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 such as Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Puppet, or Ansible.
- Strong networking knowledge including routing, switching, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, reverse proxy, HAProxy, and NGINX.
- Experience implementing infrastructure hardening and security best practices aligned to CIS and NIST frameworks.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability platforms.
- Experience working with ServiceNow, Salesforce, Jira, or similar ITSM/ticketing platforms preferred.
- Multi-cloud experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) strongly preferred.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently in fast-paced production operations environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience collaborating across global teams.
- Customer-first mindset with strong stakeholder management capabilities.
Preferred Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) preferred
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) preferred
- AWS Solutions Architect certification is a plus
