Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field
7+ years of infrastructure, systems, cloud, or platform engineering experience
3+ years of hands-on production cloud engineering in Azure and/or AWS
Experience supporting hybrid environments integrating on-premises and public cloud services
Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity management, and disaster recovery concepts
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices
Experience with managed-service providers and evaluating technical designs
Responsibilities
Lead technical architecture and engineering standards for private cloud, Azure, and AWS environments
Provide engineering support for private-cloud tenants, including troubleshooting and infrastructure management
Design and govern Azure and AWS infrastructure aligned with business requirements
Serve as a technical escalation point for cloud infrastructure incidents and performance issues
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform and Azure DevOps
Integrate cloud security measures in collaboration with Cybersecurity teams
Monitor and optimize cloud utilization and costs, partnering with IT leadership
Benefits
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision
401k retirement program with company match
17 paid days off plus 8 paid holidays per year
Opportunities for career advancement in a high-growth company
Full Job Description
The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer serves as a senior technical leader supporting Quva's hybrid cloud environment spanning private cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and managed-service provider (MSP) delivered cloud services. This role combines hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering with leadership in architecture, governance, automation, security integration, operational escalation, cost optimization, and technical oversight. The position leads complex initiatives, establishes scalable standards, mentors technical team members, and strengthens internal cloud capability across providers while continuing to leverage external partners for operational scale, specialist capabilities, and after-hours support.
What the Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Does Each Day:
Lead the technical architecture, engineering standards, roadmap, and lifecycle direction for Quva's private cloud, Azure, and AWS environments
Provide direct engineering support for existing private-cloud tenants, including compute, storage, networking, identity integration, monitoring, backup, recovery, and infrastructure troubleshooting
Design, implement, and govern Azure and AWS infrastructure using scalable, secure, repeatable patterns aligned with business and application requirements
Serve as an internal Azure/AWS technical resource and escalation point for cloud infrastructure incidents, complex changes, migrations, integrations, and performance issues
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation practices using technologies such as Terraform, Bicep/ARM, AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions, as appropriate to Quva standards
Partner with Cybersecurity to integrate cloud identity, privileged access, network security, logging, vulnerability management, endpoint/workload protections, and security monitoring into cloud architecture
Architect and maintain cloud connectivity and network services, including virtual networks/VPCs, routing, DNS, VPN/private connectivity, load balancing, firewalls/security groups, and hybrid-cloud integration
Implement and maintain standards for cloud observability, monitoring, alerting, log collection, backup, disaster recovery, resilience, and capacity/performance management
Contribute technical expertise to workload migration planning, landing-zone design, cloud adoption, tenant/account/subscription structure, and application infrastructure modernization
Monitor and optimize cloud utilization and spend through rightsizing, lifecycle management, reservations/savings approaches where appropriate, resource cleanup, and cost visibility; partner with IT leadership on cloud cost governance
Support the technical oversight of MSP-delivered cloud services. Review designs, validate engineering decisions, coordinate escalations, and confirm that services align with Quva architecture, security, resiliency, and support requirements
Maintain architecture diagrams, technical standards, runbooks, inventories, support documentation, recovery procedures, and institutional knowledge for Quva's cloud platforms
Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, problem management, change management, and disaster-recovery testing for infrastructure and cloud services
Collaborate with application, security, data, business systems, and infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into supportable technical solutions
Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to internal IT team members while reducing reliance on provider-specific institutional knowledge
Establish clear technical ownership across Quva-operated and provider-operated cloud services, including architecture, IAM, networking, automation, monitoring, security, backup/disaster recovery, and optimization
Define technical acceptance criteria for MSP projects and operational changes and validate solutions before production handoff
Review MSP incidents, recurring problems, service performance, technical debt, security findings, and optimization opportunities; drive corrective actions to closure
Ensure Quva retains current architecture documentation, administrative knowledge, configuration visibility, and recovery information necessary to independently oversee its environments
Partner with Procurement, Finance, Security, and IT leadership as appropriate to evaluate technical scope, service consumption, licensing, capacity, and provider performance
Our Most Successful Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer has / is:
Cloud Architecture and Engineering
Hybrid Infrastructure
Automation and Infrastructure as Code
Cloud Security and Identity Integration
Reliability, Backup and Disaster Recovery
FinOps and Cost Optimization
Technical Vendor and MSP Governance
Incident and Problem Resolution
Documentation and Knowledge Management
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
Minimum Requirements for this Role:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
7+ years of progressive infrastructure, systems, cloud, or platform engineering experience, including 3+ years of hands-on production cloud engineering in Azure and/or AWS and demonstrated leadership of complex technical initiatives
Demonstrated experience supporting hybrid environments that integrate on-premises/private-cloud infrastructure with public cloud services
Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, monitoring, backup/recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery concepts
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, scripting, configuration automation, and CI/CD practices for infrastructure deployment
Experience working with managed-service providers, consulting partners, or outsourced infrastructure teams, with the ability to independently evaluate technical designs and provider recommendations
Working knowledge of cloud security concepts, least-privilege access, logging/monitoring, vulnerability remediation, encryption, secrets management, and secure configuration practices
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across cloud, network, identity, operating system, application dependency, and provider boundaries
Familiarity with ITIL-aligned incident, problem, change, configuration, and service-management practices
Strong technical documentation, communication, vendor-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
18+ years of age
Able to successfully complete a drug and background chec
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; Quva is not able to sponsor applicants for work visas
Any of the Following Will Give You an Edge:
Experience supporting regulated, pharmaceutical, healthcare, manufacturing, or other highly controlled environments
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or comparable Azure credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator certification
Experience with Terraform and enterprise landing-zone or cloud-governance frameworks
Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Organizations, or comparable cloud-management services
Benefits of Working at Quva:
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental and vision
401k retirement program with company match
17 paid days off plus 8 paid holidays per year
National, industry-leading high growth company with future career advancement opportunities
About QuVa Pharma
QuVa Pharma is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the production and distribution of sterile injectable drugs. The company's products are used in hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities to treat a variety of conditions, including pain, infections, and cancer. QuVa Pharma's facilities are located in Texas and North Carolina, and the company has distribution centers throughout the United States. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.
