4 months ago
Gurgaon, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Maintain cloud cost allocation, chargeback models, budgets, alerts, tagging standards, and resource hierarchies.
- Develop cost visibility dashboards and unified multi-cloud reporting using Power BI, native cloud tools, and FinOps platforms.
- Execute cloud rightsizing, scheduling, commitment optimization, anomaly detection, forecasting, and automated remediation.
- Implement policy-as-code, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, and operational compliance workflows.
- Design, develop, and deploy integrations with third-party tools across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Partner with engineering, platform, SRE, finance, procurement, customers, and delivery teams on cost and performance reviews.
- Lead or contribute to technical engagements, workshops, deliverables, pre-sales activities, and customer communications.
- Mentor junior staff, create operating procedures and playbooks, and provide technical leadership across delivery teams.
- Provide occasional travel and after-hours or weekend support for major incidents, client change windows, and similar events.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role.
- At least 3 years of experience designing, securing, and deploying large-scale cloud applications and solutions.
- Experience in cloud engineering, platform operations, DevOps, or SRE, including 1–2 years of FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience.
- Strong AWS and Azure cost-management experience covering tagging, allocation, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, rightsizing, Reservations, Savings Plans, and governance.
- Experience with Power BI, Kusto Query Language, Amazon CloudWatch, Python, PowerShell, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Bicep.
- Architect-level development skills in Python, PowerShell, Java, or similar languages, plus strong Terraform modular infrastructure experience.
- Subject-matter expertise in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and experience with multi-account AWS environments and governance controls.
- Strong networking knowledge across VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing, security groups/NSGs, load balancers, VPNs, and network connectivity.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps platforms including GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitLab CI/CD, and preferably Bitbucket.
- Experience with Cloud Custodian, Trivy, SAST/DAST, pre-commit hooks, DevSecOps, CSPM, secrets management, monitoring, and observability tools.
- Experience with containers, image scanning, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, regulated environments, cloud data governance, audit controls, and compliance standards.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, project management, organizational, communication, customer-facing, and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel, work independently, manage multiple priorities, support customer initiatives outside normal hours, and mentor junior staff.
- Relevant higher-level cloud or technology certifications, training, or demonstrated technical ability are expected or preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive India health insurance with options to extend coverage to dependents.
- Paid time off, company holidays, and additional leave benefits according to policy.
- Flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance.
- Learning and development opportunities, including sponsored certifications and credentials.
- Employee wellness initiatives supporting physical and mental well-being.
- Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations.
- Inclusive, collaborative, people-first culture with opportunities for cross-team development and ownership.
- Occasional travel and after-hours or weekend support are part of the role's practical requirements.
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About AHEAD
AHEAD is an IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and operates digital platforms for large enterprises across cloud infrastructure, automation, data and analytics, security, and DevOps. It generates revenue through consulting, systems integration, and managed services, including cloud management and operations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and owned by Centerbridge Partners.