Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Raleigh, NC

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Job Description:

Join a growing Infrastructure team to help design, build, andmaintainrobust, scalable, and secure cloud environments that power our organization's operations. As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will also lead governance and oversight of our Cloud Infrastructure Managed Services (CIMS) provider -ensuring that contracted services are delivered reliably, securely, and cost-effectively in alignment with the organization's cloud strategy. This role blends deep cloud engineering with operational excellence, incident leadership, and vendor performance management.

Work Arrangement:

• Employees who live within 30 miles of the TMG home office are expected to follow a hybrid or in-office schedule. The initial training period may require additional inoffice days.

Accountabilities:

Cloud Engineering & Platform Operations

• Design & deliver cloud foundations including account/subscription setup, networking, access controls, guardrails, and secure, scalable architecture patterns across AWS and Azure.

• Implement automation through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD pipelines to provision, update, andmaintainenvironments.

• Run reliable services by monitoring system health, performance, logs, and security events, responding to incidents, and driving root-cause analysis.

• Support modernization & migrations, including containerization, serverless adoption, and transition to resilient multi-AZ/region patterns.

Vendor Governance & Managed Services Oversight

• Serve as the primary technical day-to-day interface with the Cloud Infrastructure Managed Services (CIMS) provider supporting our AWS and Azure environments.

• Oversee adherence to SOW/MSA obligations, including scope, SLAs, security tasks, DR drills, ticket concurrency limits, escalation matrix steps, cost reporting, and monthly governance deliverables.

• Review andvalidatesupplier-delivered RCAs, ensuring corrective actions arecompletedand prevention steps are implemented.

• Review and approve vendor-initiated changes to ensure alignment with internal standards.

• Participate in bi-weekly governance meetings, contributing to KPI reviews, risk tracking, cost insights, and optimization recommendations.

Incident & Problem Management

• Lead technical response for cloud-related Severity 1 & 2 incidents, coordinating with the supplier and internal teams to restore service quickly.

• Ensure incidents meet response andresolutionSLAs and escalate via the SOW's escalation matrix when needed.

• Drive problem management byidentifyingrecurring patterns and implementing remediation with the supplier.

Security, Identity & Compliance

• Apply and enforce cloud security baselines, including MFA, PAM, RBAC, encryption, logging, monitoring, and identity governance.

• Validate periodic vulnerability assessments and cloud security scoring delivered by the supplier; ensure remediation progress.

• Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure cloud environments adhere todata-protectionrequirements.

Cost Optimization & FinOps Collaboration

• Review monthly cloud consumption and cost reports delivered by the supplier;validateaccuracy of consumption-based CIMS billing tiers.

• Identifyand action cost optimization opportunities including rightsizing, scheduling, storage optimization, and cleanup activities.

• Enforce tagging and cost-allocation standards for consistent reporting and chargeback readiness.

Documentation, Standards & Knowledge Sharing

• Maintain up-to-date runbooks, diagrams, and SOPs; ensure supplier documentation meets internal expectations.

• Share best practices and mentor teammates in modern cloud practices, automation, and operational excellence.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in infrastructure/operations/DevOps/SRE roles, with 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering.

• Hands-on experience running production workloads in AWS and/or Azure.

• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform or equivalent) and experience with CI/CD automation.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM/RBAC, security, and cost management.

• Experience working with or overseeing a cloud managed services provider, including ticket management, SLA interpretation, and escalation processes.

• Strong troubleshooting and incident-response experience, especially in cloud environments.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Experience with containers, orchestration, andGitOpsworkflows.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA) and policy-as-code concepts.

• Cloud certifications (AWS or Azure)stronglypreferred but notrequired.

Pay Range:

Anticipated Hiring Range:

• $100,000 - $150,000annual base salary depending on experience, qualifications, and geographic location

Benefits:

We are proud to offer our full-time regular employees 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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