Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced and skilled Cloud Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure management, administration, migration, and troubleshooting. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and AWS, along with expertise in migrating workloads across different infrastructure platforms, including Azure, VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS to Azure.
The candidate should have a good understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems, cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, and basic networking concepts.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, administer, monitor, and maintain cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and AWS environments.
- Perform cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, and ongoing administration.
- Plan and execute infrastructure migration projects across multiple platforms, including:
- Azure to Azure (inter-region, inter-subscription, or tenant migrations, as applicable).
- VMware to Azure.
- Hyper-V to Azure.
- AWS to Azure.
- Assess existing infrastructure, identify migration dependencies, and prepare migration plans and execution strategies.
- Perform virtual machine migration, workload cutover, validation, and post-migration troubleshooting.
- Monitor cloud infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and resource utilization.
- Manage virtual machines, storage, networking, backup, disaster recovery, and access controls.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, operating system, connectivity, and cloud-related issues.
- Support business continuity, backup, and disaster recovery activities.
- Identify opportunities for infrastructure optimization, cost management, and operational improvement.
Required Technical Skills
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, cloud administration, or IT infrastructure management.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud platforms.
- Practical experience in cloud infrastructure administration, virtual machine management, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with infrastructure and workload migrations across Azure, VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS environments.
- Knowledge of Azure services such as Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Storage Accounts, Network Security Groups, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery.
- Good knowledge of Windows Server and Linux operating systems, including installation, configuration, patching, and troubleshooting.
- Understanding of virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals, including IP addressing, DNS, routing, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting.
- Understanding of backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity concepts.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and migration-related issues independently.
Preferred Experience
- Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), or AWS certifications.
- Experience with Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, and other cloud migration tools.
- Exposure to cloud monitoring, security, governance, and cost optimization.
- Experience working in enterprise infrastructure or hybrid-cloud environments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, system administration, or infrastructure migration.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.