Consultant Expert - Public Cloud

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre is looking for an experienced Cloud Consultant with 8–15 years in cloud infrastructure. The role involves collaborating with teams globally and promoting cloud adoption initiatives. Candidates should possess strong skills in AWS/Azure, Python programming, and cloud security. Preferred certifications include Azure/AWS Certified Solution Architect. This position offers an inclusive environment focused on diversity and equal opportunity for all applicants.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years of experience in cloud infrastructure.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to drive cloud adoption initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with global, cross-functional teams.
• Train and empower internal teams on cloud competencies.
• Identify customer needs and propose new cloud services.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure expertise

Strong hands-on knowledge in AWS/Azure

Multi-cloud networking

Python programming

Cloud Security knowledge

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Azure/AWS Certified Solution Architect or DevOps professional

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Overview

Reference 260006KV

We are seeking an experienced public cloud consultant/expert – domain experience ranging between 8-15 years requiring strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure and the ability to drive cloud adoption initiatives across the organization.

Responsibilities

• You will be a key member of the Cloud Professional Services team, responsible for collaborating effectively with global, cross-functional teams with a focus on teamwork and mentoring.
• Playing an active role in training, consulting, and enabling internal teams to build cloud competencies and accelerate cloud adoption/migration across the organization.
• Identifying customer needs and proposing new services, capabilities, and modernization opportunities in private cloud environments.
• Ensuring all solutions incorporate best practices for multi-cloud security, governance, and operational reliability.
• Evaluating new technologies, conducting proof-of-concepts, and providing hands-on implementation guidance.
• Developing and maintaining automation workflows, scripts, or tooling using Python programming languages.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with Product Owners and key business stakeholders; provide product vision and strategic direction to the team.
• Continuous Improvement: Promote best practices in cloud engineering, DevOps, and automation; ensure compliance with organizational standards and regulatory requirements.

Technical Requirements

• Strong hands-on knowledge across major cloud platforms (AWS / Azure) including compute, storage, networking, databases, middleware, serverless, and security.
• Good understanding of multi-cloud networking concepts such as virtual networks, gateways, VPNs, and public/private/elastic IPs.
• Hands-on experience with cloud services.
• Practical experience with containerization.
• Solid knowledge of Cloud Security including IAM, threat mitigation, and zero-trust/default-deny models.
• Hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, or Cloud Blueprints.
• Ability to write, understand, and maintain automation pipelines, scripts, or orchestration workflows using Python or comparable programming languages.
• Experience designing or adopting CI/CD frameworks and infrastructure provisioning blueprints is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud-native design patterns and modernization of legacy applications for cloud deployment.
• Strong presentation, communication, and knowledge-sharing skills with the ability to train teams, mentor engineers, and actively encourage cloud adoption across the organization.

Qualifications

• Preferred Certifications: Azure/AWS Certified Solution Architect or DevOps professional.
• Excellent understanding of business domain, operating environment, constraints, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to collaborate with external teams for high performance.

Soft Skills

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to influence and drive change across teams.

Profile required

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to influence and drive change across teams.

Why join us

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Business insight

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!