Cloud Platform Operations Engineer

This is us

At Avenga, we believe that human creativity empowers technology that matters. Operating globally, our 6000+ specialists provide a full spectrum of services, including business and tech advisory, enterprise solutions, CX, UX and Ul design, managed services, product development, and software development.

This is you

Cloud Platform & Architecture

• Cloud platform expertise (OCI / AWS / Azure)

• Secure provisioning & tenancy hygiene

• Backup, DR, geo‑redundancy design

• PaaS service management

• Cloud governance & compliance frameworks

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Terraform (IaC, modules, drift control)

• CLI / PowerShell automation

• CI/CD for IaC with policy/test gates

• Environment promotion workflows

Security, Identity & Secrets

• IAM architecture (SSO, federation, workload identities)

• Conditional Access & JIT/PAM

• Least‑privilege access patterns

• KMS/HSM architecture

• Secret lifecycle management (rotation, envelope encryption, scanning)

• CSPM/CWPP tooling & security posture management

Networking & Connectivity

• VNet/VPC design & segmentation

• Private links/endpoints & service endpoints

• Routing, peering, DNS architecture

• Global load balancing

• Egress control & traffic governance

Policy‑as‑Code & Guardrails

• Azure Policy / Defender for Cloud

• AWS SCPs / Config

• OCI Policies / Cloud Guard

• Enforcement of tagging, naming, quota & region standards

Containers & Kubernetes

• AKS / EKS / OKE operations

• Cluster lifecycle & autoscaling

• Admission controllers

• Image signing & SBOM

• Registry governance

• Runtime hardening

FinOps & Cost Governance

• Cost optimisation & anomaly detection

• Commitment planning (RI / Savings Plans)

• Showback/chargeback models

• Cost allocation tagging & policies

Observability & Operations

• Monitoring & observability tooling

• ITSM automation

• SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction

• Runbook creation & incident command

• Post‑incident review facilitation

Migration & Platform Engineering

• Cloud migration planning & execution

• Data protection & residency compliance

• Backup immutability & retention alignment

• Standardisation into reusable blueprints

Leadership & Enablement

• Mentoring L2 analysts

• Cloud build standards coaching

• Troubleshooting guidance

Your role

• Lead the provisioning, management, and optimisation of cloud infrastructure and services (OCI, AWS, Azure, Native Services, IaaS, PaaS).

• Oversee the deployment and configuration of public cloud resources, ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools for cloud resource management.

• Implement Infrastructure-As-Code approach and develop Terraform scripts for all cloud Infrastructure deployments.

• Drive integration with DevOps workflows, supporting rapid deployment and continuous delivery.

• Mentor and guide L2 Support Analysts, promoting knowledge sharing and skill development. Organize an On-Call rota for this area.

• Lead cloud migration projects, ensuring minimal disruption and robust risk management.

• Participate in governance, reporting, and service review meetings.

• Establish and maintain cloud landing zones with policy‑as‑code guardrails (e.g., Azure Policy/Defender for Cloud, AWS Organizations/Control Tower SCPs, OCI Policies), including tagging, naming, quota, and region use standards.

• Own identity and access standards (enforce least privilege, SSO, role mapping, privileged access break‑glass, workload identities) and key/secrets management (KMS/HSM, rotation SLAs, secret scanning).

• Define and operate network reference architectures (hub‑and‑spoke, private endpoints, service endpoints, egress controls, DNS, global load balancing, cross‑cloud connectivity) with security baselines.

• Lead container/Kubernetes platform operations (AKS/EKS/OKE): cluster lifecycle, node pools, autoscaling, admission control, image provenance, and supply chain security.

• Own FinOps operations (allocation/chargeback, budgets/alerts, rightsizing, RIs/Savings Plans/Flexible commitments, lifecycle policies for idle/orphaned resources).

• Maintain golden images/base templates and patch pipelines for compute/container runtimes; ensure vulnerability management and CIS/NIST/CIS‑benchmark alignment.

What awaits you at Avenga?

• Private medical care

• Cafeteria benefits program

• Private isurance
  
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