Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Teknosys - Islamabad

Description :

Grade Level: L3
Experience Required: 6–8 Years
Location: Islamabad / Rawalpindi
Last Date to Apply: 15th February 2026

What is Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Teknosys ?

TekNoSys is seeking an experienced Lead Infrastructure & Kubernetes Platform Architect to design, build, and operate our on-premises and private cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on Kubernetes-based platforms, reliability engineering, and production operations.

You will lead the architecture and management of highly available, scalable, and secure on-prem environments, enabling critical applications to run efficiently across data center infrastructure. This role requires deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster design, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure reliability, along with strong leadership to guide engineering teams and drive operational excellence.

What does Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer do?

Infrastructure & Platform Architecture

• Design, deploy, and manage on-premises and private cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications.
• Architect highly available Kubernetes clusters across bare metal or virtualized environments.
• Define standards for scalability, resilience, and performance across the platform.

Kubernetes & Container Platform Management

• Build, upgrade, and maintain production-grade on-prem Kubernetes clusters.
• Manage cluster lifecycle including provisioning, scaling, patching, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Develop Helm charts, manifests, and platform templates for standardized deployments.
• Optimize resource utilization and capacity planning across nodes and workloads.

Automation & Configuration Management

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks to minimize manual intervention.
• Standardize repeatable infrastructure processes and deployment pipelines.

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability

• Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, or similar.
• Establish logging, tracing, and observability best practices across clusters.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks, performance issues, and failure risks.
• Drive SRE practices including SLAs, SLOs, and incident response.

CI/CD & Platform Enablement

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting containerized application deployments.
• Integrate DevOps workflows with Kubernetes for seamless releases.
• Enable self-service environments for development teams.

Security & Compliance

• Implement Kubernetes and infrastructure security best practices (RBAC, network policies, secrets management).
• Ensure secure network segmentation, firewalls, encryption, and access controls.
• Maintain compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.

Incident Management & Disaster Recovery

• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration for critical production issues.
• Define and test backup, failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Ensure high availability and business continuity.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and mentor infrastructure and platform engineers.
• Collaborate closely with development, QA, and operations teams.
• Define platform roadmaps and continuously improve operational maturity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 6–8 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or System Administration.
• Proven experience managing production-grade on-prem or private cloud environments.
• Strong background in Kubernetes platform operations and cluster management.

Technical Skills & Technologies

Core Infrastructure

• On-prem data center environments, virtualization (VMware vSphere, OpenStack, or similar)
• Bare metal server provisioning and management
• Storage systems (SAN/NAS/Ceph or equivalent)

Kubernetes & Containers

• Advanced Kubernetes (cluster setup, scaling, upgrades, networking, security)
• Docker / container runtimes
• Helm, Kustomize, manifests

Automation

• Terraform, Ansible, or similar IaC tools
• Shell/Python scripting

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus, Grafana
• ELK/EFK stack
• Alerting and logging frameworks

CI/CD & DevOps

• Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar
• Git workflows and version control

Networking & Security

• TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, firewalls
• RBAC, IAM, encryption, network policies

Cloud (Optional/Hybrid)

• Exposure to AWS/Azure/GCP for hybrid or DR environments (nice to have, not primary)

Core Competencies

• Leadership and technical ownership
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Platform reliability mindset
• Automation-first approach
• Capacity planning and performance tuning
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder communication

Benefits

Why Join Jazz?

As one of the leading employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.

Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer-obsession.

As one of the largest private sector organizations in Pakistan, our objective is to continue to change the lives of our 70 million customers for the better. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.