The Opportunity: We are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support and enhance enterprise-grade private and public cloud platforms. This role focuses on building, operating, and optimizing highly available, scalable infrastructure that supports modern web and mobile applications. The ideal candidate has strong Linux and cloud experience, a background in automation and infrastructure-as-code, and hands-on experience supporting production environments at scale.
Role: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Experience: 6-9 Years
Work Location: Phoenix, AZ
Project Duration: 12+ Month Contract
Key Responsibilities:
Design, build, integrate, and support cloud and on-prem infrastructure platforms
Maintain a reliable, secure, and highly available 24x7 production environment
Support multi-tenant, scale-out applications across development, test, and production
Develop tools and capabilities to enable continuous delivery, automation, and self-service provisioning
Lead and support infrastructure enhancements focused on scalability, performance, availability, and efficiency
Support and maintain production-grade platforms such as Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and similar technologies
Deploy and manage COTS applications in Kubernetes-based environments (OpenShift, GKE)
Support infrastructure migrations across on-prem, public cloud, and hybrid environments
Perform cluster management, upgrades, configurations, and migrations on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and perform tuning and patching activities
Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes, including root cause analysis
Collaborate with global teams to deliver high-quality, cost-effective infrastructure services
RequiredQualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
7+ years of overall industry experience, with 5+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering roles
5+ years of hands-on Unix/Linux system administration experience in production environments
3+ years of experience supporting production-grade platforms such as:
Redis (Enterprise)
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Similar distributed or big data technologies
2+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform or equivalent)
2+ years of experience supporting Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including:
2+ years of experience deploying and supporting COTS applications in Kubernetes environments (OpenShift, GKE)
Experience with automation and scripting using Ansible, shell scripting, Python, Java, or similar tools
Strong experience with Linux performance monitoring, security configuration, troubleshooting, and tuning
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading large-scale infrastructure migration programs
Familiarity with hybrid cloud architectures
Experience automating infrastructure operations to improve efficiency and reliability
Working knowledge of enterprise monitoring and observability tools
Experience optimizing troubleshooting and debugging across infrastructure and application layers
Experience working within ITIL-based processes, including incident, problem, and change management
Strong metrics management and reporting experience
Technologent is an Equal Opportunity Employer -- EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled -- for reasonable accommodations, please contact us at hr@technologent.com
Technologent is a Global Provider of Edge-to-Edge℠ Information Technology Solutions and Services for Fortune 1000 and SMB companies. We offer a unique blend of business practices that are aligned to solve for top CIO concerns. Our core competencies focus on data center infrastructure, business continuity, data protection, service automation and orchestration, continuous intelligence, monitoring, connectivity, collaboration and cybersecurity. These practices are supported by our professional services, digital transformation services and financial services offerings. By providing custom solutions and services designed to fit your business needs, we enable your organization to be more agile, responsive and competitive. Technologent empowers your company to ascend to the next level in IT.
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