About the company
The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will design, maintain, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure supporting a healthcare credentialing platform. This hands-on role combines AWS cloud engineering, DevOps, and systems administration, offering broad ownership across cloud and on-premises environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and operate secure, resilient, and highly available AWS infrastructure using services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS, S3, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, and Systems Manager, following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for security, performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and disaster recovery readiness.
- Manage infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation and support CI/CD pipelines for container builds, infrastructure changes, and application deployments.
- Operate containerized workloads on Amazon ECS and ECS Anywhere, and administer Rancher-native Cattle clusters.
- Serve as the Linux administration specialist, managing server provisioning, security hardening, patching, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
- Administer Windows Server infrastructure, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and IIS.
- Maintain and optimize on-premises Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure using Prism Element, Prism Central, and AHV.
- Automate infrastructure configuration, system maintenance, and patch management using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and AWS Systems Manager.
- Manage SMTP relay infrastructure using Postfix and/or Amazon SES, ensuring reliable email delivery and maintaining SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and TLS configurations.
- Oversee SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management across IIS, Linux web servers, Postfix, AWS Certificate Manager, and load balancers.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
- Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot infrastructure incidents.
- Support security and compliance requirements, including HITRUST and SOC 2 controls.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and/or Systems Administration, including at least 3 years supporting production workloads in AWS.
- A bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS, S3, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, Systems Manager.
- Expert-level Linux administration skills.
- Strong Windows Server administration experience, particularly with Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and IIS.
- Practical experience managing Rancher-native Cattle clusters, Amazon ECS, and ECS Anywhere.
- Demonstrated expertise in Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure, including Prism Element, Prism Central, AHV.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code, particularly AWS CloudFormation.
- Strong scripting and automation capabilities using PowerShell and Bash; Python development experience is highly desirable, particularly with boto3.
- Working knowledge of SMTP relay administration, including Postfix and/or Amazon SES.
- Hands-on experience with end-to-end SSL/TLS certificate management, including CSRs, certificate chains, OpenSSL, PEM/PFX formats.
- Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, security groups.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, backup strategies, and disaster recovery practices.
Conditions
- This remote opportunity is ideal for a versatile engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges.