- Company Name
- eStaff LLC
- Job Title
- Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
- Job Description
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Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Role Summary:
Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure and AWS, supporting AI and application platform operations. Accountable for IaaS, PaaS, and serverless services, ensuring high availability, security, and efficient migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud.
Expectations:
- Minimum 6+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience with Azure and AWS.
- Operate under a W2 employment arrangement.
- Residence in Texas, preferably within one hour of Austin.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, configure, monitor, administer, and secure cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, serverless).
- Support steady‑state operations and cloud migrations for data center operations.
- Deploy and maintain containerized microservices using Kubernetes.
- Implement DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate infrastructure using scripting (Bash, PowerShell, cloud CLIs) and IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, etc.).
- Configure and monitor cloud performance, logging, and auditing with tools such as Sysdig, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, etc.
- Design and enforce cloud disaster recovery plans, storage replication, and data protection strategies.
- Manage cloud databases (relational, NoSQL) and data integration services (Azure Data Factory, AWS Kinesis, etc.).
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and compliance with IT security standards.
Required Skills:
- Azure and AWS cloud solutioning, configuration, networking, and security.
- Containerization, Kubernetes architecture, scaling, and maintenance.
- Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, cloud CLIs; declarative languages: YAML, JSON, HCL.
- IaC tools: Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Helm.
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles.
- Cloud monitoring, logging, and performance tools.
- Disaster recovery, data replication, and backup strategy design.
- Cloud data services (SQL/NoSQL, data lakes, ETL/ELT).
- Strong communication skills, detail‑oriented problem solving.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- One or more relevant cloud certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect, or equivalent).