Position: Senior DevOps / Cloud Consultant
Experience: 10+ Years
Location: [Location]
Work Mode: [Remote/Hybrid/Onsite]
Employment Type: Full-Time
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior DevOps / Cloud Consultant with 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Solution Design, and Production Engineering.
The ideal candidate should have deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, and Azure, very strong networking fundamentals, and the ability to understand client requirements and design multiple technical approaches/solutions based on business, technical, security, scalability, availability, and cost considerations.
This role requires a strong consulting and architecture mindset combined with hands-on experience in CI/CD, Observability, Disaster Recovery, cloud infrastructure, automation, and production environments.
Key Responsibilities
1. Multi-Cloud Expertise
Demonstrate detailed and hands-on knowledge of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Design and implement scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
Evaluate different cloud approaches based on client requirements and recommend the most suitable architecture.
Work on cloud migration, modernization, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud initiatives.
Understand and compare equivalent services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Provide technical guidance on cloud architecture, infrastructure, security, scalability, and reliability.
2. Networking – Strong Expertise Required
Possess strong and in-depth knowledge of networking concepts and their implementation in cloud environments.
Design and troubleshoot cloud networking architectures including:
VPC / VNet
Subnets
Routing and Route Tables
NAT / Internet Gateways
Load Balancers
DNS
Firewalls
VPN
Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Cloud Interconnect
Private Endpoints / Private Connectivity
Security Groups / Network ACLs
Troubleshoot complex network connectivity, latency, routing, and security-related issues.
Design secure network architectures for production and enterprise environments.
3. DevOps Consulting & Solution Design
Act as a DevOps / Cloud Consultant and work directly with clients and technical stakeholders to understand their requirements.
Analyse business and technical requirements and propose multiple solution approaches.
Evaluate solutions based on scalability, performance, availability, security, maintainability, operational complexity, and cost.
Prepare high-level and low-level solution designs and technical recommendations.
Identify technical risks, dependencies, and challenges before implementation.
Guide engineering teams in implementing recommended solutions.
Conduct architecture and technical reviews and establish DevOps best practices.
Provide consulting support for complex DevOps and cloud transformation initiatives.
4. CI/CD – End-to-End Production Experience
Design, implement, and manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for enterprise and production environments.
Develop automated pipelines covering source control, build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment, and release.
Work with tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent.
Implement deployment strategies such as Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling, and automated rollback.
Integrate DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines.
Troubleshoot pipeline and deployment failures in production environments.
Establish CI/CD standards, governance, and best practices.
5. Observability & Monitoring
Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions for production environments.
Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident-management practices.
Work with tools such as:
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK / EFK
OpenSearch
CloudWatch
Azure Monitor
Google Cloud Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools
Define meaningful SLIs, SLOs, and operational metrics.
Analyse production incidents and identify root causes.
Improve system reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
6. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
Design and implement end-to-end Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for production environments.
Define appropriate RPO and RTO based on business requirements.
Design backup, replication, failover, and recovery strategies across cloud environments.
Plan and execute DR drills and validate recovery procedures.
Identify single points of failure and implement high-availability solutions.
Troubleshoot and resolve production availability and recovery challenges.
7. Production Engineering & Reliability
Provide technical support for mission-critical production environments.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, and availability issues.
Lead root-cause analysis for critical production incidents.
Drive automation to reduce manual operational activities.
Improve system reliability, scalability, availability, and performance.
Participate in incident management and ensure effective preventive and corrective actions.
Required Technical Skills
Cloud
AWS – Strong hands-on experience
Azure – Strong hands-on experience
GCP – Strong hands-on experience
Multi-cloud / hybrid-cloud architecture
Networking
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, routing, load balancing, VPN, firewalls, proxies, subnets, NAT, and network security
Strong experience with cloud networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP
DevOps
Strong understanding of DevOps methodologies and practices
CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
Infrastructure automation
Production deployment and release management
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Strong experience with Terraform
Experience with Ansible or equivalent automation tools
Strong scripting knowledge using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
Containers & Orchestration
Strong understanding of Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with EKS, AKS, and/or GKE is preferred
Observability
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK / OpenSearch
Cloud-native monitoring and logging platforms
Security
IAM / RBAC
Secrets management
Encryption
TLS/SSL
Network security
DevSecOps practices
Required Experience
10+ years of overall experience in DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, SRE, or related engineering roles.
Strong hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Strong networking and cloud infrastructure expertise.
Proven experience working as a DevOps / Cloud Consultant.
Experience designing multiple technical solutions based on client requirements.
Strong experience with end-to-end CI/CD, Observability, and Disaster Recovery.
Experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise production environments.
Strong stakeholder and client-facing communication skills.
Key Competencies
Strong consulting and solution-design mindset
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Ability to present and compare multiple technical approaches
Strong communication and client-management skills
Ability to lead technical discussions and architecture reviews
Strong production troubleshooting and incident-management skills
Ability to work independently and take end-to-end ownership
Preferred Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect / Azure DevOps Engineer
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Terraform Associate
Ideal Candidate Profile
We are looking for a 10+ years experienced Senior DevOps / Cloud Consultant who is equally comfortable in client discussions, solution architecture, and hands-on technical implementation.