Senior IT Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer

• Design and implement scalable, secure, resilient, and supportable Azure infrastructure solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Engineer Azure compute, networking, storage, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, identity integration, and governance capabilities.
• Design Azure storage solutions using Blob Storage, Azure Files, managed disks, private connectivity, encryption, lifecycle management, replication, immutability, and appropriate redundancy models.
• Lead hybrid integration across Azure, Windows Server, Linux, enterprise storage, backup platforms, VMware, Active Directory, DNS, and network services.
• Diagnose complex issues involving performance, availability, storage latency, networking, authentication, replication, backup, and application dependencies.
• Design automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, Azure CLI, Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, JSON, YAML, source control, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, deployment patterns, configuration standards, and automated validation controls.
• Establish technical standards for availability, resiliency, security, monitoring, patching, backup, disaster recovery, capacity, and lifecycle management.
• Analyze Azure utilization, performance, and cost data and recommend rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, storage tiering, and architecture improvements.
• Lead medium to large infrastructure projects, including requirements, design, planning, scheduling, resource coordination, risk management, implementation, and operational transition.
• Create and review architecture diagrams, design documents, implementation plans, support models, risk assessments, test plans, and recovery procedures.
• Communicate complex concepts, options, risks, and recommendations to engineers, architects, project managers, application owners, vendors, and leadership.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for major incidents and lead root-cause analysis, restoration, corrective action, and preventive improvement.
• Mentor Level I and II engineers, provide technical reviews, delegate work, and support development of team capabilities.
• Proactively identify emerging risks, technical debt, process gaps, and modernization opportunities, then develop and lead improvement plans.

This position requires broad technical expertise, independent decision-making, mature project execution, strong written and verbal communication, and the ability to influence outcomes across teams., * Bachelor’s degree required. 4-6 years of systems engineering or enterprise infrastructure experience

• Advanced expertise in Windows Server and/or Linux environments and enterprise virtualization platforms
• Experience with storage area networks, backup systems, and high-availability configurations
• Proficiency with automation tools and scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Ansible)
• Strong knowledge of systems performance tuning, capacity planning, and infrastructure security
• Microsoft MCSA/MCSE, VMware VCP, or equivalent certification required.