Associate Principal Engineer (Cloud Infra)

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud / DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Azure PaaS services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure DevOps. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting highly available and scalable cloud applications and infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Azure networking, security, monitoring, and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure PaaS services including App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Grid, and related services.
• Design, configure, and administer Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, secrets, config maps, and autoscaling.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain build and release pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep templates.
• Build and manage Docker containers and container registries using Azure Container Registry (ACR).
• Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments where required.
• Configure Azure networking components such as VNets, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, load balancers, Application Gateway, and Azure DNS.
• Implement Azure security best practices including Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault, secrets management, and network security.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Container Insights.
• Automate infrastructure and operational activities using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash, or Python.
• Troubleshoot application, container, Kubernetes, pipeline, networking, and Azure infrastructure issues.
• Work closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.
• Participate in production deployments, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.

Required Skills

Azure

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Azure PaaS services such as:
• Azure App Service
• Azure Functions
• Azure Storage
• Azure SQL
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Event Grid
• Azure API Management
• Good understanding of Azure networking, IAM/RBAC, security, and governance.

AKS / Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience with AKS.
• Kubernetes architecture and administration.
• Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Namespaces.
• Helm and Kubernetes manifests.
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and cluster autoscaling.
• Container troubleshooting and performance

Cloud Expertise(Azure):

• Strong understanding of cloud services and resources like AI services, webapp, database, including monitoring tools like Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Arm template / Bicep/Terraform.

• Deep understanding of Networking concepts(DNS, DHCP , Hub and Spoke).

• Understanding on policies and security aspects of cloud.

Kubernetes & Helm:

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as pods, services, ingress, config maps, and secrets.

• Understand of Kubernetes templates and its deployment.

• Proficiency with Helm/ Kustomize or equivalent for Kubernetes package management and deployment automation.

• Implement Kubernetes best practices, including security, networking, and scaling.

• Concepts of Docker and Containers

CI/CD & Programming:

• Hands-on experience with YAML-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).

• Familiarity with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Bash.

• Proven skill in python programming and concepts.

Monitoring and Observability:

Expertise in creating and managing Grafana dashboards for visualizing metrics and logs.

• Knowledge of Log Analytics & Azure Application Insights for performance monitoring and tracing.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the infrastructure build, optimization, automation, and production deployment of a Multi-Agent AI Chatbot Platform hosted on AWS. The development environment is already in place, and the successful candidate will drive the solution through testing, integrations, and production go-live.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, validate, and optimize existing Terraform code and AWS infrastructure.
• Establish and manage integrations with enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, Workday, and other third-party systems.
• Design, build, and support secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments.
• Implement and automate CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Lead infrastructure testing, performance tuning, and production readiness activities.
• Drive deployment and operationalization of the platform in the Production environment.
• Implement cloud governance, security, monitoring, and FinOps best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud infrastructure issues.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of IT experience with strong expertise in AWS Cloud Engineering.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing AWS production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation and DevOps practices.
• Expertise in AWS services including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and networking.
• Experience in performance optimization, reliability, and cloud cost management (FinOps).
• Strong scripting and automation skills.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications through APIs and secure connectivity patterns.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting AI/GenAI, chatbot, or multi-agent platforms.
• AWS Certifications (Associate/Professional).
• Banking or Financial Services domain experience.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – BANG | 10+ Years

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 10+ Years

Job Description:

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP environments.
• Strong experience in cloud architecture, compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Manage VMs, VPC/VNet, load balancers, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and IAM.
• Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux servers, VMware, virtualization, and infrastructure operations.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, and capacity using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or CloudWatch/Azure Monitor.
• Handle incident management, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability requirements.
• Work with cross-functional teams to support cloud migration, infrastructure upgrades, and production environments.
• Ensure infrastructure follows security, compliance, and operational best practices.

Must-Have Skills:

Cloud Infrastructure | AWS/Azure/GCP | Networking | Linux/Windows | VMware | Terraform | Ansible | DNS/DHCP | IAM | Monitoring | Backup & DR

WowPe is a leading fintech company revolutionizing the way businesses handle financial transactions. Our suite of innovative products includes a secure Payment Gateway for seamless online transactions, robust Payouts solutions to streamline bulk payments, and a versatile Point of Sale (POS) system for efficient in-store transactions. At WowPe, we’re dedicated to providing user-friendly, scalable, and reliable solutions that empower businesses to grow and succeed in today’s fast-paced digital economy.

We are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure & Cloud Network Engineer to design, build, and manage secure, scalable hybrid cloud environments at WowPe. This role will focus on cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, infrastructure automation, security, reliability, and performance across on-prem and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure). You will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, security, and performance of our fintech platforms.

A Day in the Life

• Design and review cloud network architectures (VPC/VNet, routing, segmentation)
• Troubleshoot latency, connectivity, VPN, and performance issues
• Work with DevOps and application teams to support deployments and scalability
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and security guardrails
• Monitor network health, traffic flow, and system performance
• Ensure security, compliance, and disaster recovery readiness
• Support hybrid connectivity between on-prem data centers and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Networking & Hybrid Architecture

• Design and implement VPC/VNet architectures, subnetting, routing tables, NAT, gateways, and secure segmentation
• Build and manage hybrid connectivity between on-prem data centers and cloud using Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect
• Configure and manage Layer 4 & Layer 7 load balancers for high availability and traffic distribution
• Architect DNS, CDN, and edge networking strategies for low-latency global access

Security & Zero-Trust

• Implement Zero-Trust networking using security groups, NACLs, identity-aware proxies, mTLS
• Design secure access controls and network isolation
• Work closely with security teams to ensure PCI, ISO, SOC compliance readiness

Automation, Platform & Reliability

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM/CloudFormation)
• Build self-healing, auto-scaling architectures with health checks and fault tolerance
• Support and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS) including networking and service communication
• Integrate infra with CI/CD pipelines for safe and frequent deployments

Operations & Observability

• Perform advanced troubleshooting for latency, packet loss, MTU, routing loops
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch)
• Design and maintain disaster recovery architectures, multi-region networking, and replication strategies
• Ensure high availability, performance optimization, and cost efficiency

Basic Qualifications & Skills

• 4+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure & Cloud Networking
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Deep understanding of VPC/VNet, routing, NAT, gateways, load balancers, DNS
• Experience with Hybrid connectivity (VPN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect)
• Solid knowledge of network security, firewalls, access control, segmentation
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience in monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident handling
• Strong understanding of high availability, DR, and performance optimization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, BFSI, or high-compliance environments
• Exposure to Zero-Trust architecture and security best practices
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), service mesh, microservices networking
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of CDN, edge networking, and global traffic management
• Experience with compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC2)
• Ability to design large-scale, resilient, production-grade architectures

Azure DevOps Engineer

Experience

5-10 years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Priority 1 – Must Have (Hands-On)

Azure Cloud Platform

·        Strong hands-on experience supporting Azure workloads in production environments.

·        Experience designing, building and supporting Azure infrastructure using Terraform.

·        Good understanding of Azure networking and connectivity patterns.

·        Experience supporting:

Ø AKS

Ø Application Gateway

Ø Azure Traffic Manager

Ø Key Vault

Ø Azure Monitor / Log Analytics

Ø Managed Identities

Ø Service Principals

Ø Private Endpoints

Ø VNets, NSGs and Route Tables

Kubernetes / AKS

• Strong practical experience operating and supporting AKS.
• Ability to troubleshoot:

Ø Pod failures

Ø Ingress issues

Ø DNS issues

Ø SSL/TLS certificate issues

Ø Network routing issues

Ø Performance and availability incidents

• Experience with:

Ø Helm

Ø Ingress Controllers

Ø Cluster upgrades

Ø Scaling

Ø Monitoring

Terraform

·        Strong hands-on experience writing and maintaining Terraform.

·        Experience creating reusable modules.

·        Experience managing:

·        State files

·        Remote backends

·        Environment promotion

·        Infrastructure lifecycle

Linux & Scripting

·        Strong Linux administration fundamentals.

·        Practical experience troubleshooting production issues.

·        Bash scripting mandatory.

·        Python desirable.

Application Support / Troubleshooting

Must be comfortable supporting business applications end-to-end.

 Priority 2 – Highly Desirable

GitHub & DevOps Platform

Hands-on experience with:

·        GitHub Enterprise

·        GitHub Actions

·        Shared workflows

·        Reusable pipelines

·        Repository onboarding

·        Branch protections

·        GitHub security features

Experience supporting:

·        Runner issues

·        Disk space issues

·        Network connectivity issues

·        Dependency failures

·        Self-hosted runners lifecycle management

API Management

Pipeline failures

GitOps

Experience with:

·        ArgoCD

·        GitOps deployment models

·        Kubernetes deployment automation

Monitoring & Observability

Experience working with:

·        Prometheus

·        Grafana

·        Azure Monitor

·        Log Analytics

·        Application Insights

We are looking for a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to lead the infrastructure build, optimization, automation, and production deployment of a Multi-Agent AI Chatbot Platform hosted on AWS. The development environment is already in place, and the successful candidate will drive the solution through testing, integrations, and production go-live.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, validate, and optimize existing Terraform code and AWS infrastructure.
• Establish and manage integrations with enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, Workday, and other third-party systems.
• Design, build, and support secure, scalable, and highly available AWS environments.
• Implement and automate CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Lead infrastructure testing, performance tuning, and production readiness activities.
• Drive deployment and operationalization of the platform in the Production environment.
• Implement cloud governance, security, monitoring, and FinOps best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud infrastructure issues.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of IT experience with strong expertise in AWS Cloud Engineering.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing AWS production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation and DevOps practices.
• Expertise in AWS services including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and networking.
• Experience in performance optimization, reliability, and cloud cost management (FinOps).
• Strong scripting and automation skills.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications through APIs and secure connectivity patterns.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity (Entra ID), and governance services.

2+ years of experience with DevOps tooling and practices, including CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM), and version control (Git).

2+ years' experience in infrastructure design, platform engineering, or architecture.

Strong proficiency with automation and scripting — PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python, or Bash.

Solid understanding of containerisation (Docker) and familiarity with orchestration platforms (Azure Kubernetes Service).

Deep understanding of cloud architecture, deployment patterns, and management best practices, including the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Experience defining standards, governance frameworks, and reference architectures for cloud platform consumption.

Strong knowledge of networking concepts, storage configurations, virtualisation technologies, and disaster recovery/backup design for hybrid environments.

Experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts) or equivalent platforms.

Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM), including Entra ID, RBAC, PIM.

Strong understanding of security, compliance requirements, and IT governance frameworks (ITIL, COBIT, or similar).

Preferred

Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) – Azure

About Searce:

Searce is an AI-native, engineering-led modern technology consultancy that empowers

clients to futurify their businesses by delivering real, intelligent business outcomes. As a

trusted partner for over 3,000 clients globally, Searce specializes in cloud modernization,

data engineering, applied AI, and robust cloud platform security. Driven by a "HAPPIER"

cultural mindset and our proprietary evlos problem-solving framework, we eliminate

bureaucratic fluff to build working prototypes fast and scale enterprise production

environments intelligently. We don't just fix systems; we leverage multi-cloud technologies

to transform client operations into distinct competitive advantages.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a high-caliber Senior or Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) to

architect, secure, and stabilize next-generation hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Operating at the intersection of infrastructure design, security compliance, and production

operations, you will serve as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) across GCP, Azure,

and AWS.

Whether optimizing a microservice mesh on GKE, tuning autoscaling on AKS, or driving a

massive disaster recovery drill across AWS regions, your focus will be absolute reliability. For

the Lead path, you will couple this deep engineering toolkit with stakeholder management

and mentorship to drive an elite operational culture.

Experience & Level Expectation:

Years of Experience: 3 to 10 years of intensive, hands-on production operations

experience in a dedicated DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, or SRE role.

Associate level (3-5 Years): Expected to show flawless execution of IaC, advanced

triaging of infrastructure failures, and ownership of the CI/CD and deployment

lifecycles.

Intermediate level (5-10 Years): Expected to take architectural ownership, serve as

primary Incident Commander for complex outages, design cross-cloud governance

frameworks, and act as a reliable bridge between technical teams and client

leadership.

Key Responsibilities & Role Expectations:

Multi-Cloud Platforms & Orchestration: Design, configure, and maintain

production-grade Kubernetes clusters across major platforms (AKS).

Manage advanced network routing, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and multi-tenant

isolation.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & GitOps: Build declarative, enterprise-grade, reusable

infrastructure components using Terraform or Crossplane. Standardize automated

environment provisioning to eliminate configuration drift across multi-branch

environments.

Incident Management & Reliability (SRE): Own and optimize the production on-call

rotation. Lead rapid mitigation strategies for Sev-1/Sev-2 system outages, reducing

Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) through centralized log and metric correlation.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Facilitate rigorous, blameless post-incident reviews to

identify core architectural vulnerabilities and establish long-term fixes preventing

recurrence.

Lifecycle, Patching & Upgrades: Plan and execute zero-downtime cluster upgrades,

operating system patching strategies (Linux/Windows), database lifecycle updates,

and multi-region Disaster Recovery (DR) failover drills.

Core Core Operations & Legacy Integration: Manage enterprise-level hybrid

networking architecture (VPCs, Firewalls, Load Balancers, DNS routing, and DHCP

configurations) while effectively connecting cloud native services to legacy

infrastructures like Active Directory.

Security & Governance: Embed Zero Trust policies, secure secrets management

(Secrets Manager/Key Vault), and continuous vulnerability patching into the

automated SDLC pipeline.

Required Technical Skills:

- Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory, Azure Update Management.

- Containers & Orchestration

• Production-level management of GKE, AKS, and EKS.
• Advanced mastery of Docker, Helm, Kubernetes StatefulSets, Pod Disruption

AWS / Kubernetes / OpenShift / Linux – Job Description

Role: Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Experience: 4–8 Years

Location: Bangalore

Mandatory Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux

Job Summary

Looking for a Cloud/DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Linux. The candidate will be responsible for managing cloud infrastructure, container platforms, deployments, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Deploy and manage applications using Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Perform Linux administration, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health and resolve production issues.
• Work on containerized applications and deployments.
• Support scaling, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance of Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Troubleshoot cloud, container, and Linux-related issues.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams for deployments and releases.
• Follow security, availability, and operational best practices.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in AWS
• Good experience with Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience in OpenShift
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Experience in cloud/container environment support
• Good production troubleshooting and incident management skills