Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer (Hybrid Cloud Focus)

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Report to Manager

Department: Identity & Access Management (IAM)

About the Role We're seeking a Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer to reimagine how we deliver secure, enterprise-ready CIAM solutions. You'll shape the foundation of our commercial SaaS platform by designing infrastructure that transcends cloud boundaries while maintaining the rigor of a security-first mindset.

This role is for engineers who see vendor lock-in as an architectural challenge to solve, not an inevitability. You'll own the complete lifecycle of our deployment systems – from crafting cloud-agnostic pipelines to implementing tenant isolation patterns worthy of a Zero Trust product.

Your Impact Will

• Liberate our platform from cloud-specific dependencies without sacrificing velocity
• Embed security observability into every layer of the deployment process
• Empower developers to ship multi-cloud compatible services by default
• Transform internal tools into marketable SaaS capabilities
  
  

We Value

• Systems thinkers who prototype their way to elegant abstractions
• Engineers who document through code-first principles
• Architects who treat compliance as a feature, not a constraint
  
  

Role Focus

Eliminate Cloud Lock-in

Redesign current Azure App Services implementation into vendor-agnostic architecture

Implement CNCF standards for portable multi-cloud deployments (Crossplane, KCP, Cluster API)

Future-Proof CI/CD Foundation

Build Dagger-based pipelines with OCI artifact compatibility

Design self-contained workflows executable on any compute (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/GitLab)

Tenant-Aware Platform Engineering

Create isolated tenant provisioning system using Cloud Native Building Blocks

Implement zero-trust networking for multi-customer deployments

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Re-architecture

• Replace app service dependencies with Kubernetes operators
• Design using cloud-portable services:
• Backstage for developer portal
• OpenFGA for relationship-based access control
• NATS/JetStream for cloud-agnostic messaging
  
  

Pipeline Ownership

• Convert existing workflows to Dagger modules with CUE unification
• Create pipeline execution environments supporting:
• Air-gapped deployments
• Hybrid cloud testing matrices
• WASM-based testing tools
  
  

Tenant Operations

• Build multi-tenant control plane with:
• Capsule for namespace isolation
• Vcluster for tenant-specific control planes
• Paralus for zero-trust access
  
  

Technical Non-Negotiables ✅ 5+ years production experience with:

• Multi-cloud Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE + Rancher/KubeSpray)
• Pipeline abstraction tools (Dagger, Earthly, Tekton)
• Secret zero patterns (SPIRE/SPIFFE/Vault)
  
  

✅ Proven Success In

• Migrating vendor-locked systems to OSS equivalents
• Building commercial SaaS from internal platforms
• Implementing policy-as-code for tenant isolation
  
  

✅ Deep Expertise With

• Service meshes (Linkerd/Istio) for multi-tenant networking
• Cloud cost attribution across tenants
• OCI-compliant artifact registries
  
  

Key Differentiators

Portability-First Mindset: Rejects cloud-specific services in favor of open standards

Product Engineering Focus: Builds internal platform as externalizable product

Tenant-Centric Security: Implements commercial-grade isolation patterns

Execution Autonomy: Full control over CI/CD and deployment architecture

Benefits

• The ability to collaborate with, learn from colleagues in a highly complex, global organisation.
• We provide a working environment with a creative company, paired with a great compensation package, great benefits, and a supportive atmosphere where you can sharpen with new challenges and development opportunities.
• Hybrid work-from-home and at a determined Rockwell Automation facility.
• Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities,
• Support from our 24/7 employee assistance program.
• Reporting will to Technical Lead.
  
  

Primary work location: Noida/Pune/Bangalore, India.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.