Consultant Expert - Public Cloud
Societe Generale
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Responsibilities
Job Title: Consultant Expert – Public Cloud (GTE/CLD/TPP Team)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced public cloud consultant/expert – domain experience ranging between 8-15 years requiring strong hands‑on expertise in cloud infrastructure and the ability to drive cloud adoption initiatives across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
You will be a key member of the Cloud Professional Services team, responsible for:
- Collaborating effectively with global, cross‑functional teams with a focus on teamwork and mentoring.
- Playing an active role in training, consulting, and enabling internal teams to build cloud competencies and accelerate cloud adoption/migration across the organization.
- Identifying customer needs and proposing new services, capabilities, and modernization opportunities in private cloud environments.
- Ensuring all solutions incorporate best practices for multi‑cloud security, governance, and operational reliability.
- Evaluating new technologies, conducting proof‑of‑concepts, and providing hands‑on implementation guidance.
- Developing and maintaining automation workflows, scripts, or tooling using Python programming languages.
Stakeholder Management
Build strong relationships with Product Owners and key business stakeholders.
Provide product vision and strategic direction to the team.
Continuous Improvement
Promote best practices in cloud engineering, DevOps, and automation.
Ensure compliance with organizational standards and regulatory requirements.
Technical Requirements
- Strong hands‑on knowledge across major cloud platforms (AWS / Azure) including compute, storage, networking, databases, middleware, serverless, and security.
- Good understanding of multi‑cloud networking concepts such as virtual networks, gateways, VPNs, and public/private/elastic IPs.
- Handson experience with cloud services.
- Practical experience with containerization.
- Solid knowledge of Cloud Security including IAM, threat mitigation, and zero‑trust/default‑deny models.
- Hands‑on experience in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, or Cloud Blueprints.
- Ability to write, understand, and maintain automation pipelines, scripts, or orchestration workflows using Python or comparable programming languages.
- Experience designing or adopting CI/CD frameworks and infrastructure provisioning blueprints is a plus.
- Familiarity with cloud‑native design patterns and modernization of legacy applications for cloud deployment.
- Strong presentation, communication, and knowledge‑sharing skills with the ability to train teams, mentor engineers, and actively encourage cloud adoption across the organization.
Qualifications
Preferred Certifications: Azure/AWS Certified Solution Architect or DevOps professional..
Excellent understanding of business domain, operating environment, constraints, and regulatory requirements.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
Ability to collaborate with external teams for high performance.
Soft Skills
Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
Ability to influence and drive change across teams.
Ability to collaborate effectively within a distributed, cross-country team