Associate Principal Cloud Operations Engineer

Overview

Lead cloud operations and identity engineering across Azure, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments. Design secure, scalable platforms while improving automation, reliability, governance, and team capability.

What you'll do

• Design and maintain Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory infrastructure.
• Administer Azure virtual machines, storage, networking, backup, Key Vault, and monitoring.
• Manage IAM capabilities including SSO, MFA, Conditional Access, RBAC, and PIM.
• Automate provisioning and identity lifecycle management with PowerShell, Terraform, and related tools.
• Lead cloud migrations, modernization, upgrades, and hybrid identity implementations.
• Oversee monitoring, incident management, root-cause analysis, reliability, and cost-efficiency initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with security, application, infrastructure, and networking teams.

What you'll need

• 8–12 years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles.
• 8+ years of experience with Active Directory, Azure AD/Entra ID, and IAM technologies.
• Strong expertise in Azure or AWS.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Windows Server, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Azure AD Connect, ADFS, and hybrid identity.
• Hands-on IaC and scripting experience with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Knowledge of cloud security, networking, DevOps tools, authentication protocols, and hybrid cloud architecture.

Nice to have

• Cloud Architect or DevOps certifications.
• Experience with AVD, serverless, containers, and microservices.
• Knowledge of FinOps, SRE, cost optimization, and enterprise cloud governance.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.