Principal Cloud Engineer at Pearson in Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

Job Title: Principal Cloud Engineer****Job Description: We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Cloud Management & Platform Engineering team.

In this role, you will design, build, and operate enterprise-scale multi-cloud governance and enablement platforms across Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, AWS, and Azure. You will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, platform engineering practices, and AI-driven operational tooling to improve security, consistency, scalability, and developer experience across our cloud estate. This is a highly technical, hands-on engineering role focused on cloud automation, governance, security, and platform reliability.What You'll Do****Cloud Platform Engineering

• Design and build cloud governance and enablement services across multi-cloud environments (GCP, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure).

• Develop reusable platform capabilities that accelerate secure cloud adoption.

• Implement and maintain cloud account/project onboarding frameworks.

• Design and manage enterprise cloud networking, security, and connectivity patterns.

• Maintain integrations with observability, monitoring, logging, and security platforms.

• Build and manage secure ingress protection services including WAF and DDoS controls.

• Design enterprise logging, telemetry, and SIEM integration patterns.

• Develop and maintain golden VM images and hardened infrastructure baselines. Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Build and maintain Terraform-based cloud provisioning frameworks.

• Develop automation using Python, Go, Ansible, Bash, and cloud-native APIs.

• Create reusable modules, templates, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery.

• Implement automated testing, validation, compliance, and policy enforcement controls.

• Drive platform modernization through automation-first engineering practices. Cloud Governance & Security

• Translate security, compliance, and governance requirements into cloud-native policies and guardrails.

• Define and implement enterprise cloud governance standards.

• Partner with Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams to establish secure access control models.

• Improve cloud posture management through automation and continuous compliance monitoring.

• Design scalable governance frameworks that balance security with developer productivity. AI & Intelligent Operations

• Design and implement AI-assisted and agentic workflows to streamline cloud operations and governance activities.

• Explore and deploy automation capabilities leveraging AI/ML technologies.

• Develop operational tooling that improves incident response, remediation, and platform insights. Reliability & Operations

• Operate and support business-critical cloud management platforms.

• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting cloud platform services.

• Drive reliability, availability, and performance improvements.

• Implement robust observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational support patterns. Technical Leadership

• Act as a technical SME for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud platforms.

• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Contribute to platform strategy, architecture, and roadmap planning. Required Skills & Experience****Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building Infrastructure as Code solutions.

• 3+ years of experience operating cloud platforms at enterprise scale.

• Experience working in multi-cloud environments.

• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, networking, and automation. This role needs to support on the US hours

Cloud PlatformsHands-on experience with:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (Preferred)

• AWS

• Azure Additional experience with the following is highly desirable:

• IBM Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Terraform

• Ansible

• Python

• Go

• Bash/Shell scripting

• Cloud Provider APIs and SDKs

• CI/CD platforms and GitOps practices Cloud Governance & SecurityExperience with:

• Policy-as-Code

• IAM and Access Governance

• Compliance Automation

• Security Guardrails

• Cloud Security Best Practices

• Logging, Monitoring, and Observability Platforms

• SIEM Integration Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

• Experience working within a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) or Platform Engineering organization.

• Experience implementing Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).

• Experience with AI-powered operational tooling or agentic automation frameworks.

• Familiarity with:

• Terragrunt

• PowerShell

• JavaScript / Node.js

• Kubernetes

• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins

• Open Policy Agent (OPA)

• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions What Success Looks Like

• Increased automation and reduction in manual cloud operations.

• Improved cloud governance and security posture.

• Faster and more consistent cloud onboarding and provisioning.

• Enhanced developer experience through reusable platform services.

• Scalable, reliable, and secure multi-cloud operations.