Senior Cloud Engineer, SRE

India 6594 Employee Regular Full Time Job Description Overview Sr FinOps Cloud Engineer Focus: Execution, Migration, and Infrastructure Governance You are the technical engine of the FinOps team. You don't just "move workloads"; you analyze the target environment for efficiency, communicate migration risks to app owners, and use a critical eye to hunt down architectural waste. You are the bridge between the Architect's high-level strategy and the actual cloud console. Key Responsibilities Migration Execution & Risk Analysis: Perform hands-on migrations from Azure/AWS to IBM Cloud Bare Metal. Critically evaluate source workloads to ensure the destination instance is right-sizednot just a 1:1 "lift and shift" of waste. Waste Elimination & Automation: Own the "Cleanup" backlog. Use analytical thinking to identify patterns in orphaned resources and write scripts to automate their removal across the enterprise. Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary technical point of contact for app owners during migrations. You must clearly communicate the "why" behind cost-saving changes and coordinate maintenance windows with precision. Daily Spend Forensics: Monitor AI and Cloud spend daily. Beyond just "alerting," you must perform a root-cause analysis (RCA) on spend anomalies to determine if they are legitimate growth or technical leakage. Commitment & Tagging Governance: Execute RI/Savings Plan purchases and enforce strict tagging compliance. You are responsible for ensuring 100% of cloud resources are analytically traceable to a business unit. Professional & Analytical Requirements Communication Mastery: Ability to translate technical migration steps into clear, non-technical status updates for project managers and business stakeholders. Critical Thinking: A "skeptical" mindset toward cloud defaults. You should instinctively question why a database needs 2TB of premium storage if only 10% is utilized. Required Experience & Technical Skills Category Requirement Cloud Platforms 46 years of hands-on admin in Azure & AWS (Associate/Professional level); hands-on with IBM Cloud / Classic Bare Metal. Networking VMware NSX, PfSense, and Fortinet. You must understand the data-flow logic to avoid breaking apps during a move. Migration Tools Expert use of VMware HCX, Carbonite, or Azure/AWS native migration services. AI & Strategic Tools Ability to use AI/LLMs to refactor simple scripts, analyze complex log files for waste, and generate technical documentation. Compliance & Backup Knowledge of backup/recovery (Veeam, Zerto, or native) to ensure "Eliminate" tasks never impact data durability. India 6594 Employee Regular Full Time Job Description Overview Sr FinOps Cloud Engineer Focus: Execution, Migration, and Infrastructure Governance You are the technical engine of the FinOps team. You don't just "move workloads"; you analyze the target environment for efficiency, communicate migration risks to app owners, and use a critical eye to hunt down architectural waste. You are the bridge between the Architect's high-level strategy and the actual cloud console. Key Responsibilities Migration Execution & Risk Analysis: Perform hands-on migrations from Azure/AWS to IBM Cloud Bare Metal. Critically evaluate source workloads to ensure the destination instance is right-sizednot just a 1:1 "lift and shift" of waste. Waste Elimination & Automation: Own the "Cleanup" backlog. Use analytical thinking to identify patterns in orphaned resources and write scripts to automate their removal across the enterprise. Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary technical point of contact for app owners during migrations. You must clearly communicate the "why" behind cost-saving changes and coordinate maintenance windows with precision. Daily Spend Forensics: Monitor AI and Cloud spend daily. Beyond just "alerting," you must perform a root-cause analysis (RCA) on spend anomalies to determine if they are legitimate growth or technical leakage. Commitment & Tagging Governance: Execute RI/Savings Plan purchases and enforce strict tagging compliance. You are responsible for ensuring 100% of cloud resources are analytically traceable to a business unit. Professional & Analytical Requirements Communication Mastery: Ability to translate technical migration steps into clear, non-technical status updates for project managers and business stakeholders. Critical Thinking: A "skeptical" mindset toward cloud defaults. You should instinctively question why a database needs 2TB of premium storage if only 10% is utilized. Required Experience & Technical Skills Category Requirement Cloud Platforms 46 years of hands-on admin in Azure & AWS (Associate/Professional level); hands-on with IBM Cloud / Classic Bare Metal. Networking VMware NSX, PfSense, and Fortinet. You must understand the data-flow logic to avoid breaking apps during a move. Migration Tools Expert use of VMware HCX, Carbonite, or Azure/AWS native migration services. AI & Stra