Sr. Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer

Louisville, United States | Posted on 08/26/2026

Compass Pointe Consulting is seeking a highly experienced Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Modernization Engineer to lead the support, stabilization, and modernization of a complex hybrid infrastructure environment.

This position combines hands-on infrastructure operations with strategic engineering leadership. The successful candidate will assume technical ownership of a primarily Linux-based virtualized environment, including legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, while developing and executing modernization strategies that support cloud adoption, automation, improved security, and long-term reliability.

The Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Modernization Engineer will also serve as a senior technical escalation point and mentor junior engineering staff.

• Administer, maintain, and troubleshoot legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
• Manage and optimize VMware or comparable enterprise virtualization platforms.
• Oversee enterprise backup, retention, restoration, and disaster recovery operations.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and system health.
• Resolve complex infrastructure issues across Linux, Windows, virtualization, storage, and backup environments.

• Administer Microsoft Windows Server and Active Directory environments.
• Support DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, identity management, and access controls.
• Maintain interoperability and authentication between Linux and Windows systems.
• Troubleshoot issues affecting hybrid infrastructure services and user access.

• Assess aging infrastructure and identify modernization opportunities, risks, and technical dependencies.
• Develop practical roadmaps for migrating legacy systems to modern, cloud-capable, or hybrid platforms.
• Support cloud adoption initiatives involving AWS, Microsoft Azure, or comparable platforms.
• Recommend architectural, security, automation, and operational improvements that reduce technical debt.
• Evaluate modernization options while maintaining the availability and stability of critical systems.

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges.
• Establish engineering standards, operational procedures, and infrastructure best practices.
• Create and maintain accurate system documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Mentor junior engineers and technical support personnel.
• Communicate technical risks, recommendations, and modernization priorities to both technical and business stakeholders.

• Support vulnerability remediation, infrastructure hardening, patching, and configuration management.
• Validate backup integrity and periodically test restoration and disaster recovery processes.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective-action planning.
• Help ensure infrastructure complies with applicable security, availability, and operational requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10-12 years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the support and modernization of legacy Linux environments.
• Experience managing VMware virtualization platforms or comparable enterprise virtualization technologies.
• Experience supporting enterprise backup, retention, restoration, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy.
• Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure modernization, data center transformation, or cloud migration initiatives.
• Advanced systems analysis, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior team members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Automation and scripting experience using Bash, Power Shell, Ansible, Python, or similar technologies.
• Experience…