Global Senior Cloud Engineer, Asia Pacific

Job Description

Overview：

Our Global Cloud Team is seeking a Cloud Architect based in Shanghai to lead the design, governance, and optimization of cutting-edge cloud strategies for our top-tier business operations.

In this role, you will shape the future of our multi-cloud ecosystem, ensuring alignment with business objectives while driving innovation, security, and cost efficiency across AWS, AliCloud, Azure and IDC platforms.

You will own end-to-end responsibility for developing and executing cloud strategies that empower our global logistics network. Your mission will include:

• Designing enterprise-grade cloud architectures that integrate compute, storage, networking, and security services to meet the demands of a rapidly growing, multinational business.
• Building scalable frameworks for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring compliance, resilience, and seamless cross-regional collaboration.
• Partnering with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical blueprints, balancing innovation with operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities：

Enterprise Cloud Strategy & Architecture

• Define and govern the enterprise cloud architecture framework, ensuring alignment with corporate IT strategy, security policies and compliance standards.
• Architect multi-cloud/hybrid solutions (AliCloud, AWS, Azure) that integrate compute, storage, networking, and security services (e.g., VPC/Express Route, WAF, Kubernetes, IAM, PaaS/SaaS solutions).
• Develop and maintain cloud adoption roadmaps, including migration strategies (rehost, refactor, replatform) and TCO/ROI analysis for cloud-native and hybrid workloads.

Operational Excellence & Troubleshooting:

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in diagnosing and resolving complex cloud infrastructure issues (e.g., IAM misconfigurations, storage performance bottlenecks) across multi-cloud/hybrid environments.
• Proficiency in using cloud-native monitoring and debugging tools (e.g., AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, AliCloud ActionTrail, Prometheus) to perform root cause analysis (RCA) and optimize system reliability.
• Record of leading incident response efforts for critical outages, including post-mortem analysis, mitigation planning, and implementing preventive guardrails.
• Experience collaborating with Managed Service Provider to refine observability strategies, troubleshooting workflows, and enforce SLAs/SLOs.

Cross-Functional Governance & Delivery Excellence

• Collaborate with the global cloud governance team including FinOps practices, cost optimization strategies, and resource tagging policies.
• Cross-functional teams (Platform, Security, Network Engineering) to deliver compliant, scalable infrastructure solutions with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and post-implementation audits to ensure adherence to SLAs, SLOs and operational resilience.

Cloud Transformation

• Partner with the stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical cloud strategies, emphasizing innovation.
• Spearhead cloud center of excellence (CCOE) initiatives to standardize best practices, toolchains, and knowledge sharing across global teams.
• Evangelize DevSecOps culture by integrating security-by-design, automated compliance checks, and zero-trust architectures into cloud workflows.

Operational Optimization & Innovation

• Monitor and optimize cloud performance using observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.
• Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native design patterns, disaster recovery strategies (backup/DR), and greenfield/brownfield modernization.

Executive-Level Communication:

• Demonstrated ability to articulate complex cloud architectures, trade-offs and business value to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives, regional business leaders, and external partners.
• Proven experience facilitating cross-functional workshops, negotiating technical requirements and driving consensus among geographically dispersed teams.
• Expertise in creating clear, audience-tailored deliverables such as architecture diagrams, executive briefings, and cost-benefit analyses.

Global Collaboration:

• Ability to navigate cultural nuances and time zones, ensuring inclusive communication and alignment across global teams.
• Fluency in English (written/spoken) is mandatory.

Required competencies and skills

Technical Expertise & Experiences:

• Progressive cloud architecture experience in large-scale MNCs, including designing and building up blueprint base solutions on at least two Public CSP (AWS, AliCloud, Azure).
• Proven track record in leading enterprise cloud migrations, hybrid cloud integrations, and multi-region deployments.
• Strong analytical mindset with expertise in creating architecture decision records (ADRs), solution blueprints and risk mitigation plans.
• Expert hands-on experience of cloud-native services:

• Compute: ECS/EC2, Lambda/Serverless, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS).
• Storage: S3/EFS/EBS/OSS/Blob Storage
• Networking: VPC peering, CEN/Transit Gateway, DNS/Global Accelerator.
• Security: IAM policies, KMS, Secrets Manager, DDoS protection.

• Proficiency in IaC (Terraform, Ansible), DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitLab) and observability platforms.
• Exceptional ability to communicate cross-functionally within a highly energetic team. Strong stakeholder engagement (internal and external) with the ability to influence.
• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent understanding of ITIL/ITSM processes (IM, CM, PM, SR, etc.)
• Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
• Comfortable working independently and dealing with ambiguity. Able to operate successfully in a rapidly changing, and undefined environment
• Proactive, disciplined, organized, self-starter and highly motivated

Communication & Soft Skills

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and translating technical concepts into business value.
• Exceptional verbal and written English communications and presentation skills.

Certifications (Preferred)

• Architectural Credentials: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (Mandatory), Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Alibaba Cloud ACE.
• Industry Standards: TOGAF, ITIL v4.

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