Senior DevOps Engineer; Multi-Cloud Platform Engineering

Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Work Location:

Remote with periodic on-site presence at CLIENT System Administration, Albany, NY as needed

Anticipated Duration:
Initial engagement of 12 months, with option to extend based on program needs and performance

• 7 or more years of experience in Dev Ops, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles, with demonstrated work in enterprise or higher education environments
• Hands‑on experience across at least two of the three primary platforms in scope: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, and managed service configurations
• Demonstrated experience with cloud cost governance, including spend visibility tooling, tagging and attribution practices, and optimization across cloud provider environments
• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes, and with infrastructure‑as‑code tooling such as Terraform or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience establishing CI/CD pipelines, release management practices, and change control processes in production environments
• Experience defining and documenting operational models including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and service handoff procedures
• Familiarity with integration patterns for enterprise systems including identity providers, student information systems, and financial platforms
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to translate technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders
• Experience working in multi‑vendor, multi‑partner delivery environments with shared operational responsibility

• Experience in higher education IT or similarly federated, multi‑institutional technology environments
• Familiarity with Client technology procurement and compliance requirements, including OSC and ITS standards
• Experience supporting AI or machine learning platform infrastructure, particularly on Google Cloud Platform
• Experience supporting cloud adoption programs across distributed or decentralized organizational structures
• Experience supporting security operations, log management, or SOC environments
• Relevant cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent)
• Experience with SaaS platform evaluation and vendor technical due diligence

• Evaluate and document production architecture decisions across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure environments, ensuring designs are appropriate for intended scale and consistent with CLIENT standards
• Translate architectural discussions into clear, supportable production models with documented configuration, dependency, and operational assumptions
• Assess infrastructure proposals from vendors and implementation partners, identifying gaps in supportability, scalability, or security posture before CLIENT acceptance
• Support cloud migration efforts, ensuring workloads are optimized for cloud‑native operation rather than replicated from on‑premises patterns

• Establish and maintain cost visibility practices across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure environments, including tagging standards, budget alerting, and spend attribution
• Identify optimization opportunities in active cloud environments, including right‑sizing, reserved capacity planning, and elimination of idle or underutilized resources
• Support the development of cloud governance frameworks that allow campus adoption to scale without creating uncontrolled spend or ungoverned configurations

• Define and document operating models for supported initiatives, including monitoring strategy, routine maintenance procedures, backup and retention expectations, and escalation paths
• Establish incident response baselines appropriate to the sensitivity and criticality of each system
• Develop operational runbooks and handoff documentation that enable CLIENT staff to sustain services after initial deployment

• Define consistent integration patterns for initiatives connecting to campus and enterprise systems,…