Designs, implements, automates, and optimizes Azure and hybrid infrastructure. Responsibilities include Azure compute, networking, storage, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, identity, governance, infrastructure as code, cost optimization, and hybrid integration with Windows, Linux, VMware, storage, and network services. Leads infrastructure projects, resolves complex incidents, establishes technical standards, performs root-cause analysis, mentors engineers, and communicates architecture, risks, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
Job Description Summary
The Senior IT Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and optimizing complex Azure and hybrid infrastructure solutions. The role provides advanced support, leads medium to large projects, develops technical standards, and serves as an escalation point.This position requires broad technical expertise, independent decision-making, mature project execution, strong written and verbal communication, and the ability to influence outcomes across teams.
How will you make an impact & Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure, resilient, and supportable Azure infrastructure solutions based on business and technical requirements.
- Engineer Azure compute, networking, storage, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, identity integration, and governance capabilities.
- Design Azure storage solutions using Blob Storage, Azure Files, managed disks, private connectivity, encryption, lifecycle management, replication, immutability, and appropriate redundancy models.
- Lead hybrid integration across Azure, Windows Server, Linux, enterprise storage, backup platforms, VMware, Active Directory, DNS, and network services.
- Diagnose complex issues involving performance, availability, storage latency, networking, authentication, replication, backup, and application dependencies.
- Design automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Azure CLI, Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, JSON, YAML, source control, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, deployment patterns, configuration standards, and automated validation controls.
- Establish technical standards for availability, resiliency, security, monitoring, patching, backup, disaster recovery, capacity, and lifecycle management.
- Analyze Azure utilization, performance, and cost data and recommend rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, storage tiering, and architecture improvements.
- Lead medium to large infrastructure projects, including requirements, design, planning, scheduling, resource coordination, risk management, implementation, and operational transition.
- Create and review architecture diagrams, design documents, implementation plans, support models, risk assessments, test plans, and recovery procedures.
- Communicate complex concepts, options, risks, and recommendations to engineers, architects, project managers, application owners, vendors, and leadership.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for major incidents and lead root-cause analysis, restoration, corrective action, and preventive improvement.
- Mentor Level I and II engineers, provide technical reviews, delegate work, and support development of team capabilities.
- Proactively identify emerging risks, technical debt, process gaps, and modernization opportunities, then develop and lead improvement plans.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required. 4-6 years of systems engineering or enterprise infrastructure experience
- Advanced expertise in Windows Server and/or Linux environments and enterprise virtualization platforms
- Experience with storage area networks, backup systems, and high-availability configurations
- Proficiency with automation tools and scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Ansible)
- Strong knowledge of systems performance tuning, capacity planning, and infrastructure security
- Microsoft MCSA/MCSE, VMware VCP, or equivalent certification required.
Compensation Range:
$93,675.00to
$140,513.00The anticipated base salary range represents the Company's good-faith estimate of the compensation it reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs.
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