Solution Engineer- Onam Cloud

About the job

Onam Cloud is a sovereign cloud platform operated by Saints and Masters India Private Limited. We offer public cloud, dedicated private cloud, bare-metal infrastructure, storage, Kubernetes, and hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity for customers requiring greater control, performance, compliance, and digital sovereignty.

We are looking for a hands-on Solution Engineer who can design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud and infrastructure solutions for Onam Cloud customers. You will own the technical aspects of the customer journey — from understanding requirements and designing solution architectures to conducting demonstrations and proof-of-concept deployments — and ensure approved solutions are clearly documented and handed over effectively to the implementation and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Engage customers to understand their business, application, infrastructure, security, compliance, and operational requirements
• Assess digital sovereignty and data residency requirements and design solutions for government, BFSI, and other regulated sectors
• Design solutions across public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, bare-metal, and on-premises environments
• Prepare solution architectures, bills of materials, technical proposals, presentations, implementation plans, and effort estimates
• Conduct product demonstrations, technical workshops, solution walkthroughs, and PoC deployments
• Recommend compute, storage, networking, virtualization, container, backup, and disaster recovery architectures
• Perform workload assessments and support migrations from VMware, on-premises platforms, AWS, and Azure
• Recommend modern monitoring, observability, automation, and AIOps practices
• Work closely with Sales, Platform Engineering, Customer Success, implementation, and partner teams
• Support customer onboarding and ensure smooth handover to implementation and operations teams
• Maintain reusable solution templates, architecture diagrams, and technical documentationRequired Skills
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Experience designing solutions on AWS, Microsoft Azure, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments
• Cloud-native architecture experience with Kubernetes deployment and administration
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, VPNs, firewalls, DNS, load balancing)
• Virtualization expertise (KVM, Proxmox VE, VMware)
• Hands-on knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure automation
• Understanding of bare-metal infrastructure, server hardware, storage, RAID, and data-centre environments
• Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, high availability, and capacity planning
• Familiarity with AIOps concepts (AI/ML-assisted monitoring, anomaly detection, observability)Preferred (nice to have)

Ceph, KubeVirt, OpenStack/CloudStack, OPNsense, Arista/Cisco networking, Keycloak/LDAP/SSO, GitOps/CI-CD, cloud security & compliance controls

Experience & Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud infrastructure, solution architecture, systems engineering, pre-sales, DevOps, or SRE
• Practical, hands-on infrastructure experience essential
• Certifications preferred: AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, CKA, CKAD, RHCSA, LFCS, or equivalent