Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Overview

 

Position Overview:

 

It’s a chance to build, grow, and make a real impact! Join our team as our new Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect! 

 

Axway is seeking a highly skilled cloud infrastructure expert with deep hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure, enterprise infrastructure operations, Kubernetes, Linux administration, and hybrid cloud environments. This role will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting mission-critical cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers globally.

The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in Azure cloud infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, containerized environments, Kubernetes orchestration, Linux systems administration, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. Multi-cloud experience across AWS and/or GCP is strongly preferred.

 

Location: United States

Remote: Must be in the U.S. and Open to Travel

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and on-premises technologies.
• Architect and support highly available, resilient, and disaster recovery-enabled infrastructure environments.
• Design and implement secure Azure networking solutions including:
  • VNets
  • ExpressRoute
  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure Firewall
  • NSGs
  • Load Balancers
  • Application Gateway / WAF
• Deploy and support mission-critical applications using Azure infrastructure services.
• Act as technical lead for customer onboarding, migration, and cloud infrastructure projects.
• Design, deploy, administer, and troubleshoot enterprise Linux and Windows server environments.
• Manage Active Directory, Entra ID (Azure AD), and hybrid identity integrations.
• Deploy, administer, and support Kubernetes environments, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Support containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes orchestration technologies.
• Manage Kubernetes cluster operations including scaling, upgrades, patching, monitoring, ingress, storage, and security.
• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to support CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native application deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational activities using Terraform, scripting, and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
• Administer infrastructure monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, and Nagios.
• Support enterprise hosting technologies including backup, replication, storage, proxy, and load balancing solutions.
• Provide advanced L3 support across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and storage platforms.
• Perform infrastructure lifecycle management, patching, capacity planning, and operational optimization.
• Participate in audits, disaster recovery testing, operational governance, and security compliance initiatives.
• Conduct root cause analysis and drive long-term operational improvements.
• Participate in after-hours support rotations and scheduled maintenance activities as required.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud infrastructure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure services including:
  • Azure Virtual Machines
  • Azure Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Virtual Network
  • Azure Firewall
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Key Vault
  • Entra ID (Azure AD)
  • Application Gateway / WAF
  • ExpressRoute
  • VPN Gateway
• Strong experience supporting hybrid cloud and hybrid identity environments.
• Deep hands-on Linux administration experience in enterprise production environments.
• Strong expertise with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on experience deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments.
• Experience supporting cloud-native architectures, microservices platforms, and container orchestration frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes ecosystem technologies including:
  • Helm
  • RBAC
  • Ingress Controllers
  • Persistent Storage
  • Cluster Networking
  • Monitoring & Logging integrations
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, Python, ARM Templates, or Bicep.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling