Sr. Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer

Arlington, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 120000 - 135000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

This is a hybrid role. The selected candidate will work in the Arlington VA office three days per week (Tuesday-Thursday).

Summary

The Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer is a key technical leader responsible for designing building and operating secure scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions across hybrid and cloud environments. This role ensures the stability performance and modernization of enterprise systems while advancing the organizations cloud-first strategy. As a subject matter expert the Senior Engineer will lead complex migration initiatives implement automation and DevOps practices and enforce security and compliance frameworks. This individual will collaborate with IT leadership developers and business stakeholders to deliver high-value solutions mentor junior team members and establish standards and best practices that drive operational excellence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Architect design and implement enterprise infrastructure solutions across on-premises hybrid and cloud platforms (with a focus on Microsoft Azure).
Lead cloud migration initiatives including workload assessments planning execution and optimization of applications and infrastructure.
Act as a subject matter expert in cloud services virtualization networking storage and identity management providing guidance across the IT organization.
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation frameworks (Terraform PowerShell Python ARM/Bicep templates) to streamline provisioning monitoring and operations.
Drive adoption of DevOps and CI/CD practices partnering with development teams to ensure secure and efficient application deployment pipelines.
Ensure compliance with security and governance policies including implementation of identity and access management encryption patching and vulnerability management.
Proactively monitor analyze and optimize system performance capacity and availability addressing issues before they impact business operations.
Establish and maintain disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity strategies ensuring readiness and resiliency of critical services.
Mentor and coach junior staff promoting knowledge sharing skills development and adherence to infrastructure best practices.
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including architectural diagrams operational runbooks and standard operating procedures.

Education Skills and Qualifications

Bachelors degree or equivalent with 7 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering including at least 3 years designing and managing cloud-based solutions.
Advanced expertise in Microsoft Azure (IaaS PaaS networking storage identity governance).
Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMware Hyper-V) and hybrid integration models.
Proficiency in automation and scripting (PowerShell Python Terraform ARM/Bicep or similar).
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps tooling and infrastructure integration with application development.
In-depth understanding of enterprise security frameworks including IAM conditional access Zero Trust and regulatory compliance requirements.
Proven ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure performance and networking issues.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead technical teams setting standards for quality reliability and innovation.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

Experience with hybrid cloud architecture and multi-cloud strategies.
Exposure to containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes AKS).
Familiarity with ITIL/ITSM frameworks for change incident and problem management.
Certifications such as:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
- CompTIA Security or equivalent security certification

This position description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be required to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

The salary/hourly range for this position is $120000-$135000 plus bonus potential. Compensation is based on several factors including but not limited to education work experience certifications etc.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

This is a hybrid role. The selected candidate will work in the Arlington VA office three days per week (Tuesday-Thursday).SummaryThe Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer is a key technical leader responsible for designing building and operating secure scalable and resilient infrastructure solution...

This is a hybrid role. The selected candidate will work in the Arlington VA office three days per week (Tuesday-Thursday).

Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Architect design and implement enterprise infrastructure solutions across on-premises hybrid and cloud platforms (with a focus on Microsoft Azure).
Lead cloud migration initiatives including workload assessments planning execution and optimization of applications and infrastructure.
Act as a subject matter expert in cloud services virtualization networking storage and identity management providing guidance across the IT organization.
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation frameworks (Terraform PowerShell Python ARM/Bicep templates) to streamline provisioning monitoring and operations.
Drive adoption of DevOps and CI/CD practices partnering with development teams to ensure secure and efficient application deployment pipelines.
Ensure compliance with security and governance policies including implementation of identity and access management encryption patching and vulnerability management.
Proactively monitor analyze and optimize system performance capacity and availability addressing issues before they impact business operations.
Establish and maintain disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity strategies ensuring readiness and resiliency of critical services.
Mentor and coach junior staff promoting knowledge sharing skills development and adherence to infrastructure best practices.
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including architectural diagrams operational runbooks and standard operating procedures.

Education Skills and Qualifications

Bachelors degree or equivalent with 7 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering including at least 3 years designing and managing cloud-based solutions.
Advanced expertise in Microsoft Azure (IaaS PaaS networking storage identity governance).
Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMware Hyper-V) and hybrid integration models.
Proficiency in automation and scripting (PowerShell Python Terraform ARM/Bicep or similar).
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps tooling and infrastructure integration with application development.
In-depth understanding of enterprise security frameworks including IAM conditional access Zero Trust and regulatory compliance requirements.
Proven ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure performance and networking issues.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead technical teams setting standards for quality reliability and innovation.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

Experience with hybrid cloud architecture and multi-cloud strategies.
Exposure to containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes AKS).
Familiarity with ITIL/ITSM frameworks for change incident and problem management.
Certifications such as:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
- CompTIA Security or equivalent security certification

The salary/hourly range for this position is $120000-$135000 plus bonus potential. Compensation is based on several factors including but not limited to education work experience certifications etc.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills

Jenkins
Ruby
Python
Active Directory
Cloud
PowerShell
Windows
AWS
Linux
SAN
Java
Troubleshoot
Backup
Puppet
hardware

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