Cloud Infra Lead

Job Description: Lead - Cloud Engineering (AWS / Azure)

Role Title: Lead - Cloud Engineering

Experience Level: 10+ Years

Domain Focus: Healthcare AI & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Remote

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead - Cloud Engineering with over 10 years of IT experience to lead our cloud strategy, architecture, and infrastructure teams. In this role, you will oversee end-to-end cloud deployment, multi-cloud migration, and scalable architecture designed to support cutting-edge Generative AI applications in the healthcare technology domain.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in both AWS and Azure, strong hands-on capability in cloud infrastructure, and proven leadership experience driving security, compliance, and team growth.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Migration

• Lead the architecture, design, and execution of cloud migrations, deployments, and modernizations across AWS and Azure environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to ensure scalable, automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Build high-availability, low-latency architectures optimized for data-intensive Generative AI and Machine Learning workloads.

Security & Healthcare Compliance

• Enforce healthcare security standards including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and data governance best practices across all cloud assets.
• Implement Zero-Trust security, Identity Access Management (IAM), data encryption key management, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of DevOps, Cloud, and SRE Engineers.
• Drive Agile workflows, sprint planning, incident response frameworks, and SLA compliance.
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Software Product teams to align infrastructure with business roadmaps.

Operations & FinOps

• Establish cloud cost optimization strategies (FinOps) to manage computing costs associated with AI models and large-scale data processing.
• Manage monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch) to ensure 99.99% uptime.

Key Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of overall IT experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud leadership or lead architect role.
• Cloud Platforms: Advanced hands-on expertise with both AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, EKS, Bedrock, SageMaker) and Azure (e.g., AKS, Azure OpenAI, Blob, Virtual Machines).
• DevOps & IaC: Strong background in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
• Domain Knowledge: Prior experience building or managing cloud environments within Healthcare, Life Sciences, or HealthTech is strongly preferred.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience supporting cloud infrastructure for machine learning pipelines, LLM deployments, or GPU compute management.
• Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

Location : Mumbai

Big Picture (The Opportunity) :

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your Career? & If you are able to maintain a positive attitude even when everything goes wrong, if you are detail oriented and self motivated with a passion to learn and improve your skills and knowledge, we have a perfect job for you !

What do we want from you ? (Our Expectations) :

• Zero to 2 years experience in Linux Operating System.
• Flexible working hours - able to support occasional nights, weekends, and call-ins, able to quickly adapt to a constantly changing faced paced environment. Open to travel to sites.
• An ideal person who is excited and motivated about running and supporting a production - grade critical infrastructure and looks for opportunities to improve processes with automation.

What are you required to do ? (Your Responsibilities) :

• Proactively maintain and develop all linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24*7*365 uptime service.
• Engineering of systems administration-related various solutions for our various SAAS products and projects as well as operational needs.
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
• Providing technical support to customers for Applications, Operating systems, and networking.
• Will also be the first point of contact for our clients, where installations are placed on a permanent basis, for basic troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments.

Skills & Qualification Required (Add Value) :

• Graduate - Preferred to have Bachelor‘s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• He / She should be familiar with the installation and configuration of Linux operating systems and setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux systems also familiar with Internet concepts including SMTP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP and related protocols.
• You should possess excellent communication skills .
• Knowledge of Email concepts, Helpdesk Concept , VoIP Concept , Cloud computing will be an added advantage.

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