Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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Paramount Streaming Technology is seeking a highly skilled Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and evolve our next-generation cloud platform supportingreal-time data streaming, AI-driven analytics, and global content delivery. As a senior member of the Applied Intelligence Engineering team, you will lead technical initiatives across cloud, networking, and automation domains to ensure scalable,secure, and reliable operations across our multi-cloud environments. You will partner with cross-functional teams to drive infrastructure modernization, improve developervelocity, and establish best practices for high-performance, resilient systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and optimize multi-cloud infrastructure across GCP and OCI to support large-scale data and streaming workloads.
• Lead infrastructure initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, automation, and observability across cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code frameworks to standardize deployments and improve developer self-service capabilities.
• Collaborate with platform, data, and software engineering teams to align infrastructure design with system performance and security requirements.
• Design and implement advanced networking architectures, including VPC peering, VPNs, load balancers, and cross-region failover strategies.
• Drive incident response, reliability reviews, and postmortems to improve uptime and reduce operational risk.
• Lead cloud cost governance, monitoring usage patterns, and optimizing resource allocations to balance performance and spend efficiency.
• Mentor and guide infrastructure engineers in best practices for automation, observability, and scalable systems design.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to enforce strong cloud security standards, including IAM policies, encryption, and key management.
• Develop infrastructure blueprints and documentation to promote consistency, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing across teams.
  
  

Technical Expertise

• Cloud Platforms: Expert-level experience with GCP and OCI; strong understanding of AWS services and multi-cloud networking.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficient with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD workflows for fully automated provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Kubernetes & Containerization: Deep expertise in Kubernetes (GKE, OKE), container orchestration, and service mesh implementations.
• Messaging & Streaming: Practical experience with Kafka or equivalent technologies supporting event-driven systems.
• Networking & Security: Advanced knowledge of VPCs, load balancers, firewalls, zero-trust models, and cloud-native security tools.
• Disaster Recovery & High Availability: Proven track record designing resilient multi-region systems and automated recovery workflows.
• Monitoring & Observability: Familiar with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging for real-time performance and incident detection.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 2+ years in a lead or technical leadership capacity.
• Proven experience managing and scaling distributed systems in production cloud environments.
• Strong programming or scripting experience with Java, Python, or similar languages for automation and infrastructure tooling.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
• Commitment to operational excellence, continuous improvement, and cloud-native innovation.
  
  

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Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is the home to the company's direct-to-consumer services spanning free and paid in the form of Pluto TV and Paramount+. Pluto TV is the global leader in free ad-supported TV, delivering more than 1,400 global channels and an extensive library of streaming content, including live and original channels. Paramount+, digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, combines live sports, breaking news, and A Mountain of Entertainment™. Paramoun