Cloud Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Position Overview

Provide expert‑level design, implementation, enhancement, engineering, and operational support for enterprise infrastructure, with a strong focus on hybrid cloud (Azure and AWS), automation, and modern Dev Ops practices.

Help transition our on‑prem datacenter into a modern hybrid public/private cloud architecture with an emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management pipelines.

Help prepare, maintain, and transition internal infrastructure to SaaS platforms where needed. Lead initiatives to integrate and automate systems using Terraform, IaC, and scripting languages to ensure secure, scalable, and resilient solutions aligned with cloud adoption and well‑architected principles.

• Architect, implement, and operate core cloud foundations (networking, identity, security controls, and baseline services) in both clouds.
• Design and operate landing zone foundations and guardrails (identity, network topology, policy/controls, logging/monitoring, and account/subscription organization).
• Define and enforce governance and access controls (least privilege, role‑based access, and policy/controls), and keep guardrails consistent across environments.
• Integrate on‑prem infrastructure with cloud services for hybrid identity, networking, workload migration, and SaaS adoption.
• Optimize cost management, observability, and performance tuning for cloud‑hosted and hybrid workloads.
• Apply well‑architected practices to improve reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence.

• Design, develop, and maintain Terraform modules for provisioning and managing cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Implement IaC best practices to automate deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of resources across environments.
• Build reusable templates and automation pipelines for consistent, scalable infrastructure delivery.
• Enforce infrastructure changes through code review and CI/CD pipelines to reduce drift and improve auditability.
• Version and validate Terraform modules with automated checks and clear change documentation to support safe reuse.

• Build and maintain configuration management pipelines and baselines for Linux and Windows (example tooling: Ansible, DSC, or equivalent).
• Automate routine operations, reporting, and remediation using scripting, configuration‑as‑code patterns, and cloud‑native tooling.
• Standardize platform build patterns (golden images, baseline hardening, repeatable environment builds) across cloud and on‑prem.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts in Python and Power Shell for system administration, monitoring, and integration tasks.
• Build operational automation to reduce toil and improve reliability (health checks, drift detection, remediation, and compliance reporting).

• Build, consume, and integrate REST APIs for automation, monitoring, and third‑party service integration.
• Enable interoperability between cloud platforms, identity providers, and enterprise applications.

• Provide expert‑level administration for ADLDS/LDAP, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra  (Azure AD), Microsoft Certificate Authority, IAM integrations, and hybrid identity patterns.
• Oversee administration and performance of Linux/Unix (RHEL/Oracle Linux preferred) and Microsoft Windows systems, both on‑premises and in the cloud.
• Operate and modernize on‑prem compute platforms (VMware and OLVM/KVM) and integrate them into hybrid cloud patterns.
• Partner across storage and backup platforms to ensure backup, recovery, immutability, and resilience controls align to platform standards.
• Design, establish, and maintain technical standards and security policies for core infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Engineer holistic certificate management systems for on‑premises and hybrid cloud environments.

• Triage and remediate P1/P2 incidents, document work in ITSM tooling, and drive restoration steps and follow‑through.
• Own and drive root cause analysis…