Cloud SME/ Lead

Role: Cloud SME/ Lead

Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite – In Person Interview is Mandatory)

Duration: 6+ Months

• The Cloud SME is the go‑to expert for AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• This role designs, reviews, and supports cloud solutions to make sure they are secure, reliable, cost‑effective, and compliant.
• The SME guides teams, supports projects, resolves complex issues, and advises leadership and customers on cloud best practices.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Architecture & Design

• Design and review AWS and Azure cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, limited SaaS).
• Ensure solutions follow best practices for security, scalability, high availability, and DR.
• Support hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.
• Define standard architectures, templates, and guardrails.

2. Cloud Operations & Support

• Act as Level‑3 / SME escalation for AWS and Azure issues.
• Troubleshoot complex issues related to:
• Compute (EC2, Azure VMs)
• Storage (S3, EBS, Azure Blob, Disk)
• Networking (VPC, VNets, VPN, Load Balancers)
• Identity & Access (IAM, Azure AD)
• Support 24x7 operations model (on‑call or advisory).

3. Security & Compliance

• Enforce least‑privilege access, IAM best practices, and RBAC.
• Implement and review:
• Network security (NSG, Security Groups, NACLs)
• Encryption, Key Management (KMS, Key Vault)
• Logging and monitoring (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
• Support compliance, audits, and security reviews.

4. Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Drive automation using:
• Terraform / CloudFormation / ARM / Bicep
• Standardize repeatable builds and reduce manual work.
• Integrate cloud automation with CI/CD pipelines.

5. Cost Management & Optimization

• Monitor cloud spend and optimize costs using:
• Budgets, alerts, tagging, and chargeback/showback models
• Identify unused or oversized resources and recommend savings.

6. Cloud Migration & Modernization

• Support cloud migration strategies:
• Lift‑and‑shift
• Re‑platform
• Refactor
• Advise on application modernization, containers, and cloud‑native services.

7. Stakeholder & Team Enablement

• Act as technical advisor for:
• Project Managers
• Delivery teams
• Customers
• Review designs, provide approvals, and mentor engineers.
• Create documentation, SOPs, and runbooks.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• AWS Services: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, Route53, Lambda (basic)
• Azure Services: Azure VMs, VNets, Azure AD, Storage, Azure Monitor, Key Vault
• Strong understanding of:
• Networking
• Security
• Backup & DR
• Monitoring & logging
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools

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