Principal Cloud Ops Engineer

Geomatik; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Octave is seeking a Principal Cloud Ops Engineer to oversee the deployment, maintenance, and optimization of cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure security, availability, and performance of cloud services, drive automation initiatives, and resolve complex operational issues.

This role requires strong proficiency across AWS/Azure/GCP, IaC, PowerShell, Kubernetes, and cloud monitoring solutions to deliver scalable and reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, encryption and IAM.
• Ability to diagnose incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Experience with automation and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to document solutions and publish knowledge base articles.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and communicate outages clearly.
• Monitor performance metrics and implement corrective actions.
• Guide teams on vulnerability remediation and security best practices.
• Collaborate to automate repetitive tasks and improve reliability.
• Create and maintain a knowledge base for customer FAQs and internal docs.

Skills

Performance monitoring

Cloud security (IAM, encryption)

Resource optimization

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Documentation/knowledge base

Collaboration across teams

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

PowerShell

Kubernetes

Cloud monitoring solutions

Job description

• Ensure high availability of production environments by monitoring performance metrics and implementing corrective actions when necessary.
• Ensure that cloud infrastructure adheres to industry best practices for security, including encryption, identity, and access management (IAM), and monitoring.
• Monitor cloud usage and optimize resource allocation to control cloud spending.
• Hands‑on experience in distributed software monitoring, application performance monitoring & its visual representation
• Provide detailed guidance and support to teams in application vulnerability remediation.
• Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts, diagnose root causes, and implement long‑term solutions to prevent recurrence. Ensure effective communication during outages.
• Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis: To investigate and resolve incidents quickly during crisis situations, performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Work closely with the team in building a knowledge base publishing a collection of documentation that typically includes answers to frequently asked questions by customers.

Education / Qualifications

As a Principal Cloud Ops Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the deployment, maintenance, and optimization of cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure the security, availability, and performance of cloud services, drive automation initiatives, and resolve complex operational issues. This role requires a good understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/ Azure/GCP), infrastructure as code (IaC), PowerShell, Kubernetes and Cloud monitoring solutions to deliver scalable and reliable systems.

About Octave:

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle — Design, Build, Operate and Protect — where performance, safety, and reliability are non‑negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real‑world conditions and enterprise‑scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Octave has approximately 7,200 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave?

All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome

At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.