Cloud Infrastructure Systems Engineer

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEER

(Draper, On-Site)

Upbound Group, Inc. (effective February 27, 2023: NASDAQ: UPBD) is an omni-channel platform company committed to elevating financial opportunity for all through innovative, inclusive, and technology-driven financial solutions that address the evolving needs and aspirations of consumers. The Company’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Acima,
Rent-A-Center, and Brigit that facilitate consumer transactions across a wide range of store-based and digital retail channels, including over 2,400 company branded retail units across the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Upbound Group, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

As part of a team, design, build, and operate enterprise infrastructure end to end, with a strong focus on hybrid cloud (Azure and AWS), automation, and modern Platform Engineering 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.

• Design, build, and operate core cloud foundations and landing zones including networking, identity, security guardrails, logging/monitoring, and governance across Azure and AWS, integrated with on-prem computing, storage, and backup infrastructure (private cloud).
• Apply well-architected and least-privilege practices; optimize cost, observability, and performance for hybrid workloads.

• Own Infrastructure Terraform: build and maintain reusable modules and enforce changes through code review and CI/CD to reduce drift for our cloud and on-premises datacenter infrastructures.

• Work with our Platform Engineering teams to ensure standards and governance are aligned.
• Automate configuration management and operations across Linux and Windows using Python, Power Shell, and tooling such as Ansible.

• Administer and engineer identity and certificate systems such as Entra , Active Directory, LDAP, IAM, and enterprise certificate management as a system.
• Operate and modernize on-prem compute (VMware, OLVM/KVM) and core Windows/Linux systems into hybrid IaC patterns.

• Triage P1/P2 incidents, drive root cause analysis to closure, and maintain runbooks and SOPs.
• Lead infrastructure projects, partner cross-functionally, and mentor engineers.
• Guide and develop operations teams, building their skills and confidence across the hybrid platform.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent work experience).
• 7+ years in systems or platform engineering, including enterprise-scale public cloud experience (Azure and AWS).
• Solid expertise in Terraform and IaC best practices.
• Strong configuration management and automation experience (Linux and Windows).
• Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Power Shell.
• On-prem systems engineering depth, including VMware and KVM-style platforms.
• Proven delivery: leads infrastructure projects, drives incidents and RCAs to closure, and works as a low-ego team player.

• Certifications (a plus, not required):
  
  Azure (AZ-305 Solutions Architect or AZ-104 Administrator) and/orAWS (Solutions Architect or Sys Ops Administrator);
  Hashi Corp Terraform Associate (Professional a strong plus).
• Strong hands‑on experience with storage, SAN, backup solutions, and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience with VMware and OLVM/KVM platforms in production environments.
• Experience managing and monitoring Kubernetes and Docker runtimes.
• Experience migrating services to SaaS platforms and operating hybrid integration patterns.
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