Senior IT Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

Designs, implements, automates, and optimizes secure, resilient Azure and hybrid infrastructure, providing advanced support and serving as an escalation point for complex incidents. The role leads medium to large infrastructure projects, establishes technical standards, and integrates Azure services with Windows Server, Linux, VMware, enterprise storage, and network services. It also develops infrastructure-as-code and automation using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI, Bicep, and Terraform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 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, such as PowerShell or Ansible.
• Strong knowledge of systems performance tuning, capacity planning, and infrastructure security.
• Microsoft MCSA or MCSE, VMware VCP, or equivalent certification.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, resilient Azure infrastructure solutions.
• Engineer Azure compute, networking, storage, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, identity integration, and governance.
• Design Azure storage solutions with appropriate connectivity, encryption, lifecycle management, replication, immutability, and redundancy.
• Integrate Azure with Windows Server, Linux, enterprise storage, backup platforms, VMware, Active Directory, DNS, and network services.
• Diagnose complex performance, availability, storage, networking, authentication, replication, backup, and application dependency issues.
• Develop infrastructure automation, reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, deployment patterns, configuration standards, and validation controls.
• Establish standards for resiliency, security, monitoring, patching, backup, disaster recovery, capacity, and lifecycle management.
• Analyze Azure utilization, performance, and costs; recommend rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, storage tiering, and architecture improvements.
• Lead infrastructure projects from requirements and planning through implementation and operational transition.
• Create and review architecture diagrams, design documents, implementation plans, support models, risk assessments, test plans, and recovery procedures.
• Communicate technical concepts, options, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Lead major incident escalation, restoration, root-cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Mentor engineers, review technical work, delegate tasks, and support team development.
• Identify technical risks, debt, process gaps, and modernization opportunities; lead improvement plans.

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