Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS + GCP) – Infrastructure Owner & Cost Optimizer
Location : Hyderabad
Type : Full-time
Experience : 3–9 years
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer who treats cloud infrastructure as a product and owns it end-to-end. You will be single-handedly responsible for architecture, security, cost, reliability, and velocity of everything that runs in AWS and GCP.
This is NOT a “ticket-closing” cloud support role. This is an owner-level position where you design, implement, govern, and continuously optimize multi-cloud infrastructure that powers a mission-critical healthcare product processing billions of rupees in claims.
What You’ll Own
- Full ownership of AWS and GCP environments (VPC, Compute, Storage, Networking, Security)
- IAM & least-privilege governance at scale (IAM roles, SCPs, Resource Policies, Permission Boundaries, GCP Organization Policies)
- Landing zone & multi-account strategy (AWS Organizations + Control Tower or custom, GCP Folders & Projects hierarchy)
- Cloud cost optimization & FinOps – target of 25–40 % monthly savings without sacrificing performance (Commit Savings Plans, RIs, Spot, GCP Committed Use Discounts, custom dashboards, alerts)
- Billing alarms, budgeting, tagging enforcement, anomaly detection
- CI / CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild, Google Cloud Build, ArgoCD, Terraform Cloud or similar)
- Infrastructure as Code – Terraform (must), CloudFormation / CDK bonus
- Observability & monitoring (CloudWatch, Prometheus+Grafana, GCP Operations Suite, Datadog / NewRelic welcome)
- Security & compliance hardening (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, GCP Security Command Center, SCPs, encryption-at-rest & in-transit)
- Disaster recovery, backup strategies, and chaos engineering practices
- Developer experience – self-service environments, golden paths, internal platform tools
Must-Have Skills & Experience
3+ years of deep, production-grade experience with AWS and GCP (you’ve managed both in real projects)At least one active certification : AWS Solutions Architect Professional or GCP Professional Cloud Architect (preferred); Associate level accepted if experience is very strongProven track record of reducing cloud bills by 30 %+ in previous roles (show us the numbers!)Expert-level Terraform (modules, remote state, workspaces, providers)Strong CI / CD implementation experience (GitHub Actions is a big plus)Solid scripting (Python / Bash) and Linux systems knowledgeExperience with containers (Docker, ECS, EKS, GKE, Cloud Run)Excellent communication – you can explain complex billing reports to founders and teach junior devs best practicesNice-to-Have
Experience with FinOps tools (Cloudability, CloudHealth, AWS Cost Explorer advanced features, GCP Billing exports + BigQuery)CDK or Pulumi experienceBackground in healthcare or fintech (extra points)Contributions to open-source cloud projectsWhy Join Us
True ownership – you are the cloud platform team (for now)Direct impact on a product that will process >₹10,000 Cr of claims in the next 3 years
Latest tools & unlimited cloud budget for learning / experimentationESOPs that can be life-changingWork with Founders directlyFlat culture, no bureaucracy, ship dailyCompensation
Best-in-industry salary + generous equity + full medical coverage for you & family
If you wake up thinking about Savings Plans vs RIs, get excited when you see a 35 % month-on-month cost drop, and believe cloud should be secure by default and cheap by design we want you.
Apply by sending your résumé + a quick note on the biggest cloud cost save you’ve ever achieved to hr@cardit.in with subject “Senior Cloud Engineer – [Your Name]”
(No recruiters or agencies, please)
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