Cloud Operations Lead

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Job Description

Role
Cloud Operations Lead

Location
Onsite or Hybrid

Experience
5-8 years

Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.

Number of Positions
1

Skills Required


Technical Skills

  • Expertise with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus).
  • Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates).
  • Experience with incident management frameworks (ITIL, SRE principles, PagerDuty/On-Call rotations).
  • Understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, GKE) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks.

Soft Skills

  • Proven ability to lead and motivate teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills.
  • Ability to collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities


Role Overview

The Cloud Operations Lead is responsible for ensuring the stability, availability, security, and performance of all cloud-based systems and services. This role focuses on operational excellence, including monitoring, incident response, change management, and capacity planning. The Cloud Operations Lead coordinates cross-functional teams, optimizes cloud resources for cost efficiency, and drives automation to reduce manual work.

Key Responsibilities


Cloud Operations & Reliability
  • Own day-to-day operations of all production, staging, and development cloud environments.
  • Ensure high availability of services by maintaining robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
  • Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-mortem reviews to drive continuous improvement.
  • Implement observability practices (logging, tracing, metrics) to proactively detect and resolve issues.
  • Oversee patch management and maintenance activities to keep systems secure and up-to-date.

Automation & Optimization

  • Develop and maintain automation scripts for cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and monitoring.
  • Optimize cloud cost usage through rightsizing, reserved instances, and cost governance policies (FinOps).
  • Standardize runbooks and operational playbooks for common tasks and incidents.

Security & Compliance

  • Enforce security baselines (IAM, encryption, network segmentation) across all cloud services.
  • Collaborate with security teams to implement cloud-native security tools and respond to threats.
  • Ensure compliance with regulations and audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA where applicable).

Team Leadership & Collaboration

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of cloud operations engineers.
  • Foster a culture of SRE/DevOps best practices, promoting automation and reliability.
  • Work closely with application, DevOps, and networking teams to support business-critical services.
  • Act as escalation point for critical incidents and operational challenges.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

  • Manage relationships with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and monitoring tool vendors.
  • Provide regular status updates and operational metrics to senior management.
  • Collaborate with finance to align on cloud cost forecasts and budget planning.

Other Information


Educational Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
  • 5–8 years of experience in cloud operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or IT infrastructure.
  • 2+ years in a leadership role managing operational teams.

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Mail to
careers@tcgdigital.com

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