Senior Engineer, Hybrid Infrastructure

Fortra

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Engineer, Hybrid Infrastructure is a hands‑on technical leader responsible for designing, operating, and continuously improving a secure, resilient, and cost‑effective hybrid infrastructure spanning on‑premises datacenters and public cloud (Azure and AWS). The role drives platform modernization, consolidation, automation, and reliability initiatives across compute, storage, networking, identity, and infrastructure security. This position provides technical hands-on leadership to a small engineering team and partners closely with Security, Enterprise Applications, DevSecOps, and Enterprise Architecture to deliver scalable, well‑governed infrastructure platforms.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 3 years operating hybrid environments spanning on‐premises infrastructure and Azure/AWS.
Strong hands‑on experience with virtualization, Windows and Linux systems, enterprise storage, backup and recovery, and datacenter networking.
Deep knowledge of Azure and AWS core services, including identity, networking, security, compute, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, scripting (PowerShell, Bash), and CI/CD platforms.
Strong enterprise systems understanding and pragmatic architecture skills, with a bias toward automation, standardization, and continuous improvement.
Elevated level of documentation quality and operational discipline.
Clear and effective communication skills across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Strong incident ownership, sound judgment, and ability to remain composed in high‑impact situations.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and operate hybrid enterprise infrastructure across on‑premises datacenters, Azure, and AWS.
Lead consolidation and rationalization of infrastructure platforms, tools, and cloud subscriptions to reduce complexity, risk, and total cost of ownership.
Build and operate Azure and AWS environments aligned with Well‑Architected Frameworks and industry best practices.
Establish and operate observability and reliability practices, including logging, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and error budgets.
Define and contribute to multi‑year infrastructure roadmaps, architecture standards, and reusable design patterns.
Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform, Bicep/CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management (Ansible, PowerShell DSC).
Embed Zero Trust security principles across hybrid environments, including least privilege, segmentation, and secure connectivity.
Partner with security teams on risk mitigation, vulnerability management, and incident response.
Ensure business continuity and disaster recovery readiness through documented runbooks, regular testing, and RTO/RPO compliance.
Own infrastructure lifecycle management including provisioning, updates, hardware refresh coordination, incidents, and change management.
Drive cost optimization, capacity planning, usage forecasting, and foundational financial governance across infrastructure platforms.
Provide technical leadership to a small team through mentoring and identifying opportunities for professional growth.