Cloud Engineer

Zones India; Dadri; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance Coverage

Group Term Life and Personal Accident Cover

Flexible leave policy

Job summary

Zones India is seeking a Cloud Engineer I to enhance the reliability and security of their enterprise cloud infrastructure. This mid-level position focuses on Azure platform operations and improving automation, monitoring, and backup processes.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in cloud engineering with strong Azure skills, practical knowledge of scripting languages, and a commitment to operational excellence. Benefits include medical insurance, life cover, and flexible leave.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud, infrastructure, or systems engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with Azure core services (VMs, storage, networking, identity/Entra ID).
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, or resiliency planning for enterprise workloads.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support Azure and hybrid infrastructure services in production environments.
• Design, build, and improve automation to reduce manual operational work.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical ECSS-managed platforms.

Skills

Hands-on Azure experience

Automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

Troubleshooting skills

Experience supporting Windows and/or Linux systems

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Bicep

Education

Relevant certifications (Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Associate, Linux certifications)

Job description

Description

Zones is a global solution provider of end‑to‑end IT solutions with an unmatched supply chain. Zones – First Choice for IT.TM – is a minority‑business enterprise with over 35 years of experience specializing in Digital Workplace, Cloud & Data Center, Networking, Security, and Managed/Professional/Staffing services. Operating in more than 120 countries, Zones leverages robust vendor certifications (Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Lenovo, Adobe, and others) to build digital infrastructures that change how businesses operate.

Position Overview

Cloud Engineer I is a mid‑level engineering role focused on improving the reliability, security, and operational maturity of Zones’ enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure platforms. This role sits within the Enterprise Compute & Storage Services (ECSS) team and is designed for an engineer with solid hands‑on Azure experience who drives automation, monitoring, backup, alerting, and IaC across production environments.

This is a builder and improver role—not a ticket‑only or passive operations position. You work directly on production Azure platforms, automate repetitive operational work, improve observability and alert quality, and strengthen recovery readiness.

What You’ll Do

Cloud & Infrastructure Operations

• Operate and support Azure and hybrid infrastructure services in production environments, including compute, storage, networking, and foundational platform services.
• Execute production changes with strong operational rigor, including change control, validation, documentation, and rollback planning.
• Troubleshoot availability, performance, capacity, and configuration issues across cloud and virtualization layers, driving issues to root cause.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation to support critical ECSS‑managed platforms.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Design, build, and improve automation to reduce manual operational work and increase reliability.
• Write and maintain scripts and tooling (PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python) to support platform operations, validation, and incident response.
• Contribute hands‑on to Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Terraform and/or Bicep, including developing, testing, and improving reusable modules and standards.

Monitoring, Alerting & Observability

• Improve observability across ECSS platforms using logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Help tune alerting to reduce noise while improving actionable signal and response quality.
• Participate in incident response, root‑cause analysis, and post‑incident follow‑through, including implementing corrective and preventive improvements.

Backup, Recovery & Resilience

• Support backup and recovery solutions for cloud and hybrid workloads.
• Validate recovery procedures and participate in restore testing and recovery‑readiness activities.
• Improve documentation, runbooks, and operational readiness for backup and disaster recovery scenarios.

Operational Excellence

• Produce and maintain clear runbooks, KB articles, diagrams, and operational documentation.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and improve ECSS operational practices.
• Partner with senior engineers to learn and apply reliability, scalability, and secure design principles.
• Execute all other duties as assigned.

What You Will Bring To The Team

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in cloud, infrastructure, or systems engineering roles.
• Hands‑on Azure experience is required, including day‑to‑day operation and troubleshooting of production workloads.
• Experience supporting Windows and/or Linux systems in production environments.
• Practical experience with automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python).
• Experience working with monitoring, alerting, or logging platforms in a production environment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to drive issues through investigation, resolution, and documentation.
• Experience working in structured operational environments (change management, incident response, runbooks).
• A continuous‑improvement mindset—you look for ways to automate, standardize, and reduce operational toil.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure core services (VMs, storage, networking, identity/Entra ID).
• Exposure to backup, disaster recovery, or resiliency planning for enterprise workloads.
• Experience supporting hybrid environments (Azure + on‑prem virtualized infrastructure).
• Relevant certifications (Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Associate, Linux certifications).

Benefits

• Medical Insurance Coverage
• Group Term Life and Personal Accident Cover
• Flexible leave policy

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.