Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect (Azure & GCP)

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc•Denver, CO

9d•$170,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect is a hands-on engineering and architecture role responsible for the day-to-day administration, optimization, monitoring, security, and evolution of Advanced Energy’s cloud platforms. The role focuses primarily on Microsoft Azure while also supporting Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The architect manages infrastructure operations, provisioning, patching, automation, governance, cost optimization, and platform reliability, and contributes to cloud architecture and modernization initiatives. The position establishes secure, scalable, highly available Azure and GCP architecture standards; leads migration and modernization work; and provides architectural governance across the organization. It also operates production cloud environments, supports incident response, maintains platform security and resilience, and advances automation and cloud-native practices. As a senior technical contributor and trusted advisor, the architect collaborates with executive stakeholders and leads architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical workshops.

Requirements

Deep hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure administration, engineering, networking, storage, security, and operations.
Hands-on expertise and operational experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Strong experience managing cloud infrastructure in production environments.
Experience with monitoring, logging, patching, provisioning, deprovisioning, and cloud operations.
Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, Bicep, ARM, and automation frameworks.
Knowledge of Azure governance, IAM, security controls, compliance, and FinOps practices.
Strong troubleshooting and operational support skills.
AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate certification.
AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional, or Architect certification.
12 or more years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform operations experience.
Proven experience operating and maintaining cloud infrastructure at scale.
10 or more years of hands-on Azure engineering and administration experience.
5 or more years of hands-on GCP engineering and administration experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

AZ-400 DevOps Engineer certification.
AZ-500 Security Engineer certification.
Azure certifications such as AZ-303, AZ-304, or AZ-500.

Responsibilities

Define enterprise architecture standards for secure, scalable, and highly available Azure and GCP solutions.
Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including hybrid and cloud-native architectures.
Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and establish enterprise architectural patterns, standards, governance, and operating models.
Conduct architecture reviews and establish cloud standards and best practices.
Influence strategic technology investment decisions and architecture decisions affecting multiple business functions and global operations.
Drive enterprise-wide adoption of cloud-native platforms and modernization practices.
Administer and support Azure and GCP cloud environments.
Monitor cloud health, availability, performance, and capacity.
Manage provisioning, deprovisioning, patching, lifecycle management, and platform maintenance.
Implement and maintain cloud networking, storage, compute, security, and identity services.
Troubleshoot incidents and drive root-cause resolution, including production outage remediation.
Manage Azure subscriptions, management groups, and resource organization.
Manage cloud monitoring using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and cloud-native monitoring tools.
Perform monthly cloud patching and vulnerability remediation.
Manage backup, disaster recovery, and cloud resiliency services.
Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or similar tools.
Support CI/CD pipelines and automation initiatives.
Implement governance, compliance, patching, vulnerability remediation, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Automate operational procedures using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python, or similar scripting tools.
Maintain cloud security posture and remediation activities.
Support identity and access management through Entra ID and GCP IAM.
Optimize performance, availability, utilization, and cloud spend across Azure and GCP.
Create operational dashboards and reporting for performance, capacity, and utilization monitoring.
Support business continuity and disaster recovery testing.
Participate in on-call support and operational escalations as needed.
Partner with executive stakeholders to align cloud investments with business strategy and provide guidance on technology risk, scalability, and operational resilience.
Influence global technology decisions and executive leadership on cloud strategy, risk management, and technology investment priorities.
Lead enterprise architecture reviews for business-critical initiatives.
Act as the company’s senior subject matter expert and trusted advisor for cloud architecture, platform strategy, modernization, and Azure and GCP implementation.
Lead design reviews, technical workshops, and architecture discussions.