Senior Cloud Engineer, SRE

JOB DESCRIPTION:

1. JOB IDENTIFICATION

APTEAN JOB TABLE:

APTEAN JOB LEVEL: C

APTEAN JOB TITLE: Senior Cloud Engineer, SRE

REPORTS TO
Full line: Beschi Carol Rosario
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2. GENERAL JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability, security, and scalability. This role involves leading cloud automation efforts, optimizing cloud resources, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support business objectives. The Senior Cloud Engineer also provides technical guidance, drives best practices, and plays a key role in troubleshooting and resolving complex cloud-related issues.

The role will also require support of on-premises systems on demand basis, which will include installation, patching, configuration and administration of VMware, Windows & Linux operating system issues. The senior engineer will also be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base operating system, but also for all support libraries, components and application dependencies.

3. SCOPE

Knowledge: Experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.

Complexity: Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.

Supervision: Should work on planned tasks together with other admin team members. Should be self-reliant while handling issues of high complexity and participating in project activities as a Project Team member.

Internal and external stakeholder management is expected for project related activities

The role primarily focuses on cloud infrastructure management, automation and assisting customers on-premises on demand basis.

Works within defined policies and guidelines but may escalate critical issues to senior engineers or architects.

Require on-call support or off-hours work for urgent issues and planned maintenance.

4. ORGANIZATION (Indicate the job positions reporting to this role)

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Job (# of positions): 2

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Job (# of positions): 2

5. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Cloud Architecture & Design: Develop and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud solutions for Azure

Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate cloud provisioning, deployments, and configurations using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Performance & Cost Optimization: Continuously monitor cloud environments to optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with industry security standards, governance policies, and compliance frameworks.

Incident Management & Troubleshooting: Lead the resolution of complex cloud and on-premises infrastructure issues and ensure minimal downtime.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to align cloud strategies with business goals.

Mentorship & Technical Leadership: Guide to junior engineers, share best practices, and contribute to knowledge sharing across teams.

Documentation & Process Improvement: Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and enhance cloud operational processes.

DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.