Cloud Engineer Lead

Good co India; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India is seeking a seasoned Cloud Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role focuses on modernizing workloads, driving secure architectures, and championing automation through IaC.

You will collaborate with DevOps, security, and architecture teams to ensure reliable, cost-efficient, and compliant cloud solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE or related field is required.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP in production.
• Proven ability to design scalable, highly available cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and management of secure cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Drive migration, modernization, and optimization of workloads to the cloud.
• Define IaC standards and implement Terraform/CloudFormation solutions.

Skills

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE

Tools

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of secure, scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Define cloud architecture standards, infrastructure strategies, and best practices aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives, including the transition of on-premises workloads to cloud environments.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Manage cloud networking, compute, storage, databases, identity management, and connectivity across cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure provisioning workflows to improve deployment efficiency.
• Implement cloud security controls, IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure infrastructure reliability and performance.
• Drive cloud cost optimization through resource right-sizing, capacity planning, budgeting, and FinOps practices.
• Design and implement high-availability architectures, disaster recovery strategies, backup solutions, and business continuity plans.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, networking, performance, and deployment issues while leading incident resolution.
• Collaborate with application development, DevOps, SRE, security, and architecture teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.
• Evaluate emerging cloud services and technologies to improve scalability, operational efficiency, security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Lead technical reviews, establish cloud governance policies, and maintain architecture documentation and operational procedures.
• Mentor cloud engineers, review technical implementations, allocate engineering tasks, and support team development.
• Track cloud infrastructure KPIs, service availability, security posture, resource utilization, and project delivery outcomes.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related technical roles, with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong hands-on expertise in at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud architectures for production workloads, including high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Bicep.
• Experience with CI/CD automation, Git-based workflows, configuration management, and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, firewalls, routing, and hybrid-cloud connectivity.
• Knowledge of container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, and modern application deployment architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, secrets management, governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize cloud spending, manage resource utilization, and implement FinOps practices.
• Experience leading cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, automation, and platform reliability initiatives.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical thinking, system design, and technical decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
• Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, are preferred.
• Ability to balance technical execution, team leadership, operational reliability, security, and business priorities.