Senior Cloud Engineer

The Role

Brookhaven National Laboratory is seeking a senior information technology cloud engineer with strong experience in Microsoft Azure-based infrastructures to join our Information Technology Division (ITD).

Organizational Overview

Brookhaven Lab's Information Technology Division's (ITD) mission is to deliver safe, efficient operations that ensure the delivery of the Lab's research mission by:

• Developing and deploying state-of-the-art information and computing systems in support of scientific research and business operations
• Providing a reliable and secure, high-speed network infrastructure for scientific and business computing
• Developing a scientific computing infrastructure that can support the computing needs that are common among the scientific departments
• Providing support to scientific and administrative programs to help them address their unique computing problems
• Providing a cost–effective, highly reliable, secure, and standardized computing infrastructure
• Promoting best practices in the areas of platform support, application development, and customer service
• Providing cost-effective information services to the Brookhaven Lab community including Research Library, publications, records management, and technical editing services, in support of the research mission and in compliance with contractual requirements

ITD includes experts in information technology (IT) infrastructure and operations, cyber security, business systems, data information, and information services, including records management and the Research Library. The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator who is resourceful and innovative, and who understands that collaboration with stakeholders from across the Laboratory is critical to ensure the right expertise and technology are in place to advance our mission of bringing science solutions to the world.

The Role in Detail

As a senior cloud engineer, you will help lead the design, development, implementation, and automation of cloud infrastructure services and solutions, primarily in the Microsoft Azure environment. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on establishing and maturing infrastructure engineering, automation, and platform development. You will focus on modernizing and improving our cloud toolset, processes, and practices while improving platform reliability and scalability. As a member of a small group of senior engineers, you will be expected to significantly contribute to the maturity of our IT infrastructure cloud engineering department.

Your experience in partnering with developers, infrastructure teams, and stakeholders to align infrastructure with business and research needs will be crucial to your success. As a mixed on-premise and cloud-based IT organization, your ability to build and influence the direction of strategic IT roadmaps is critical. Additionally, fostering an infrastructure-as-code mindset while lifting the team’s overall maturity and growth will be important to long-term success in the role.

This role also supports and enables the Lab’s evolving AI initiatives by providing secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-enabled applications. You will partner with our application, data, and AI teams to deliver reusable platform capabilities that support both traditional and AI-driven workloads.

Professional Attributes

• Hands-on builder with a strong engineering mindset
• Focused on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement
• Comfortable working across teams (applications, engineering, security, operations)
• Curious and adaptable, with interest in emerging technologies including AI
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and business acumen

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Cloud services lifecycle management

• Design, deploy, manage, and support Azure SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services throughout their full lifecycle
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with Laboratory standards and best practices

Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

• Automate provisioning and operational workflows using common scripting and configuration tools
• Integrate infrastructure into CI/CD pipelines
• Continuously automate and eliminate manual processes
   

Reliability, Security & Operations

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues
• Participate in incident response and continuous improvement efforts
• Ensure infrastructure meets security, compliance, and governance standards
• Support cost optimization and performance tuning