WHAT YOU WILL DO:

- Develop a strong technical and functional understanding of assigned cloud projects: infrastructure builds, cloud migrations, modernization, landing zones, FinOps, and managed services.

- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and budgets aligned with cloud infrastructure complexity and migration wave planning.

- Lead cross-functional teams (cloud engineers, architects, DevOps, SRE, security) to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

- Track, monitor, and report on cloud project metrics: migration velocity, infrastructure uptime, security posture, cost optimization KPIs.

- Implement metrics-driven project management - define and publish KPIs (migration wave progress, infrastructure provisioning SLAs, cloud spend vs. budget) and take corrective actions.

- Communicate effectively with client and internal stakeholders to provide project updates, technical feasibility assessments, and address cloud-specific concerns.

- Ensure governance cadences (sprint reviews, architecture review boards, release gates) are adhered to.

- Manage project funding/invoicing timely and accurately.

- Mentor junior project managers in cloud delivery practices.

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

EXPERIENCE:

- Software Services Industry Experience: Minimum 6 years.

- Minimum 2+ years of Technical Project Management in Cloud projects (mandatory).

- Prior hands-on or architecture-level experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Prior software development or infrastructure engineering experience.

DOMAIN-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE: (must demonstrate fluency in at least 3 of the following)

- Cloud migration strategies: 6Rs (rehost, replatform, refactor, etc.), wave planning, dependency mapping.

- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or CDK.

- Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE).

- CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments: CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.

- Cloud security & compliance: IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CIS benchmarks, SOC2/ISO alignment.

- FinOps: cloud cost management, tagging strategy, reserved instances, savings plans.

- Managed services & SRE: monitoring (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus), incident management, SLAs/SLOs.

DELIVERY MANAGEMENT:

- Proven track record of delivering cloud projects on-time and under budget.

- Metrics-driven project management with cloud-specific KPIs.

- Agile/Scrum/Kanban fluency; experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar.

- Ability to manage multiple concurrent cloud projects.

COMMUNICATION & LEADERSHIP:

- Excellent written and oral English communication.

- Ability to work with multiple internal & client stakeholders, manage priorities, negotiate effectively.

- Strong leadership and conflict management skills.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

- Education: Graduate with a technical degree.

- Must be willing to work full time out of ShellKode Bangalore office for the first 3 months.

- Certifications preferred: AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKAD.

- PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent project management certification is a plus.

SCREENING NOTES:

- Location: Bangalore preferred.

- Must have actual cloud project delivery experience, not just certifications.