Description
Design, build, and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and services across public and hybrid environments. Solve complex application, operations, and network challenges, automate provisioning and integration, and perform ongoing management and optimization of cloud systems.
- • Partner with stakeholders to capture cloud requirements and workload characteristics.
- • Advise on cloud costs, architecture options, and design changes.
- • Document cloud architectures, IaC modules, runbooks, and procedures.
- • Validate reliability, interoperability, portability, security, and scalability of cloud designs.
- • Collaborate with developers, operations, and security to ensure compatible cloud solutions.
- • Evaluate cloud services and emerging technologies for cost, portability, compatibility, and usability.
- • Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting for cloud infrastructure and services.
- • Identify required compute, storage, network, and managed services to meet user needs.
- • Provide guidelines for secure cloud implementations, including IAM, segmentation, and encryption.
- • Monitor cloud environments to detect incidents, performance issues, and anomalies.
- • Lead analysis, design, and operations of cloud and hybrid environments.
- • Assess service and component suitability and recommend options (instances, databases, messaging).
- • Maintain environments by patching images, updating IaC, and upgrading services.
- • Configure VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, compute, containers, and managed services.
- • Develop or approve cloud project plans, migration schedules, and budgets.
- • Define and analyze objectives, scope, risks, and organizational impact of cloud initiatives.
- • Design and implement distributed, integrated cloud architectures and microservices platforms.
- • Design and execute tests for infrastructure changes, failover, and disaster recovery.
- • Establish cloud standards, guardrails, and policies for operations, quality, compliance, and cost.
- • Review existing cloud deployments and recommend performance, reliability, and cost optimizations.
- • Research, test, and validate OS updates, container images, and service patches.
- • Communicate project status and designs through diagrams, briefings, and technical reports.
- • Model capacity and run performance simulations to predict scaling behavior.
- • Provision and configure resources using infrastructure-as-code and automation pipelines.
- • Train teams on cloud services, security, and operational best practices.
- • Perform security assessments and compliance checks of cloud workloads and pipelines.
- • Develop application-specific automation and tooling, including CI/CD and serverless functions.
- • Design and tune autoscaling, orchestration, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
