Cloud Engineer-II

Here's a JD for a Cloud Engineer role targeting candidates transitioning from a data engineering background:

Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Experience: 2-5 Years

Location: [City / Hybrid / Remote - specify]

Function: Cloud Infrastructure / Data Engineering

About the Role

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer with a strong data engineering foundation to help design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for our data platforms. This role is ideal for someone who has worked hands-on with data pipelines and wants to deepen their expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and platform reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting data pipelines and analytics workloads
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize data storage, compute, and networking on the cloud
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and data workflows
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Monitor cloud environments for performance, cost optimization, and security compliance
• Support migration of on-prem or legacy data systems to cloud-native architectures
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and pipeline issues across cloud environments
• Work closely with data engineers, DevOps, and architects to ensure reliable, scalable systems

Required Skills & Experience

• 2-5 years of overall experience, with a background in data engineering (building pipelines, working with data platforms/tools like Spark, Databricks, Airflow, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Basic understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Scripting skills in Python or Bash for automation