Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid or Remote Opportunity

Lensa
Chicago, IL

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Join a growing Infrastructure team to help design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure cloud environments that power our organization’s operations. As the Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will work across AWS and Azure platforms, contributing to the modernization and optimization of our infrastructure, and enabling new capabilities for our business. If you thrive in a collaborative team environment and enjoy solving complex challenges in the cloud, this role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact.

Accountabilities

  • Design & deliver cloud foundations: standard account/subscription setup, networking, access, and guardrails, maintaining secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS and Azure.
  • Implement Self-managed AI infrastructure and models or fully managed AI infrastructure like AWS bedrock or Azure AI foundry
  • Build with automation: use Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform or similar) and CI/CD to provision and update environments.
  • Run reliable services: monitor health and performance, respond to incidents, and drive root-cause analysis and fixes.
  • Elevate security & compliance: apply least-privilege access, encryption, logging, and policy/governance standards.
  • Optimize cost & capacity: tag resources, right-size workloads, and surface cost trends and savings opportunities.
  • Guide migrations & modernization: support move/upgrade paths, containerization, and resilience/DR patterns.
  • Document & mentor: maintain clear runbooks/diagrams and coach teammates on best practices.
  • Foundations & Governance: multi-account/subscription structure, policies, and access controls.
  • Networking & Connectivity: VPC/VNet design, routing, load balancing, private connectivity, and DNS.
  • Compute & Containers: virtual machines, container platforms, and serverless where it fits.
  • Data & Storage: object/block/file storage, backups, and retention.
  • Observability: metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards, and service-level indicators.
  • Resilience & DR: multi-AZ/region patterns, RTO/RPO targets, and periodic testing.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in infrastructure/operations/DevOps/SRE, with 5+ years focused on cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating production workloads in AWS; Azure exposure is a plus.
  • Practical IaC experience (Terraform or equivalent) and comfort with automated pipelines.
  • Solid grasp of cloud networking, identity & access, security basics, and cost management.
  • Experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management tools.
  • Solid knowledge of cloud security principles and best practices.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills; leads incidents and post-incident improvements.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team setting.
  • Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience with containers/orchestration and GitOps workflows.
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA) and policy-as-code concepts.
  • Helpful certifications (not required): AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Pro; Azure Administrator/Architect.

Compensation

  • $100,000 - $150,000 commensurate with experience, plus bonus eligibility

Benefits

We are proud to offer a robust benefits suite that includes:

  • Competitive base salary plus incentive plans for eligible team members
  • 401(K) retirement plan that includes a company match of up to 6% of your eligible salary
  • Free basic life and AD&D, long-term disability and short-term disability insurance
  • Medical, dental and vision plans to meet your unique healthcare needs
  • Wellness incentives
  • Generous time off program that includes personal, holiday and volunteer paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules and hybrid/remote options for eligible positions
  • Educational assistance

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If you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]
Posted 2025-11-24

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