Senior Cloud Cost Optimization Engineer

Senior CloudOps Engineer – Microsoft Azure

Technology: Microsoft Azure | Cloud Operations | Governance | FinOps

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Remote – Trivandrum

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire (C2H)

Work Mode: Remote

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior CloudOps Engineer with strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience to manage cloud operations, platform reliability, security governance, and cost optimization. The role focuses on production operations, governance enforcement, security, and ensuring reliable and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Azure platform reliability, availability, and operational readiness.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and remediation activities.
• Implement Azure governance using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, naming conventions, and tagging standards.
• Drive FinOps initiatives, including resource rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, and cost optimization.
• Manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), focusing on scaling, resource utilization, and operational boundaries.
• Maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and change management processes.
• Manage Azure subscriptions, management groups, networking, identity, and access controls.
• Identify and remediate governance gaps, excessive permissions, and configuration drift.

Must-Have Skills

• 6+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience with production operations ownership.
• Strong expertise in Azure infrastructure, networking, subscriptions, and management groups.
• Experience with Azure governance, Azure Policy, RBAC, and identity/access management.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep).
• Experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and operational remediation.
• Understanding of Azure cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Ability to enforce security, governance, and operational standards.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience establishing CloudOps processes and governance frameworks.
• Exposure to Azure Cost Management, reservations, and savings plans.
• Experience with ITIL-based IT service management.

Mandatory Certifications

Candidates must have at least 2–3 relevant certifications from the following list:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-140)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
• Preferred: ITIL 4 Foundation

Important Note

This is a Cloud Operations-focused role, not a DevOps enablement or application development position. Candidates must demonstrate strong operational ownership, governance enforcement, security awareness, and cost accountability.

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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 CloudOps Engineer

Technology: Microsoft Azure | Cloud Operations | Governance | FinOps

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Remote-Trivandrum

Contract-to-Hire (C2H)

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior CloudOps Engineer with strong hands-on Azure experience to

drive cloud operations, platform reliability, security governance, and cost optimization. The

role focuses on operational ownership, enforcing governance standards, managing

production environments, and ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Azure platform reliability, availability, and operational readiness.

• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and remediation.

• Implement Azure governance using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, naming conventions, and

tagging standards.

• Drive FinOps initiatives, including resource rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, and cost

optimization.

• Manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), focusing on scaling, resource utilization, and

operational boundaries.

• Maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and change management processes.

• Manage Azure subscriptions, management groups, networking, identity, and access controls.

• Identify and remediate governance gaps, excessive permissions, and configuration drift.

Must-Have Skills

• 6+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience with production operations ownership.

• Strong expertise in Azure infrastructure, networking, subscriptions, and management groups.

• Experience with Azure governance, Azure Policy, RBAC, and identity/access management.

• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, or Bicep).

• Experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and operational remediation.

• Understanding of Azure cost optimization and FinOps practices.

• Ability to enforce security, governance, and operational standards.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Experience establishing CloudOps processes and governance frameworks.

• Exposure to Azure cost management, reservations, and savings plans.

• Experience with ITIL-based IT service management.

Mandatory Certifications (At least 2–3 certifications required):

o Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).

o Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).

o Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-140).

o Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900).

o Preferred: ITIL 4 Foundation certification.

Note: This is a Cloud Operations-focused role, not a DevOps enablement or application

development position. Candidates must demonstrate strong operational ownership,

governance enforcement, security awareness, and cost accountability.

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Good understanding of Azure services such as Compute, Storage, Event Hub, Event Subscription, Storage Queue, and PaaS services.
• Basic understanding of Azure AI Foundry and AI-related Azure service setup.
• Good Azure networking basics: VNet, subnet, routing, and basic troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, especially:
• Terraform state
• plan / apply
• troubleshooting failures
• migration risks
• Terraform Enterprise concepts
• Strong Python coding capability, not just basic scripting.
• Experience using Python for API integration, automation, JSON/YAML handling, and internal tooling.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures.
• Comfortable with YAML and JSON.
• Ability to troubleshoot Azure infrastructure/platform issues.
• Ability to collect logs/evidence and coordinate with network/app/Microsoft support teams.
• Basic awareness of agentic AI / LLM concepts.
• Awareness of security and cost best practices.

Good to Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Harness.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise.
• Exposure to LangGraph / LangChain.
• Exposure to agentic AI workflows or skill creation.
• Exposure to Claude or enterprise LLM integrations.
• Knowledge of Azure ML Workspace, model registry, and managed endpoints.
• MLOps / LLMOps knowledge.
• FinOps / Azure cost optimization experience.
• Azure certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500.

Screening Priority:

Azure Cloud + Terraform + Python Coding + CI/CD Troubleshooting + YAML/JSON + Basic Agentic AI Awareness

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years in Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps, with strong hands-on GCP experience.
• GCP Expertise: GKE, Compute Engine, IAM, VPC, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Load Balancing.
• Kubernetes & Containers: GKE, Docker, Kubernetes networking, Helm, and troubleshooting.
• DevOps & IaC: Azure DevOps, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Scripting: Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Security & Operations: Cloud security, IAM, monitoring, incident management, and cost optimization.
• Leadership & Ownership: Proven experience in team leadership, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, managing multiple product-line deliverables, and handling competing priorities and ad hoc requests.
• Additional Advantage: Experience with Microsoft Azure.

Snowflake Administrator

What You’ll Do

• Observability: Monitor Snowflake queries, virtual warehouses, tasks, data loads, and overall account health. Identify and resolve operational issues.
• FinOps & Cost Optimization: Monitor credit consumption, storage, and warehouse costs. Optimize warehouse sizing, auto-suspend settings, and resource monitors.
• User Management: Manage Snowflake users, roles, onboarding, offboarding, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Privilege Access Management: Review grants, privileged roles, access policies, and audit logs to enforce the principle of least privilege.
• Platform Maintenance: Maintain Snowflake account settings, integrations, and routine operational health checks.
• Service Desk Management: Triage incidents and service requests, investigating query failures, access issues, and platform-related problems.
• Enhancements & Automation: Improve Snowflake configurations, automate operational tasks, and streamline support processes.
• Business Continuity & Recovery: Support backup and retention policies, Time Travel, Fail-safe, and data recovery procedures.
• Deployment & CI/CD: Support controlled releases of Snowflake objects, roles, scripts, and configurations through CI/CD pipelines.
• Data Load Troubleshooting: Resolve issues related to Snowpipe, COPY commands, stages, file formats, connectivity, and scheduled data loads.
• Transformation & Data Model Support: Perform first-line troubleshooting of failed tasks, SQL errors, and schema changes.
• Functional Data Support: Investigate initial data availability and quality issues, coordinating with data owners for resolution.
• Project Support: Assist engineering teams with Snowflake environments, integrations, and migrations.
• Documentation: Maintain runbooks, access management procedures, operational guides, and knowledge base articles.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in data platform administration, operations, or production support, including hands-on Snowflake experience.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, including RBAC, virtual warehouses, query history, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake data loading, stages, tasks, Snowpipe, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python for scripting and automation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jira, ITSM processes, and monitoring or automation tools.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

ZyrOps Technologies is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, migration, and modernization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and manage Azure Landing Zones using Hub & Spoke architecture.
• Manage Azure IaaS and PaaS environments.
• Implement Azure Policy, Monitor, Sentinel, and Defender for Cloud.
• Design and manage Azure Firewall, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, ExpressRoute, and VPN.
• Lead on-premises to Azure migration projects.
• Develop Disaster Recovery and application modernization solutions.
• Manage Azure Arc, AKS, and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
• Work with Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and Nutanix.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, networking, and security issues.
• Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, security, and cost.
• Collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, security, and development teams.
• Maintain technical documentation and follow cloud architecture and security best practices.

8-12 years experience on Data Engineering role working with Databricks & Azure Cloud technologies.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Strong proficiency in PySpark, Python, SQL.

• Strong experience in data modeling, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and automation • Hands-on experience with performance tuning of data pipelines and workflow

• Proficient in working on Azure cloud components Azure Data Factory, Azure DataBricks, Azure Data Lake etc.

• Experience with data modeling, ETL processes, Delta Lake and data warehousing.

• Experience on Delta Live Tables, Autoloader & Unity Catalog.

Preferred - Knowledge of the insurance industry and its data requirements.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills to work effectively with diverse teams

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under tight deadlines. 

About the Role

You'll be at the forefront of designing and implementing robust data platform solutions that power advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning. Working with modern cloud technologies, you'll build scalable data foundations that enable clients to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build scalable data pipelines using Snowflake, AWS, GCP, and Databricks.
• Design and optimize data models for AI and machine learning workloads.
• Develop reliable data foundations for MLOps, governance, and data lineage.
• Integrate data from multiple sources into modern data platforms.
• Leverage Snowpark ML and Snowflake's native AI capabilities.
• Ensure data platforms are secure, scalable, and high-performing.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of cloud storage services such as S3, ADLS, or GCS.
• Strong understanding of Dimensional Modeling and Data Vault.
• Experience with Scala or Java is a plus.

Tech Stack

• Data Warehouse: Snowflake
• Programming: SQL, Python, Scala (Good to Have), Java (Good to Have)
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Storage: S3, ADLS, GCS
• AI/ML: Snowpark ML, MLOps

Perks & Benefits

• Public Speaking & Communication Program
• Mentoring Program with Senior Support Leads
• 360° Progress Reviews
• Weekly Learning Sessions & Guilds
• Paid Certifications
• Hackathons & Innovation Days
• Recognition & Rewards Programs
• Team Socials & Annual Offsites
• Employee Assistance Program (24/7 Wellbeing Support)

The Data People Shaping Tomorrow

Our client helps organizations unlock the power of data through modern cloud, analytics, and AI solutions. We believe in creating an environment where talented technologists can learn, innovate, and make a real impact while building cutting-edge data platforms for global clients. If you're passionate about data engineering and want to work with the latest technologies in AI, cloud, and analytics, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Infrastructure: Deploy, configure, and manage Azure IaaS and PaaS services, including Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, Azure Firewall, VPN/ExpressRoute gateways, storage, App Services, and Azure SQL.

Azure Landing Zones: Implement and maintain landing zones aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, including management groups, subscriptions, RBAC, Azure Policy, and resource tagging.

Cloud Migration: Execute on-premises-to-Azure migrations using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), and database migration tools.

Identity and Access Management: Manage Microsoft Entra ID integrations, Entra Connect, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and managed identities.

Backup and Disaster Recovery: Configure and manage Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, monitoring, and disaster recovery solutions.

L2 Support and Incident Management: Resolve infrastructure incidents and service requests within agreed SLAs, perform root-cause analysis, and escalate complex issues to L3 teams with detailed diagnostics.

Cloud Security: Apply security baselines using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and implement secure-score recommendations.

Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Automate routine tasks using PowerShell and Azure CLI, and work with ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.

Cost Optimization: Monitor Azure consumption, optimize resource utilization, and prepare monthly cloud usage and cost reports.

Technical Documentation: Prepare low-level designs, operational runbooks, as-built documentation, and project handover documents.

Presales Support: Assist with effort estimation, technical solution inputs, and proof-of-concept implementations.

Required Skills and Qualifications

3–5 years of hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

At least 2 years of experience in customer-facing consulting or managed services environments.

Strong working knowledge of Azure networking, compute, storage, and identity services.

Practical experience delivering at least one end-to-end Azure migration or landing zone deployment.

Good understanding of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.

Hands-on scripting experience with PowerShell.

Working knowledge of Bicep, ARM templates, or Terraform.

Familiarity with ITIL processes and ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, Freshservice, or similar platforms.

Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to interact with customer IT teams.

Certifications

Mandatory

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).

Preferred

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500).

Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700).

Good to Have

Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop deployment and image management.

Exposure to Microsoft Sentinel or Microsoft Defender XDR.

Experience supporting UAE government or semi-government customers.

Arabic language proficiency.

Candidate Requirements

Currently based in the UAE with a valid residence visa, or able to transfer the visa without delay.

Available to join immediately or within 15 days.

A valid UAE driving licence is preferred for customer site visits.

Willing to work at customer premises and support occasional after-hours change windows