Lead - Cloud Engineering (AWS / Azure)

Job Description: Lead - Cloud Engineering (AWS / Azure)

Role Title: Lead - Cloud Engineering

Experience Level: 10+ Years

Domain Focus: Healthcare AI & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Remote

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead - Cloud Engineering with over 10 years of IT experience to lead our cloud strategy, architecture, and infrastructure teams. In this role, you will oversee end-to-end cloud deployment, multi-cloud migration, and scalable architecture designed to support cutting-edge Generative AI applications in the healthcare technology domain.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in both AWS and Azure, strong hands-on capability in cloud infrastructure, and proven leadership experience driving security, compliance, and team growth.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Migration

• Lead the architecture, design, and execution of cloud migrations, deployments, and modernizations across AWS and Azure environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to ensure scalable, automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Build high-availability, low-latency architectures optimized for data-intensive Generative AI and Machine Learning workloads.

Security & Healthcare Compliance

• Enforce healthcare security standards including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and data governance best practices across all cloud assets.
• Implement Zero-Trust security, Identity Access Management (IAM), data encryption key management, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of DevOps, Cloud, and SRE Engineers.
• Drive Agile workflows, sprint planning, incident response frameworks, and SLA compliance.
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Software Product teams to align infrastructure with business roadmaps.

Operations & FinOps

• Establish cloud cost optimization strategies (FinOps) to manage computing costs associated with AI models and large-scale data processing.
• Manage monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch) to ensure 99.99% uptime.

Key Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of overall IT experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud leadership or lead architect role.
• Cloud Platforms: Advanced hands-on expertise with both AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, EKS, Bedrock, SageMaker) and Azure (e.g., AKS, Azure OpenAI, Blob, Virtual Machines).
• DevOps & IaC: Strong background in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
• Domain Knowledge: Prior experience building or managing cloud environments within Healthcare, Life Sciences, or HealthTech is strongly preferred.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience supporting cloud infrastructure for machine learning pipelines, LLM deployments, or GPU compute management.
• Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

Pay: ₹296,507.38 - ₹1,580,689.23 per year

Work Location: Remote