Principal Cloud Engineer

We aspire to be world-leader in innovative telecom and security solutions by offering cutting-edge, high-performance telecom and security solutions to business customers.

Our Mission is simple. To prove that Indian engineers can design, develop, and manufacture world-class technology products for customers across the world, right from India. Join our team of like-minded engineers, applied researchers, and technocrats with the will, courage, and madness to achieve this mission!

Why work at Matrix

Matrix fully integrates software and hardware across its products. Engineers here collaborate more effectively to create solutions that solve real problems and make an impact. We are responsible for every nut, bolt, and line of code in our products!

As an engineer, your involvement will be critical in the entire lifecycle of a product - right from ideation-development-production-deployment. Get to feel the sense of accomplishment that comes with creating something that solves a real and pressing problem and is used by scores of customers.

Job Description

Role : Principal Cloud Engineer

Function : Cloud Architecture

Work Location : Vadodara, Gujarat

Who are you

You are a Senior/Principal Cloud Engineer with 6–12 years of experience, including 2+ years of architecture ownership, who has designed and operated production-grade AWS SaaS platforms. Strong hands-on expertise in AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, VPC/networking, IAM/security, RDS, ALB/Route53/WAF, HA/DR and observability. Proven experience designing scalable multi-tenant microservices architectures, optimizing AWS infrastructure cost and performance, leading production incident RCA, defining NFRs/SLA/SLO, and creating HLD/LLD/architecture documentation. Should be capable of evaluating AWS/Azure/GCP services, mentoring engineers and presenting architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

Experience : 6+ Years

Qualification : B.E/B.tech/M.E/ M.tech (EC, Electronics, Electronics & Telecommunication, Computer Engineering, CSE)

Technical Skills Required :

Role Overview:

Designs the Cloud architecture for SaaS Applications considering Scalability, Security, Cost and resilience. Ensure the availability of Platform as per defined SLA;. Owns the Architecture decisions and mentor junior team members.

Key Responsibilities:

● Infrastructure Architecture: Design end-to-end cloud architecture for the SaaS platform (compute, networking,

storage, DB, multi-tenancy model.

● Automation & IaC: Standardize environments through infra-as-code standards using tools like Terraform,

CloudFormation, or Ansible to eliminate manual configuration.

● CI/CD support: Support DevOps team to Optimize deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions for zero-downtime

releases.

● Cost & Performance Optimization: Audit AWS usage to optimize spend and right-size resources without sacrificing

performance.

● Incident Response & Security: Lead root-cause analysis (RCA) for AWS Infrastructure related incidents.

● Security: Design security architecture IAM, network segmentation, encryption, compliance — SOC2/ISO27001/GDPR as

applicable

● Mentorship: Guide junior engineers and document best practices.

● Additional responsibilities:

❖ Evaluate and select cloud services/vendors for new Applications (AWS/Azure/GCP, managed vs self-hosted)

❖ Own non-functional requirements: scalability, high availability, DR/BCP, latency, cost optimization

❖ Create capacity planning and cost-modeling for infra spend.

Required Skills:

● DevOps working knowledge will be an added advantage.

● AWS Expertise: Deep knowledge of EC2, EKS/ECS (Containers), RDS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, ALB, WAF, DR setup, IAM etc., working knowledge of GCP/Azure.

● Containerization: Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration.

● Monitoring: Hands-on experience with observability tools like Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, etc.

● Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional is preferred choice. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate can also be considered based on expertise.

● Deployment: Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, multi-tenant SaaS architecture

● Ability to produce architecture diagrams, technical design docs, and present to stakeholders.

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