Senior Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Position Summary:

SmartLight Analytics is building a modern automation-first infrastructure platform to support secure healthcare analytics at scale.

We are hiring a Senior Infrastructure Automation & Security Engineer to take ownership of our hybrid environment spanning Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure. This is a hands-on senior engineering role responsible for automation security hardening reliability and compliance alignment across production systems operating under SOC 2 and HIPAA.

This role is a platform engineering role focused on reducing operational friction strengthening security posture and building repeatable automated infrastructure.

If you enjoy modernizing environments eliminating manual work and designing secure systems in regulated industries this role offers meaningful ownership and impact.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

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Scope of Ownership

Hybrid Infrastructure Engineering

Own Hyper-V lifecycle management and integration with Azure workloads

Optimize VM performance storage and resource allocation

Establish and enforce infrastructure configuration standards

Reduce configuration drift across environments

Design and operate Azure workloads across compute networking identity and security

Increase operational visibility and control traceability across the hybrid platform

Automation at Scale

Architect Python and PowerShell automation across infrastructure workflows

Replace manual provisioning with API-driven orchestration

Integrate Azure Microsoft Graph and security tooling APIs

Build repeatable infrastructure validation and compliance checks

Security Engineering

Harden systems to CIS and Microsoft security benchmarks

Design logging and monitoring strategies aligned to control objectives

Translate SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements into enforceable engineering controls

Implement continuous control validation rather than audit-period preparation

Reliability & Risk Reduction

Improve backup architecture and validate restore capabilities

Increase platform resilience and reduce single points of failure

Establish measurable infrastructure standards and SLO-driven improvements

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What Success Looks Like

Within 12 months:

Manual operational tasks materially reduced through automation

Azure governance model standardized and documented

Hybrid platform hardened with measurable reduction in configuration drift

Continuous compliance validation integrated into operations

Reduced MSP dependency for engineering-level decisions

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Required Skills and Qualifications:

7 years in infrastructure engineering or platform engineering

Deep Azure experience across networking identity and security

Strong Windows Server expertise (Active Directory DNS Group Policy)

Strong Hyper-V or enterprise virtualization experience

Advanced PowerShell engineering

Production-grade Python automation experience

Experience operating within regulated environments (SOC 2 HIPAA or similar)

Preferred Qualifications:

SQL Server infrastructure support

Defender for Endpoint or similar EDR platforms

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps)

Infrastructure as Code exposure (Terraform or equivalent)