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Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: The Mutual Group
Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cloud Computing, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 100000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Join a growing Infrastructure team to help design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure cloud environments that power our organization’s operations. As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will also lead governance and oversight of our Cloud Infrastructure Managed Services (CIMS) provider —ensuring that contracted services are delivered reliably, securely, and cost-effectively in alignment with the organization’s cloud strategy. This role blends deep cloud engineering with operational excellence, incident leadership, and vendor performance management.

Work

Arrangement
  • Employees who live within 30 miles of the TMG home office are expected to follow a hybrid or in‑office schedule. The initial training period may require additional in‑office days.
Accountabilities Cloud Engineering & Platform Operations
  • Design & deliver cloud foundations including account/subscription setup, networking, access controls, guardrails, and secure, scalable architecture patterns across AWS and Azure.
  • Implement automation through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD pipelines to provision, update, and maintain environments.
  • Run reliable services by monitoring system health, performance, logs, and security events, responding to incidents, and driving root‑cause analysis.
  • Support modernization & migrations, including containerization, serverless adoption, and transition to resilient multi‑AZ/region patterns.
Vendor Governance & Managed Services Oversight
  • Serve as the primary technical day‑to‑day interface with the Cloud Infrastructure Managed Services (CIMS) provider supporting our AWS and Azure environments.
  • Oversee adherence to SOW/MSA obligations, including scope, SLAs, security tasks, DR drills, ticket concurrency limits, escalation matrix steps, cost reporting, and monthly governance deliverables.
  • Review and validate supplier‑delivered RCAs, ensuring corrective actions are completed and prevention steps are implemented.
  • Review and approve vendor‑initiated changes to ensure alignment with internal standards.
  • Participate in bi‑weekly governance meetings, contributing to KPI reviews, risk tracking, cost insights, and optimization recommendations.
Incident & Problem Management
  • Lead technical response for cloud‑related Severity 1 & 2 incidents, coordinating with the supplier and internal teams to restore service quickly.
  • Ensure incidents meet response and resolution SLAs and elevate via the SOW’s escalation matrix when needed.
  • Drive problem management by identifying recurring patterns and implementing remediation with the supplier.
Security, Identity & Compliance
  • Apply and enforce cloud security baselines, including MFA, PAM, RBAC, encryption, logging, monitoring, and identity governance.
  • Validate periodic vulnerability assessments and cloud security scoring delivered by the supplier; ensure remediation progress.
  • Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure cloud environments adhere to data‑protection requirements.
  • Review monthly cloud consumption and cost reports delivered by the supplier; validate accuracy of consumption‑based CIMS billing tiers.
  • Identify and action cost optimization opportunities including rightsizing, scheduling, storage optimization, and cleanup activities.
  • Enforce tagging and cost‑allocation standards for consistent reporting and chargeback readiness.
Documentation, Standards & Knowledge Sharing
  • Maintain up‑to‑date runbooks, diagrams, and SOPs; ensure supplier documentation meets internal expectations.
  • Share best practices and mentor teammates in modern cloud practices, automation, and operational excellence.
Qualifications
  • 8+ years in infrastructure/operations/Dev Ops/SRE roles, with 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering.
  • Hands‑on experience running production workloads in AWS and/or Azure.
  • Strong Infrastructure‑as‑Code skills (Terraform or equivalent) and experience with CI/CD automation.
  • Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM/RBAC, security, and cost management.
  • Experience working with or overseeing a cloud managed services provider, including ticket management, SLA interpretation, and escalation processes.
  • Strong troubleshooting and incident‑response experience,…
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