Creative Chaos

Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Azure, AWS

Creative Chaos

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Pakistan

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDNSPythonSplunkTerraformVMware

About the role

  • **Job Summary: **
  • We are hiring a Lead Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer with a strong Wintel infrastructure foundation and current, hands-on capability in modern cloud infrastructure across Azure (primary) and AWS. This role exists to close a capability gap: we have deep on-prem expertise, and we need a leader who can define and drive modern cloud standards, guide technical direction, and uplift the team.
  • You’ll operate as a technical lead with an architecture mindset: creating reference designs, setting guardrails, making pragmatic trade-offs (security, resilience, cost), and leading delivery across infrastructure and hybrid cloud. This is not a DevOps role, you will collaborate with DevOps and engineers, but your focus is infrastructure/platform, governance, reliability, and technical leadership.
  • **Job Responsibilities:**
  • **Cloud & Hybrid Architecture (Azure & AWS)**
  • - Own the target-state hybrid cloud architecture and roadmap (12–24 months), aligning security, resilience, and cost requirements.
  • - Define reference architectures and standards: landing zones, network patterns, identity patterns, logging/monitoring, backup/DR, and environment separation.
  • - Lead design and implementation of secure cloud networking: VNets/VPCs, routing, VPN, ExpressRoute/Direct Connect, Private Link/Endpoints, load balancers, WAF where needed.
  • - Own cloud governance foundations: subscriptions/accounts, management groups, RBAC, naming/tagging, logging, budgets and policy guardrails.
  • **Modern Cloud Operations (Hands-on Leadership)**
  • - Ensure cloud platforms, services, and workloads remain on supported, secure versions; implement drift detection and lifecycle management.
  • - Establish platform observability: Azure Monitor/Log Analytics/App Insights, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry where used; improve alert quality and operational readiness.
  • - Build and maintain backup/DR posture with tested RTO/RPO, runbooks, and regular restore/DR exercises.
  • - Drive FinOps discipline: cost allocation, tagging compliance, rightsizing, reservations/savings plans, and cost anomaly detection.
  • **Security, Governance & Incident Readiness**
  • - Ensure security controls are in place and effective (least privilege, secure baselines, encryption, key management, vulnerability/patch posture).
  • - Log & telemetry onboarding: own onboarding of data/log sources and integration with the SIEM (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel/Splunk) in partnership with Security.
  • - Lead incident response for infrastructure/cloud events: triage, investigation, reporting, RCA, and implementation of preventative controls and guardrails.
  • - Manage, document, and audit configuration changes; champion “repeatable by design” changes and reduce configuration drift.
  • **Wintel & Core Infrastructure Leadership**
  • - Provide technical leadership across core infrastructure services: Windows Server, AD DS, DNS/DHCP, certificates/PKI, and integration with Entra ID.
  • - Guide virtualisation/storage teams (VMware/Hyper-V, SAN/storage) towards cloud-aligned standards for resilience, security, and lifecycle.
  • **Leadership and Uplift**
  • - Act as the technical authority for infrastructure and hybrid cloud lead technical decisions and drive outcomes.
  • - Mentor and upskill engineers on modern cloud infrastructure practices; run knowledge sessions and codify standards into reusable patterns.
  • - Provide input during design and architectural discussions with DevOps and software teams; unblock delivery with clear, pragmatic guidance.

Requirements

  • **Must-Have Skills & Experience**
  • - Strong enterprise infrastructure background with a Wintel core (Windows Server, AD, DNS/DHCP, certificates) and operational discipline.
  • - Demonstrable, hands-on Azure production experience including:
  • - Identity/RBAC/Entra integration
  • - VNets, VPN/ExpressRoute, Private Link/Endpoints
  • - Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, backup/DR patterns, policy/guardrails
  • - Working knowledge of AWS production environments (accounts/VPC, security groups, IAM basics, CloudWatch).
  • - Strong troubleshooting and incident leadership across OS/network layers; confident with vendors/escalations.
  • - Scripting/automation mindset (strong PowerShell; Bash/Python beneficial).
  • - Ability to create architecture artefacts: reference designs, diagrams, standards, and decision records (ADRs).
  • **Preferred Certifications****AZ-104 , AZ-305 or AZ-500
  • **Desirable**
  • - Conditional Access and privileged access controls (PIM), break-glass patterns, Zero Trust principles.
  • - Azure Policy/AWS Config, Defender for Cloud/Security Hub, GuardDuty; landing zone governance tooling.
  • - AWS Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, CloudFormation (read/maintain).
  • - Infrastructure-as-Code familiarity (Terraform/Bicep) preferred, but not essential.
  • - Exposure to containers/AKS/EKS and CI/CD concepts (as an enabling partner).
  • - Experience supporting web hosting environments (CDN/WAF, TLS/PKI, caching/performance).
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Hard Skills & Tools
AzureAWSWindows ServerActive DirectoryDNSDHCPPowerShellBashPythonInfrastructure-as-Code
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringincident leadershiptroubleshootingcommunicationcollaborationarchitecture mindsetoperational disciplineguidancedecision making
Certifications
AZ-104AZ-305AZ-500