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Merkle

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

cloud infrastructurecloud architectureterraformbicepIaCAzureAWSGCPITILITSMincident managementchange managementSLA governanceNIS2securitydisaster recoveryplatform engineering

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Pune, India

Full job description

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is the senior technical owner of Merkle Denmark’s cloud platform architecture. The role involves designing, building, and evolving cloud foundations, guardrails, and platform capabilities to ensure reliable, secure, and well-governed client environments. Responsibilities include architecting cloud infrastructure, defining secure-by-design patterns, designing resilience and disaster recovery strategies, owning and evolving infrastructure-as-code practices, providing specialist guidance during complex incidents, and ensuring compliance with security and audit standards. The role requires experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, strong IaC skills (Terraform, Bicep), deep ITIL/ITSM knowledge, and the ability to handle critical escalations and client interactions. The position reports to the CTO and works closely with the Engineering Director within a multi-client, commercially governed environment.

What you'll do

  • Architect and build cloud foundations and platform capabilities across client environments.
  • Define secure-by-design patterns, guardrails, and platform standards for Cloud Operations to operate within.
  • Design resilience and continuity architecture, including backup/restore strategy and disaster recovery.
  • Own and evolve infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices and tooling standards.
  • Drive continuous improvement of the platform approach, ensuring it evolves with client needs and industry practice.
  • Provide specialist guidance to Cloud Operations Engineers during complex incident investigations, major changes, and architecture-impacting decisions.
  • Assess and respond to critical CVEs and security advisory items, coordinating with dentsu EMEA security where required.
  • Define platform-level patterns that support incident management, change management, SLA governance, and on-call practice.
  • Provide senior technical input on P1/critical incidents and client-impacting situations where infrastructure or platform expertise is needed.
  • Ensure platform ownership responsibilities are clearly defined and applied.
  • Maintain platform design standards that support audit-readiness, NIS2, and client contractual obligations.
  • Contribute to operational reporting quality, including platform health signals and SLA-relevant metrics.
  • Act as senior technical point of contact for client escalations requiring infrastructure or platform expertise.
  • Collaborate with Project Managers and delivery teams on change planning, release readiness, and deployment governance.
  • Contribute to account-level technical conversations, including architecture reviews and SLA design.
  • Support pre-sales and proposal work where infrastructure architecture or managed operations expertise is required.

Requirements

  • Proven experience architecting and running cloud infrastructure in a professional services or managed operations context (Azure/AWS/GCP).
  • Strong IaC proficiency (Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent) and understanding of secure-by-design cloud patterns.
  • Deep understanding of ITIL/ITSM practices: incident management, change management, problem management, and SLA governance.
  • Experience handling critical escalations and acting as a senior technical interface with clients.
  • Ability to work across both strategic platform design and hands-on technical input when required.
  • Comfortable operating in a multi-client, commercially governed environment with contractual obligations (SLAs, NIS2, data processing).
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Danish is an advantage.

Tech stack

AzureAWSGCPTerraformBicepInfrastructure as Code (IaC)

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