Principal Cloud Engineer
ACI Worldwide3 months ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define cloud architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards across enterprise platforms.
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code, automation, platform engineering, and cloud modernization practices.
- Architect and implement AWS, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS-based solutions.
- Build and optimize automated deployment workflows, infrastructure delivery pipelines, and cloud operational frameworks.
- Lead cloud governance, security, compliance automation, operational resilience, and automated audit evidence initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex cloud infrastructure challenges.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams on technology investments and business objectives.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence, innovation, automation, and cloud-first strategies.
- Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities and AI-powered engineering tools into cloud platforms and operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale cloud infrastructure and leading cloud transformation initiatives.
- Expert-level experience with AWS Cloud Services, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong knowledge of Git-based workflows, platform automation, containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud platform operations.
- Experience with cloud networking, security, compliance, reliability engineering, governance, configuration management, and secure deployment frameworks.
- Experience with scalability, performance optimization, operational resilience, and enterprise cloud automation.
- Experience evaluating or integrating AI/ML, generative AI, large language models, AI agents, and AI-driven automation into engineering operations.
- Ability to influence technical direction, make architectural decisions, manage stakeholders, and mentor engineering teams.
- Preferred experience in Payments, Financial Services, FinTech, regulated industries, enterprise cloud transformation, FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and continuous compliance.
- Advanced AWS, Kubernetes, or cloud platform certifications are preferred; Windows administration and industry thought leadership are pluses.
Benefits
- Opportunities for growth and career development.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Innovative and collaborative work environment.
- The role is based in Pune.
About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide builds payment processing and fraud prevention software for banks, merchants, and billers, delivered as on-premise and cloud services. Its portfolio spans real-time payments, card and merchant acquiring, bill payment, and risk management. Founded in 1975 and publicly traded on NASDAQ (ACIW), the company is headquartered in Elkhorn, Nebraska and serves financial institutions and retailers globally.