Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design build and support enterprise environments with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure IaaS and VMware platforms. This role is responsible for delivering scalable secure and highly available infrastructure solutions across hybrid environments driving cloud adoption and optimizing virtualization platforms. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Azure infrastructure services and VMware technologies with a proven ability to modernize on-premises environments and integrate them with cloud-based solutions. Experience with enterprise VDI solutions including Citrix is considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Engineering
Design implement and maintain enterprise Microsoft and VMware infrastructure supporting business-critical applications.
Engineer hybrid environments integrating on-premises data centers with Microsoft Azure and VMware cloud/virtualization platforms.
Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives including cloud migrations VMware and Hyper-V virtualization upgrades platform consolidation and workload migrations.
Develop and maintain infrastructure standards reference architectures system documentation and service roadmaps across Microsoft and VMware ecosystems.
Ensure systems meet performance reliability security and compliance standards.
Cloud Platform Engineering (Azure)
Deploy and manage Azure infrastructure including Virtual Machines VM Scale Sets Virtual Networks Storage Backup and Site Recovery.
Utilize Azure Arc for hybrid infrastructure management.
Manage Azure governance policies cost management and security best practices.
Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions in Azure.
Automation: Implement Infrastructure as Code using Bicep ARM templates or Desired State Configuration (DSC).
Microsoft Server & Core Services
Administer and optimize Windows Server environments including configuration patching and lifecycle management.
Design and manage enterprise identity and directory services using Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
Manage hybrid identity integration with Microsoft Entra Connect.
Maintain Group Policy architecture DNS DHCP domain trusts multi-domain environments and certificate services (PKI).
Administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions using Commvault including backup configuration policy management monitoring troubleshooting and performing data recovery
Automation: develop automation using PowerShell for system provisioning configuration patching and monitoring.
Monitoring Security & Compliance
Manage enterprise monitoring and alerting across systems and cloud services (SolarWinds Azure Monitor).
Conduct system health checks performance optimization and capacity planning.
Implement system hardening vulnerability remediation and identity protection.
Virtualization & End-User Computing
Design deploy and support enterprise virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) across on-premises and cloud platforms.
Deliver and manage Windows desktop environments including persistent and non-persistent (multi-session) workloads.
Support core VDI infrastructure components such as brokering provisioning access gateways and performance optimization tools.
Leadership & Collaboration
Team player with strong collaboration and communications skills
Must possess strong interpersonal skills with technical and non-technical personnel
Must be a self-starter: ability to work independently without close supervision
Other skills:
Must demonstrate a positive can-do attitude a strong desire to learn strong customer service skills reliability proven problem-solving skills the ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic environment open to new ideas flexibility to apply new concepts and technologies and the ability to work a flexible work schedule with off hours work as needed.
Provide technical guidance mentorship and knowledge transfer to other engineers and stakeholders.
Lead or participate in architecture reviews infrastructure planning and project implementation.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including networking security DevOps application development and cybersecurity.
Act as a service owner for key infrastructure platforms documenting current state future state and roadmaps.
Lead root cause analysis for major incidents and implement preventive solutions.

Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
10 years of enterprise systems engineering experience.
Hands-on experience with:
o VMware infrastructure
o Windows Server administration
o Microsoft Azure infrastructure
o Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID / hybrid identity
o Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (a plus)
Experience with automation (PowerShell Infrastructure as Code) and CI/CD pipelines.
Proven ability to design deploy and manage hybrid cloud environments.
Strong troubleshooting problem-solving and system architecture skills.
Excellent communication collaboration and project management skills.

Key Technologies
Microsoft Azure
VMware
Windows Server
Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Citrix Cloud / Azure Virtual Desktop
PowerShell
Azure Automation / Azure DevOps

Need to be hands-on engineers not too cloud network or security focused