Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Evaluate, strategize, and implement the transition of on-premise technologies to the cloud encompassing network, hybrid connectivity, compute, storage, databases, applications, and AI tools.

• Deploy multi-cloud solutions utilizing AWS and Azure, focusing on standardization, native-service optimization, and workload interoperability.

• Develop the FinOps operational framework through right-sizing, optimization of compute and storage, autoscaling, cost transparency, guardrails, and minimizing maintenance and licensing expenses.

• Provide global content delivery and workload enhancement to ensure swift and efficient applications.

• Create multi-region high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore solutions, along with observability and telemetry capabilities.

• Establish the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline, which includes defining SLIs/SLOs, managing error budgets, incident management, conducting blameless postmortems, on-call duties, escalation processes, and automation for toil reduction.

• Enforce security measures including identity management, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, zero-trust principles, compliance standards, and data sovereignty controls.

• Automate infrastructure management using Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies along with Python or PowerShell scripting.

• Oversee cloud vendors and migration partners, enhancing delivery through agile methodologies and kanban practices.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Security teams to develop solutions.

• Mentor and nurture engineers while acting as a specialist in cloud readiness.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years in infrastructure and cloud engineering with a lead-level focus.

• Practical experience in both on-premise and cloud settings.

• Proven track record of migrating on-premise systems to cloud environments covering network, compute, storage, and databases.

• Experience in application modernization beyond simple re-hosting.

• Demonstrated experience in implementing multi-cloud strategies and production solutions with major providers, preferably AWS and Azure.

• Familiarity with FinOps principles, including right-sizing, commitment and discount strategies, cost visibility, and minimizing recurring software maintenance and licensing costs.

• Background in global content delivery, workload optimization, capacity planning, performance engineering, and autoscaling.

• Knowledge in multi-region high availability, disaster recovery, backup strategies, observability, telemetry, and on-call operations.

• Experience in establishing SRE practices, such as SLOs, error budgets, incident command, blameless postmortems, on-call processes, and toil reduction strategies.

• Understanding of least-privilege IAM, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, zero-trust principles, regional compliance, and data sovereignty.

• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR.

• Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep.

• Skilled in Python or PowerShell scripting.

• Experience utilizing AI to facilitate assessment, migration, and automation processes.

• Proven experience in managing cloud vendors and migration partners.

• Familiarity with agile and kanban methodologies.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

• Cloud certifications (AWS or Azure) are advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• 401(k) plan with employer matching.

• Extensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Wellness program.