Cloud Infrastructure Engineer II

Astreya•Boulder, CO

About The Position

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer II is a hands-on, mid-level role supporting cloud and virtualized infrastructure. Working within the team's architecture and standards, the engineer builds and maintains cloud environments, improves deployment reliability through infrastructure-as-code and automation, administers Linux and Windows systems, and implements identity and access controls. The role supports centralized security-application infrastructure in GCP and virtualized on-premises and cloud-hosted environments. It also provides implementation-tier support to operations and sustainment teams and contributes to runbooks, configuration records, and Technical Design Documentation.

Requirements

5–8 years of hands-on experience in cloud and enterprise infrastructure engineering, with demonstrated production-environment delivery.
Working proficiency in GCP core services: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC, and IAM, as well as cloud-native high-availability patterns.
Practical Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform and Ansible; these are mandatory.
Scripting experience with Python, Bash, and PowerShell; familiarity with Puppet and Git.
Linux and Windows enterprise operating-system administration; virtualization experience with VMware or Hyper-V; experience with Dell iDRAC and DellOME for hardware management.
Ability to provision IAM across operating systems and cloud, including Active Directory, Google IAM, and RBAC, while enforcing least privilege.
Technical documentation skills, including runbooks and TDD contributions.
Willingness to work business hours with on-call escalation in a global support model.
Required certification: GCP Professional Cloud Architect or GCP Associate Cloud Engineer.

Nice To Haves

HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.
Red Hat RHCE certification.
ITIL Foundation certification.

Responsibilities

Implement and configure GCP environments, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage with retention policies, and VPC networking, for centralized security applications.
Build and maintain virtualized on-premises and cloud-hosted infrastructure.
Deploy high-availability mechanisms, failover, clustering, and load balancing, and validate redundancy behavior after implementation.
Author and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Ansible; contribute to orchestration and configuration management using Puppet, Git, and PowerShell.
Automate routine provisioning and sustainment tasks with Python and Bash to reduce manual effort and configuration drift.
Provision and administer infrastructure IAM across operating systems, enforcing least-privilege and least-service models.
Configure tiered storage and database resources in line with retention, uptime, and auditability requirements.
Provide implementation-tier support for escalations from operations and sustainment teams; escalate design-level issues to L3 with detailed handover notes.
Produce and maintain runbooks, configuration records, and Technical Design Documentation artifacts.

Benefits

Medical insurance through UHC (PPO, HSA, and Surest options) or Kaiser (HMO option for California employees only).
Dental insurance through UHC Nationwide.
Vision insurance through UHC.
Flexible Spending Account for health and dependent care.
Pre-tax commuter benefit for parking and transit, depending on location.
Continuing education and professional development through platforms such as Udemy and Coursera.
Corporate wellness program provided by Goomi Group.
Employee Assistance Program.
Wellness Days.
401(k) plan.
Basic and supplemental life insurance.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Critical illness, critical hospital, and voluntary accident insurance.
Tuition reimbursement, available six months after the start date and capped.
Paid Time Off, accrued and prorated, up to 120 hours annually.
Paid holidays.
Other statutory leaves, paid time, or ancillary benefits required by state and federal law.