Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description:

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Platform architecture and evolution

Function - Infrastructure & Operations

Coverage - Across all clients

Role Overview

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is the senior technical owner of Merkle Denmark’s cloud platform architecture. The role focuses on designing, building, and evolving the cloud foundations, guardrails, and platform capabilities that underpin client operations — ensuring environments are reliable, secure, and well-governed.

The role is a hands-on specialist position. It sets the direction for how cloud infrastructure is designed, built, and hardened across client accounts, and provides deep technical input on complex incidents, major changes, and architecture-impacting decisions. People leadership, resource allocation, and day-to-day team direction sit with the Engineering Director.

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

• 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.

Operational Governance

• 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 — Cloud Ops owns production stability; Cloud Infrastructure owns design and evolution.

• 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.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• 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.

Must-Have Skillset –

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer -Over 8+ years of exp

• Cloud Architecture Expertise (Azure, AWS, or GCP)Design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms Define platform guardrails and architecture standards
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or equivalent Building and maintaining automated infrastructure deployments
• Cloud Security & Compliance Secure-by-design architecture principles Platform-level security controls, vulnerability/CVE management Understanding of compliance frameworks, governance, and audit requirements
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Design and implementation of DR, backup, restore, and resilience strategiesHigh availability and fault-tolerant architecture design
• ITIL / ITSM Knowledge Strong understanding of: Incident Management hange Management Problem Management SLA Governance
• Critical Incident & Escalation Management Experience providing technical leadership during P1/P0 incidents Root cause analysis and architecture-level problem resolution
• Operational Governance Define platform standards, operational patterns, and best practices Support incident, change, and service management frameworks
• Client & Stakeholder Management Act as senior technical advisor during architecture reviews Experience working directly with enterprise clients and stakeholders
• Multi-Cloud & Managed Services Experience Experience in professional services, managed operations, or multi-client environments Understanding of contractual obligations, SLAs, and service delivery models
• Technical Skills Networking (VNet/VPC, VPN, Load Balancers, DNS, Firewalls)Windows/Linux Server Administration Containers & Kubernetes Monitoring & Observability tools Automation and Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Experience with NIS2, GDPR, and data processing regulations
• Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or CI/CD expertise
• Excellent written and verbal English communication Ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders

Nice-to-Have

• Danish language proficiency
• Public sector or enterprise platform experience

Working Context

The role sits within the Merkle Denmark engineering organisation, reporting to the CTO and working closely with the Engineering Director, Infrastructure & Operations. The Infrastructure & Operations function is distributed across Denmark, Bulgaria, India, and the Philippines, and operates across multiple client accounts including public sector and enterprise digital platforms.

The function works within a ticket-first, evidence-driven operational model. Production is owned by Cloud Operations; platform architecture and guardrails are owned by Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. This separation of duties supports governance, auditability, and clear accountability.

Location:

DGS India - Pune - Indiqube Orchid

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent