Principal Cloud Solutions Engineer

Invesco; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,100,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Invesco is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize AWS cloud solutions. You will lead IaC efforts with Terraform/OpenTofu/CloudFormation, automate provisioning with Python and Bash, and drive incident response and security governance.

The role requires hands-on container experience with Docker and Kubernetes and a strong focus on cost efficiency and reliability. As a hybrid worker in India, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu/CloudFormation) and scripting.
• Experience with incident management, RCA, and post-incident actions.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Infrastructure Automation IaC: Develop and manage IaC using Terraform, OpenTofu, and CloudFormation; build reusable Terraform modules; automate provisioning with Python and Bash.
• Incident Management Operational Support: Lead troubleshooting of infra, app, security, and network incidents; participate in on-call; perform RCA and preventive actions.
• Security Compliance: Implement cloud security best practices including IAM, encryption, network security controls, and governance policies.
• Performance Cost Optimization: Evaluate and optimize cloud resources for performance, scalability, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Monitoring, Observability Alerting: Design and manage monitoring with CloudWatch, Splunk, and ServiceNow; create dashboards and alerts.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with development, architecture, security, and infra teams to support deployments and cloud adoption.
• Documentation Knowledge Management: Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, deployment guides, DR plans, and incident reports.
• Hands-on container experience: Deploy and manage Docker/Kubernetes-based cloud-native apps.
• Serverless Architectures: Build serverless solutions using AWS Lambda for scalable, cost-efficient workloads.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Terraform

OpenTofu

CloudFormation

Python

Bash scripting

Incident management

Security compliance

IAM

Cloud monitoring

Splunk

ServiceNow

Docker

Kubernetes

Serverless (AWS Lambda)

Cost optimization

DevOps

Documentation

RCA

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

CloudWatch

Splunk

ServiceNow

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure on AWS. Lead architectural decisions by leveraging AWS best practices across Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, and AI/ML services while ensuring operational excellence and governance compliance.
• Infrastructure Automation IaC: Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, OpenTofu, and AWS CloudFormation. Build reusable, scalable Terraform modules from scratch and implement automation using Python and Bash scripting to streamline provisioning, deployments, configuration management, and operational tasks.
• Incident Management Operational Support: Lead troubleshooting and resolution of infrastructure, application, security, and networking incidents. Participate in on-call rotations, manage major incident responses, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve platform reliability.
• Security Compliance: Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, encryption, network security controls, vulnerability management, and governance policies. Ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards through continuous monitoring and security assessments.
• Performance Cost Optimization: Continuously evaluate and optimize cloud resources to improve performance, scalability, availability, and cost efficiency. Recommend and implement architectural improvements and resource optimization strategies.
• Monitoring, Observability Alerting: Design and manage monitoring and observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, and ServiceNow. Develop dashboards, alerts, and automation workflows to proactively identify issues, improve operational visibility, and minimize service disruptions.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with development, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to support application deployments, modernization initiatives, and cloud adoption programs. Promote DevOps best practices and automation across the organization.
• Documentation Knowledge Management: Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including cloud architectures, operational runbooks, standard operating procedures (SOPs), deployment guides, disaster recovery plans, and incident reports.
• Hands-on container experience: Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing container-based cloud-native applications using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and related container orchestration platforms.
• Serverless Architectures: Strong expertise in building and supporting serverless architectures on cloud platforms (AWS), leveraging services such as AWS Lambda to develop scalable and cost-effective solutions.

Job Details

Job Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No): Yes

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.