Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Opeeka, Inc

Job Location: OPEEKA INC - Folsom, CA
Position Type Full Time
Education Level 4 Year Degree
Salary Range $100,000.00 - $175,000.00 Salary/year
Job Shift Day
Job Category Information Technology


Description

FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports To: Director of Software Development

Working Hours: Generally Monday through Friday

Pay Range: $100,000 to $175,000

Location: Folsom, CA, United States

Job Summary

As the Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will own our cloud infrastructure, which is built in, but not limited to, Microsoft Azure, and ensure the scalability, reliability, and security of our environments. You will take ownership of setting up and maintaining new environments, deploying application code, and closely monitoring the infrastructure. In this position, you will work cross-functionally with our engineering, QA, Customer Service and security teams to continuously improve and streamline our CI/CD pipelines, containerization strategies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes), and cloud governance practices. You will develop and implement a comprehensive roadmap to scale and maintain the infrastructure as our product and client base grows, anticipating and addressing future requirements.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Ownership: Own and manage our Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and security.
• Ensure that the cloud environments comply with industry-standard security practices—including encryption, identity and access management, and monitoring—to meet regulatory requirements like SOC 2 and GDPR.
• Set up, configure, and maintain new and existing environments using infrastructure as code and manual configuration.
• Ensure consistency across development, staging, and production environments.
• Utilize Microsoft Azure DevOps for source control (Git), build and release pipelines.
• Deploy application code using Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Edit and configure Yaml.
• Streamline deployment processes and minimize downtime.
• Monitor system health, performance, and security using appropriate tools.
• Build and maintain dashboards that monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure real-time visibility into system performance, uptime, and compliance metrics.
• Proactively troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues.
• Perform advanced system administration tasks within the Azure Portal.
• Manage Azure resources like app services, Kubernetes services, virtual machines, networking, and storage.
• Ensure infrastructure changes are version-controlled and auditable.
• Interface with offshore teams, providing guidance and support.
• Define and implement long-term DevOps and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Drive initiatives for automation, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Architect and document new infrastructure, ensuring that it is highly scalable and resilient.

Financial Responsibilities

• Track and manage Azure cloud costs across multiple environments.
• Monitor and analyze cost trends for all Azure services, ensuring efficient usage of resources and cost optimization.
• Provide regular reports on Azure spending, including cost allocation and forecasting.
• Collaborate with finance and other stakeholders to ensure accurate billing and cost allocation, helping to reduce unnecessary expenses.
• Implement and maintain cost management tools to proactively track and optimize cloud spend as new instances and services are deployed.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Oversee and delegate tasks to offshore team members, ensuring work is completed efficiently and within project timelines.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, including Customer Support, Engineering, QA, Security, and offshore teams.
• Experience collaborating with security teams to ensure infrastructure meets all security and compliance standards.

Knowledge

• All operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, must support applications without issues.
• Microsoft Azure and DevOps[AO1]
• Azure AD B2C, Application Insights, Key Vault, Azure Logs
• Azure App Services, Functions, Blob Storage, WAF, Front Door
• REST/Web Services/API/SOAP/WCF.
• Infrastructure as code such as Terraform or ARM
• APM tools (DataDog, Grafana, New Relic)
• Git
• Expert-level Kubernetes and containerization
• Expertise in cloud networking concepts, including firewalls, VPCs, and secure gateways

Education and/or Experience

• BS degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or related experience.
• 7+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure.
• Familiarity with other cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
• 5+ years using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management
• 5+ years of experience managing .NET services on Kubernetes

Nice to have:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• AWS and Google Cloud Platform experience
• ASP.Net development
• Experience writing SQL queries

Physical Requirements:

• Frequent on-site, team interaction.
• Frequent sitting, standing, and walking.
• Occasional to frequent repetitive motion.
• Frequent talking and listening in person and over the phone.
• Close up and distance vision requirements.

Emotional/Psychological Demands:

Ability to cope with: long periods of concentration; pressure and deadlines; occasional long or irregular hours; occasional public contact; changing priorities.

Work Environment:

Open office environment; moderate temperatures; moderate noise levels.

Compensation details: 100000-175

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