Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

ZipStaff•Washington, DC

17h•Onsite

About The Position

ZipStaff is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to serve as a key technical lead for a major transportation organization. The role designs, deploys, automates, and maintains scalable, secure, enterprise-grade cloud environments, primarily in AWS with secondary support for Azure. The engineer drives cloud migrations, establishes governance policies, optimizes multi-cloud operations, mentors junior engineers, and delivers business continuity solutions. The position is on-site in Washington, DC, and is a W2 contract through ZipStaff; C2C and 1099 arrangements are not accepted. The successful candidate will lead cloud infrastructure design and operations, promote Infrastructure as Code, and architect migration and modernization strategies. They will establish reusable platform templates and landing zones, cloud security and governance standards, and backup and disaster recovery capabilities. The role also involves resolving complex technical issues, performing root-cause analysis, and collaborating with DevOps, Security, Networking, and Application teams.

Requirements

At least 7 years of broad IT experience spanning systems architecture, infrastructure management, operating systems, databases, enterprise applications, and hybrid networking.
At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure and applications.
Deep knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SSM, RDS, Lambda, and container services such as ECS/EKS.
Practical working knowledge of Azure services, including Virtual Machines, VNETs, Azure Storage, IAM, and Azure Backup.
Automation skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash, and experience managing Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines.
Understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, VPNs, firewalls, hybrid cloud connectivity, secrets management, and cloud security compliance controls.
Hands-on experience with containerization technologies and platforms, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently or in an integrated team, and problem-solving skills under tight SLAs.
Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience leading cloud migrations or platform modernization initiatives in a large enterprise or transportation environment.
Experience establishing cloud governance, landing zones, and reusable platform templates.
Experience mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across DevOps, Security, and Application teams.
Additional depth with multi-cloud operations or advanced AWS/Azure services.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and operational management of scalable, resilient, highly available AWS cloud infrastructure, with secondary support for Azure.
Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, patching, and deployments.
Architect and execute enterprise cloud migration, application modernization, and continuous platform optimization strategies.
Design and maintain standardized, reusable cloud platform templates and enterprise landing zones to accelerate secure team onboarding.
Establish enterprise cloud security standards, IAM best practices, compliance controls, governance policies, and operational workflows.
Design and implement backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions across cloud workloads.
Resolve complex cloud networking, infrastructure, and application integration issues, and perform root-cause analysis with urgency and ownership.
Mentor junior cloud engineers, provide technical guidance across projects, and partner with DevOps, Security, Networking, and Application teams.