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Cloud Engineering Leadership Opportunity in Chennai

Join a forward-thinking enterprise cloud excellence team in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. We are seeking a highly skilled Lead/Architecture Cloud Engineer to spearhead the modernization of our core service layer. This pivotal role involves architecting high-scale, secure, and resilient serverless solutions, with a strong emphasis on building mission-critical API ecosystems and event-driven backends that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise API Development: Design and implement robust RESTful/GraphQL APIs and leverage Azure API Management (APIM) for comprehensive policy-driven governance, effective rate limiting, and enhanced security.
• Distributed Messaging: Architect decoupled and reliable communication patterns using Azure Service Bus (Queues and Topics/Subscriptions) to manage complex cross-service transactions and high-volume message processing efficiently.
• Zero-Trust Security: Implement enterprise-grade security measures by centralizing secret management, keys, and certificates within Azure Key Vault. Utilize Managed Identities and RBAC for passwordless authentication.
• Data Persistence: Integrate and optimize document-based workloads with technologies like MongoDB (Atlas or Cosmos DB for MongoDB), ensuring data consistency and efficient indexing for global scalability.
• Resiliency Patterns: Employ Durable Functions for sophisticated stateful workflows and implement essential resiliency patterns such as Circuit Breaker and Retry with Exponential Backoff to guarantee system reliability.
• Governance & DevOps: Standardize infrastructure deployments and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for seamless development and deployment workflows.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience: A minimum of 8 to 12 years of professional backend software engineering experience, with at least 5 years dedicated to building and scaling applications on the Microsoft Azure or GCP platforms.
• Transformation Expertise: A proven track record of successfully transitioning monolithic legacy systems into modern serverless, event-driven architectures.
• Enterprise Environment Acumen: Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments, adept at navigating complex security requirements and collaborating effectively with cross-functional DevOps and Security teams.

Technical Skillset:

• Node.js/TypeScript Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Node.js (including Async/Await, Event Loop concepts) and production-grade TypeScript.
• Messaging Patterns: Deep understanding of Azure Service Bus features, including dead-lettering, duplicate detection, and message sessions.
• Enterprise Security: Familiarity with Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) and securing private endpoints for Azure Key Vault and databases.
• Observability: Proficiency in utilizing Azure Monitor and Application Insights for distributed tracing and performance tuning to ensure optimal application performance.

Preferred Certifications:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).