Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure+AWS)

Job Summary: We are hiring a Lead Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer with a strong Wintel infrastructure foundation and current, hands-on capability in modern cloud infrastructure across Azure (primary) and AWS.

This role exists to close a capability gap: we have deep on-prem expertise, and we need a leader who can define and drive modern cloud standards, guide technical direction, and uplift the team.

You’ll operate as a technical lead with an architecture mindset: creating reference designs, setting guardrails, making pragmatic trade-offs (security, resilience, cost), and leading delivery across infrastructure and hybrid cloud.

This is not a DevOps role, you will collaborate with DevOps and engineers, but your focus is infrastructure/platform, governance, reliability, and technical leadership.

Job Responsibilities

Cloud & Hybrid Architecture (Azure & AWS) Own the target-state hybrid cloud architecture and roadmap (12–24 months), aligning security, resilience, and cost requirements.

Define reference architectures and standards: landing zones, network patterns, identity patterns, logging/monitoring, backup/DR, and environment separation.

Lead design and implementation of secure cloud networking: VNets/VPCs, routing, VPN, ExpressRoute/Direct Connect, Private Link/Endpoints, load balancers, WAF where needed. Own cloud governance foundations: subscriptions/accounts, management groups, RBAC, naming/tagging, logging, budgets and policy guardrails.

Modern Cloud Operations (Hands-on Leadership) Ensure cloud platforms, services, and workloads remain on supported, secure versions; implement drift detection and lifecycle management.

Establish platform observability: Azure Monitor/Log Analytics/App Insights, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry where used; improve alert quality and operational readiness. Build and maintain backup/DR posture with tested RTO/RPO, runbooks, and regular restore/DR exercises.

Drive FinOps discipline: cost allocation, tagging compliance, rightsizing, reservation