Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

TRAC Intermodal•Plainsboro Twp, NJ

About The Position

The Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, operating, optimizing, securing, and improving the resiliency of the company’s Microsoft Azure and hybrid infrastructure. The role provides hands-on engineering support across Azure, identity, Windows infrastructure, virtualization, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, and infrastructure services supporting business applications. It partners closely with DevOps, Information Security, Application Development, Application Support, PPMO, and managed-service providers. The engineer supports Azure services and infrastructure, manages cloud consumption and cost optimization, and maintains Windows, identity, and hybrid infrastructure. The role also contributes to infrastructure modernization, enterprise backup and recovery, disaster recovery readiness, monitoring and operational excellence, security and compliance, and business and technology projects. It includes senior-level troubleshooting and escalation support, technical documentation, and coordination across internal teams and external providers.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering experience.
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, ideally Rubrik.
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/FinOps practices.
Linux administration experience.
Experience supporting enterprise audit, ITGC, and cybersecurity requirements.
Familiarity with GitHub-based infrastructure or DevOps workflows.
One or more relevant certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate; Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert; HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate; or Nutanix, Rubrik, VMware, or relevant Microsoft security certification.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, administer, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure and cloud services, including subscriptions, resource groups, networking, compute, storage, identity integration, monitoring, and related platform services.
Monitor Azure service health and coordinate responses to platform incidents and service 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.
Review new infrastructure builds for technical requirements and cost efficiency, and develop proactive monitoring and reporting for cloud spend.
Engineer and support Windows Server and hybrid infrastructure services, including Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD capabilities and integrations, on-premises Active Directory, DNS, authentication, certificates, and service accounts.
Troubleshoot complex issues spanning cloud and on-premises environments and provide senior-level escalation support to internal IT teams and managed service providers.
Support modernization and reduction of legacy on-premises infrastructure; evaluate virtualization technologies and migration strategies, including transition from legacy VMware dependencies where appropriate.
Support Nutanix or comparable virtualization and hyperconverged platforms based on the approved infrastructure architecture.
Administer and support backup and recovery platforms, including Rubrik; assist with backup policies, monitor backup health, investigate failures, and support data-restoration requests.
Contribute to disaster recovery planning, testing, documentation, remediation, production DR exercises, and maintenance of infrastructure recovery procedures.
Develop knowledge and documentation to reduce 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 observability.
Investigate service degradation, performance issues, unusual consumption patterns, and platform incidents; drive root-cause analysis and preventative remediation.
Improve availability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through automation and standardization.
Partner with Information Security to maintain secure infrastructure configurations and remediate vulnerabilities; support audits by providing infrastructure evidence and ensure findings are addressed within agreed timelines.
Follow privileged-access, change-management, configuration-management, and infrastructure-security standards, and 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 dependencies with Application Development, DevOps, Application Support, Security, vendors, and MSP resources.
Participate in architecture and technical design reviews.