Cloud Ops Engineer

The Te am: The Mobility Division within S&P Global uses te chnology and data science to deliver insights, forecasts, and advisory services across the automotive value chain. The Cloud Operations te am enables these products by running a reliable, well-governed cloud foundation—working in a collaborative culture focused on shared learning, operational rigor, and continuous improvement across a multi-account environment.

The Impact: This role is the operations owner for cloud governance and compliance at scale . You’ll keep cloud environments “day-1/day-2 ready” through strong account lifecycle management, guardrails, patch/vulnerability workflows, and audit-ready evidence. You’ll partner with Security/Risk (as stakeholders) and with Platform/App te ams (as executors/owners) to ensure standards are implemen te d without slowing delivery.

Responsibilities

Own and improve core cloud operations capabilities: account vending, guardrails, compliance evidence, and vulnerability/patch hygiene Work cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, application te ams, IAM, Risk/GRC, and Audit in a global environment Drive automation (policy-as-code / IaC / scripting) to reduce toil and improve consis te n cy Gain exposure to multi-cloud operations (AWS/Azure/GCP) where applicable, while building durable governance pat te rns Required Skills: 3-6 years in cloud operations / platform engineering / cloud governance (operations-first, not a security analyst role) Hands-on experience running multi-account / multi-subscription environments: provisioning, inventory/metadata, tagging standards, baseline logging/monitoring, and decommissioning Strong cloud governance + guardrails experience (OU/org structures, inheri te d controls, policy change management, exception handling) Operational experience with policy-as-code (e.

g., Cloud Custodian): deploying policies, tuning, handling exceptions/rollbacks, producing metrics/evidence Practical vulnerability + patch operations : using tools like Te n a ble, triaging findings, routing to owners, tracking SLAs, reporting aging, maintaining coverage/data quality Automation skills (Python/Bash/Power.

Shell) and familiarity with IaC concepts ( Te rraform/Cloud. Formation-style) Strong operational discipline: runbooks, change management, incident support, stakeholder communication, audit evidence handling Nice to have Multi-cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and comfort standardizing controls across platforms IAM governance exposure (RBAC/least privilege patterns, access reviews, break-glass processes) Experience integrating compliance/guardrails into CI/CD and platform “paved roads” Backup/DR operational experience (restore testing, RTO/RPO alignment, documentation) Cloud certifications (ops/architecture certifications are a plus)