Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Quva • Sugar Land, TX

8h

About The Position

The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for Quva’s hybrid cloud environment, spanning private cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and managed-service-provider-delivered services. The position combines hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering with leadership in architecture, governance, automation, security integration, operational escalation, cost optimization, and technical oversight. The engineer leads complex initiatives, establishes scalable standards, mentors technical team members, strengthens internal cloud capabilities, and works with external partners for operational scale, specialist capabilities, and after-hours support.

The role provides direct engineering support for private-cloud tenants and designs, implements, and governs Azure and AWS infrastructure. It leads cloud architecture and engineering standards, infrastructure-as-code and automation practices, cloud networking and connectivity, observability, security integration, resilience, backup and disaster recovery, governance, and cost optimization. The engineer is also an internal escalation point for complex incidents, changes, migrations, integrations, and performance issues.

The position oversees MSP-delivered services by reviewing designs and engineering decisions, coordinating escalations, setting technical acceptance criteria, validating production handoffs, and driving corrective actions. It maintains architecture documentation, standards, runbooks, inventories, and recovery information; participates in incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and disaster-recovery testing; and collaborates across IT, security, application, data, business systems, procurement, and finance teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of progressive infrastructure, systems, cloud, or platform engineering experience, including at least 3 years of hands-on production cloud engineering in Azure and/or AWS, and demonstrated leadership of complex technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting hybrid environments that integrate on-premises/private-cloud infrastructure with public cloud services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, monitoring, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery concepts.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, scripting, configuration automation, and CI/CD practices for infrastructure deployment.
• Experience working with managed-service providers, consulting partners, or outsourced infrastructure teams, and ability to independently evaluate technical designs and provider recommendations.
• Working knowledge of cloud security concepts, least-privilege access, logging and monitoring, vulnerability remediation, encryption, secrets management, and secure configuration practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across cloud, network, identity, operating system, application dependency, and provider boundaries.
• Familiarity with ITIL-aligned incident, problem, change, configuration, and service-management practices.
• Strong technical documentation, communication, vendor-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Able to successfully complete a drug and background check.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; Quva is unable to sponsor applicants for work visas.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting regulated, pharmaceutical, healthcare, manufacturing, or other highly controlled environments.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or comparable Azure credentials.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator certification.
• Experience with Terraform and enterprise landing-zone or cloud-governance frameworks.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Organizations, or comparable cloud-management services.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture, engineering standards, roadmap, and lifecycle direction for Quva’s private cloud, Azure, and AWS environments.
• Provide direct engineering support for private-cloud tenants, including compute, storage, networking, identity integration, monitoring, backup, recovery, and troubleshooting.
• Design, implement, and govern scalable, secure, repeatable Azure and AWS infrastructure patterns aligned with business and application requirements.
• Serve as an internal Azure and AWS technical resource and escalation point for incidents, complex changes, migrations, integrations, and performance issues.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation practices using appropriate technologies and Quva standards.
• Partner with Cybersecurity to integrate identity, privileged access, network security, logging, vulnerability management, endpoint and workload protections, and security monitoring into cloud architecture.
• Architect and maintain cloud connectivity and network services, including virtual networks/VPCs, routing, DNS, VPN/private connectivity, load balancing, firewalls/security groups, and hybrid-cloud integration.
• Implement and maintain standards for observability, monitoring, alerting, log collection, backup, disaster recovery, resilience, and capacity and performance management.
• Contribute technical expertise to workload migration planning, landing-zone design, cloud adoption, tenant/account/subscription structure, and application infrastructure modernization.
• Implement cloud governance controls for access, resource organization, tagging, configuration standards, policy enforcement, change control, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Monitor and optimize cloud utilization and spend through rightsizing, lifecycle management, reservations or savings approaches where appropriate, resource cleanup, and cost visibility; partner with IT leadership on cost governance.
• Provide technical oversight of MSP-delivered cloud services by reviewing designs, validating engineering decisions, coordinating escalations, and confirming alignment with Quva requirements.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, technical standards, runbooks, inventories, support documentation, recovery procedures, and institutional knowledge for cloud platforms.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, change management, and disaster-recovery testing for infrastructure and cloud services.
• Collaborate with application, security, data, business systems, and infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into supportable technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to internal IT team members while reducing reliance on provider-specific institutional knowledge.
• Establish clear technical ownership across Quva-operated and provider-operated cloud services, including architecture, IAM, networking, automation, monitoring, security, backup/disaster recovery, and optimization.
• Define technical acceptance criteria for MSP projects and operational changes, and validate solutions before production handoff.
• Review MSP incidents, recurring problems, service performance, technical debt, security findings, and optimization opportunities; drive corrective actions to closure.
• Ensure Quva retains current architecture documentation, administrative knowledge, configuration visibility, and recovery information needed to oversee its environments independently.
• Partner with Procurement, Finance, Security, and IT leadership as appropriate to evaluate technical scope, service consumption, licensing, capacity, and provider performance.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision.
• 401(k) retirement program with company match.
• 17 paid days off plus 8 paid holidays per year.
• Career advancement opportunities at a national, industry-leading high-growth company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior