Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer Remote Long Term The Cloud Engineer-Senior supports by designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications and services. This role is central to OIT's hybrid infrastructure strategy, ensuring reliable integration of cloud and on-premises environments while maintaining high availability and performance. The engineer drives automation-first operations using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices to improve consistency, speed, and operational resilience. The position enforces zero-trust and compliance requirements, supports migration and modernization initiatives, and provides technical leadership across cloud engineering activities. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required). Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Operations - Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with Azure as the primary platform and AWS support focused on integration with project-team-managed workloads and potential future expansion. - Build and maintain cloud networking, storage, compute, app services, virtualization, and containerized environments. - Ensure scalability, resiliency, and high availability through proactive performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational optimization. - Partner with operations teams to monitor production services, resolve incidents, and improve reliability across cloud platforms. Security, Identity, and Compliance - Implement and maintain cloud security configurations aligned with SEC security policies and zero-trust principles. - Engineer and support identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra Identity, RBAC, conditional access, and least-privilege models. - Enforce governance controls and policy compliance to support organizational and regulatory requirements, audit readiness, and risk reduction. - Drive patching, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration baselines across cloud-hosted infrastructure. Automation, IaC, and CI/CD Enablement - Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure. - Integrate infrastructure workflows with CI/CD pipelines to standardize deployments, reduce manual effort, and improve release quality. - Implement reusable IaC modules, scripting standards, and version-controlled operational artifacts. - Advance automated operating models to increase consistency, security, and scalability. Migration, Modernization, and Technical Leadership - Lead migration of workloads from legacy/on-premises platforms to modern Azure cloud and hybrid architectures with minimal disruption. - Optimize cloud resource utilization, cost, and service performance based on operational and mission priorities. - Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and cross-functional infrastructure teams. - Create and maintain architecture documentation, SOPs, and implementation guidance to support sustainable operations.