Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

TRAC Intermodal•Princeton, NJ

1d•$150,000 - $175,000

About The Position

The Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, operating, optimizing, securing, and maintaining the resiliency of the company's Microsoft Azure and hybrid infrastructure environment. The role provides hands-on engineering support across Azure, identity, Windows infrastructure, virtualization, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, and infrastructure services that support business applications. It partners with DevOps, Information Security, Application Development, Application Support, PPMO, and managed-service providers. The engineer supports Azure and hybrid infrastructure operations, cloud cost management, Windows and identity services, virtualization modernization, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, reliability, security, compliance, and project delivery. The position also provides senior escalation support, participates in architecture and technical design reviews, and produces infrastructure documentation and recovery procedures.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressive infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering experience.
At least 7 years of hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering or administration experience.
Advanced knowledge of Windows Server and enterprise Microsoft infrastructure.
Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD and hybrid identity.
Experience supporting enterprise backup and recovery solutions; Rubrik is ideal.
Experience with VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, Azure virtualization, or comparable platforms.
Practical experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or similar observability platforms.
Working knowledge of DNS, networking, firewalls, load balancing, certificates, storage, and authentication.
Experience supporting disaster recovery and business-continuity exercises.
Experience with ITSM practices and platforms such as ServiceNow or Jira.
Strong troubleshooting skills across multi-tier cloud and hybrid environments.
Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
Strong knowledge of e-Discovery.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Registry, and cloud-native application infrastructure.
Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or comparable tooling.
PowerShell scripting and infrastructure automation experience.
Experience with cloud financial management or FinOps practices.
Linux administration experience.
Experience supporting enterprise audit, ITGC, and cybersecurity requirements.
Familiarity with GitHub-based infrastructure or DevOps workflows.
One or more of the following certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate; Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert; HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate; Nutanix, Rubrik, VMware, or relevant Microsoft security certification.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, administer, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure and cloud services.
Manage Azure subscriptions, resource groups, networking, compute, storage, identity integration, monitoring, and related platform services.
Monitor Azure service health and coordinate responses to platform incidents and degradation.
Establish and maintain cloud engineering standards for availability, performance, scalability, security, and supportability.
Support Azure-hosted and AKS-based workloads used by application and DevOps teams.
Review Azure consumption, run rates, forecasts, budgets, and resource utilization; identify cost anomalies and optimization opportunities and coordinate remediation with technical owners.
Review new infrastructure builds for technical requirements and cost efficiency, and develop proactive monitoring and reporting for cloud spend.
Engineer and support enterprise Windows Server and hybrid infrastructure services.
Administer Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD infrastructure capabilities and integrations, and support on-premises Active Directory, DNS, authentication, certificates, service accounts, and related enterprise services.
Troubleshoot complex cloud and on-premises infrastructure problems and provide senior-level escalation support to internal IT teams and managed service providers.
Support modernization and reduction of legacy on-premises infrastructure; evaluate and implement virtualization technologies and migration strategies, including the transition away from legacy VMware dependencies where appropriate.
Support Nutanix or comparable virtualization and hyperconverged platforms in accordance with the approved infrastructure architecture.
Administer and support enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including Rubrik; maintain backup policies, monitor backup health, investigate failures, and support data-restoration requests.
Contribute to disaster recovery planning, testing, documentation, and remediation; participate in production DR exercises and maintain infrastructure recovery procedures.
Develop documentation and knowledge sufficient to eliminate single-person dependencies for critical recovery functions.
Implement and maintain proactive infrastructure and application-platform monitoring, including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerting, capacity management, and infrastructure observability.
Investigate service degradation, performance issues, unusual consumption patterns, and platform incidents; lead root-cause analysis and preventative remediation.
Improve availability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through automation and standardization.
Partner with Information Security on secure infrastructure configurations and vulnerability remediation; support audits and provide infrastructure evidence as required.
Remediate security and audit findings within agreed timelines and follow privileged-access, change-management, configuration-management, and infrastructure-security standards.
Maintain accurate infrastructure and operational documentation.
Provide infrastructure engineering support for PPMO-led business and technology initiatives; develop technical requirements, estimates, implementation plans, and infrastructure designs.
Deliver assigned project work on schedule and within approved budget; coordinate infrastructure dependencies with application, DevOps, security, vendor, and managed-service teams.
Participate in architecture and technical design reviews.