Principal Consultant - Cloud & DevOps

Principal Consultant – Cloud & DevOps would lead the design, implementation, and governance of cloud-native and DevOps solutions across Azure and AWS environments.

The role would involve transformation of an MVP application into a production-grade, multi-tenant SaaS platform by enabling cloud-native architecture—driving database migration (SQLite → PostgreSQL/SQL), containerized deployments on Azure, secure identity and access management (AAD/RBAC), CI/CD pipeline implementation, API gateway enablement, observability setup, and performance optimization for scalable operations.

Design and operate a secure, scalable cloud platform capable of supporting tens of thousands of concurrent users by implementing robust CI/CD, container orchestration, monitoring, and reliability engineering practices—leveraging automation and modern engineering accelerators (including AI-assisted development) to enable rapid, high-quality delivery.

Cloud Architecture & implementation (Azure + AWS)

Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud architectures on Azure and AWS

Drive adoption of PaaS, serverless, and container-based solutions

Architect solutions using:

• Azure App Service, Functions, Blob Storage, Key Vault, AAD (Entra ID)
• Equivalent AWS services (Lambda, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, ECS/EKS)

Establish cloud governance, security policies, and cost optimization strategies.

Containerization & Platform Engineering

Design and implement container-based platforms using Docker

Build and optimize:

• Docker Compose setups for multi-service environments
• Multi-stage builds for secure, lightweight images

Lead deployment using container orchestration platforms:

• Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) / Azure Container Apps

CI/CD & DevOps Transformation

Architect and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps to enable

• Automated builds, testing, and deployment pipelines
• Multi-stage environment promotion (Dev → QA → Prod)
• Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling updates)

Drive DevOps maturity and engineering productivity improvements

Source Control & Engineering Practices

Define and enforce Git best practices across teams:

• Branching strategies (trunk-based, GitFlow)
• Rebasing and clean commit management
• Mono-repo vs multi-repo governance

Establish PR standards, code review practices, and release workflows

Reliability, Observability & Operations

Observability — Structured logging, distributed tracing, APM (Application Insights, Datadog, or equivalent)

Reliability — Health checks, graceful degradation, retry patterns, circuit breakers, define Site reliability SLAs, SLOs, alerting, incident response

Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

Implement secure DevOps practices:

• Secret management (Key Vault / AWS Secrets Manager)
• Identity and access control (AAD / IAM)

Integrate security scans into pipelines (SAST, dependency, container scanning)

Performance

Provisioning Redis (Azure Cache, AWS ElastiCache)

Scaling / monitoring Redis

Required Technical Skills

Docker / Containers | Advanced — Compose, multi-stage builds, container orchestration

Azure Cloud | Proficient — App Service, Functions, Blob Storage, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory.

CI/CD | Advanced — GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps. Automated testing, staged deployments

Git | Advanced — Branching strategies, rebasing, monorepo or multi-repo workflows

Cluster provisioning & management | Advanced - Kubernetes / AKS orchestration

Required Experience

- Minimum 8 years professional experience in Cloud & DevOps

- Proven experience in scaling MVP/prototype applications to production-ready SaaS platforms, with responsibility for cloud architecture, performance optimization, high availability, and handling thousands of concurrent global users

- Hands-on experience enabling multi-tenant SaaS architectures, including data isolation strategies, tenant-aware configuration, and scalable infrastructure to support multiple clients securely

- implementation of automated database migration strategies, including schema versioning, zero-downtime deployments, and ensuring data integrity at scale

- experience in enabling enterprise identity for cloud workloads—SSO federation, OAuth2/OIDC flows, RBAC/least-privilege access, and secure credential lifecycle management across CI/CD and runtime

- Proven experience defining and implementing API platform controls—versioning, throttling policies, caching strategies, and performance standards—via API gateways/management platforms in cloud environments.

Required: Infrastructure & Operations

- Observability — Implement and operate end-to-end observability, including structured logging, distributed tracing, and APM (Application Insights, Datadog, or equivalent), with dashboards, alerting, and SLO-driven monitoring

- Security — Lead enterprise security practices across DevOps pipelines and cloud platforms, including secrets management, automated vulnerability scanning, policy governance, and alignment with OWASP and Zero Trust principles

- Performance — Design and implement performance strategies including CDN/edge delivery, distributed caching, autoscaling, and performance testing to support high concurrency and low-latency applications

- Reliability — Own system reliability through health checks, readiness/liveness probes, fault-tolerant deployments, and operational resilience mechanisms to maintain high availability and uptime

Preferred (Not Required)

- GIS / geospatial data experience (PostGIS, tile servers, Cesium)

- Experience migrating legacy/prototype codebases to production architecture

- Experience in engineering consultancy or infrastructure sector

- Machine learning model serving / inference pipeline experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of hands‑on software development experience.

BGV:

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.

• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.