Strong experience with AKS monitoring and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Datadog.
• Experience designing highly available, self-healing, scalable, secure, zero-downtime, and disaster-recovery solutions for mission-critical AKS workloads.

About Us

Icertis is the global leader in AI-powered contract intelligence. The Icertis platform revolutionizes contract management, equipping customers with powerful insights and automation to grow revenue, control costs, mitigate risk, and ensure compliance - the pillars of business success. Today, more than one third of the Fortune 100 trust Icertis to realize the full intent of millions of commercial agreements in 90+ countries.

About The Team

Who we a re: Icertis is the only contract intelligence platform companies trust to keep them out in front, now and in the future. Our unwavering commitment to contract intelligence is grounded in our FORTE values-Fairness, Openness, Respect, Teamwork and Execution which guide all our interactions with employees, customers, partners, and stakeholders. Because in our mission to be the contract intelligence platform of the world, we believe how we get there is as important as the destination.

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