Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required).

Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Operations- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with Azure as the primary platform and AWS support focused on integration with project-team-managed workloads and potential future expansion.- Build and maintain cloud networking, storage, compute, app services, virtualization, and containerized environments.- Ensure scalability, resiliency, and high availability through proactive performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational optimization.- Partner with operations teams to monitor production services, resolve incidents, and improve reliability across cloud platforms. Security, Identity, and Compliance- Implement and maintain cloud security configurations aligned with SEC security policies and zero-trust principles.- Engineer and support identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra Identity, RBAC, conditional access, and least-privilege models.- Enforce governance controls and policy compliance to support organizational and regulatory requirements, audit readiness, and risk reduction.- Drive patching, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration baselines across cloud-hosted infrastructure. Automation, IaC, and CI/CD Enablement- Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure.- Integrate infrastructure workflows with CI/CD pipelines to standardize deployments, reduce manual effort, and improve release quality.- Implement reusable IaC modules, scripting standards, and version-controlled operational artifacts.- Advance automated operating models to increase consistency, security, and scalability. Migration, Modernization, and Technical Leadership- Lead migration of workloads from legacy/on-premises platforms to modern Azure cloud and hybrid architectures with minimal disruption.- Optimize cloud resource utilization, cost, and service performance based on operational and mission priorities.- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and cross-functional infrastructure teams.- Create and maintain architecture documentation, SOPs, and implementation guidance to support sustainable operations.