Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

TEKsystems - Thetford, VT

Full-time - Mid Level

Thetford, VT

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role at TEKsystems involves building, maintaining, and operating IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure commercial and government clouds. The position requires collaboration with development teams to establish and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Service Level Indicators (SLIs). The ideal candidate will contribute to platform services development, perform integrations, and provide on-call support, while focusing on automation and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure commercial and government clouds.
• Work closely with development teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs.
• Contribute to the development of platform services, including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support.
• Perform integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, instrumentation, incident monitoring, and management systems.
• Build, integrate, and administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production autonomously.
• Provide support for software and cloud infrastructure on an on-call rotation basis.
• Assist with identifying and remediating technical problems at the root cause by implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring.
• Maintain and improve operational tooling and frameworks.
• Build frameworks to test the performance and resiliency of platform services and tools.
• Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, and compliance violations.
• Improve processes and champion the automation of any manual support tasks.

Requirements

• 4+ years in a cloud engineer/SRE role.
• Expertise in cloud platforms, particularly Azure and AWS.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (bare metal or managed) cluster setup and management.
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform and Pulumi.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes deployment tools such as Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux.
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols.
• Understanding of IAM principles and practices.
• Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments.
• Knowledge of encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and understanding of OWASP.
• Experience working with RESTful services.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Familiarity with IDEs and source control tools like Visual Studio Code and Git.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong focus on automation and self-healing practices.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team.
• Proactive in learning and staying updated with the latest technologies and best practices.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)