Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Position Title: IT Applications Solution Architect (Senior) / Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Contract Duration: 12 Months of contact

Location: Washington, DC

Role Summary

Seeking a senior cloud infrastructure engineer and solution architect to lead the design, implementation, automation, and operational management of enterprise cloud infrastructure. This role will drive cloud architecture decisions, Infrastructure as Code adoption, security best practices, and operational excellence across AWS-primary and Azure-secondary environments. The ideal candidate will have broad IT experience, strong hands-on cloud expertise, and the ability to mentor junior engineers and collaborate across technical teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, automation, and operational management of enterprise cloud infrastructure, primarily AWS with secondary Azure support.
• Drive cloud architecture decisions, IaC adoption, security best practices, and operational excellence.
• Design, architect, and implement scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Build and enhance cloud automation for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and operational workflows.
• Establish cloud governance, security standards, and operational best practices.
• Design and implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.
• Design and create reusable cloud platform templates and landing zones.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, networking, and application integration issues.
• Mentor junior cloud engineers and provide technical leadership across cloud projects.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Networking, and Application teams.
• Take ownership of issues with urgency and sound judgment to resolve within service levels.

Required Qualifications

• At least 7 years of IT experience with broad knowledge across architecture, infrastructure setup and management, operating systems, databases, applications, networking, and cloud implementations.
• At least 5+ years of strong hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure components: server, storage, network, security, data, and applications, to deliver end-to-end AWS cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Strong expertise in AWS services, including EC2, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SSM, RDS, Lambda, and containers such as ECS and EKS.
• Working knowledge of Azure services, including Virtual Machines, VNETs, Azure Storage, IAM, and Backup.
• Strong automation skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Experience with Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong networking knowledge, including DNS, TCP/IP, VPN, firewalls, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Experience with cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Knowledge of container platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to work independently and within an integrated team environment; must be self-motivated.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred / Additional Knowledge

• Experience designing reusable cloud platform templates and landing zones.
• Experience establishing cloud governance and security standards.
• Experience with disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity design.
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring junior cloud engineers.