Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - W2 ONLY

About the role

We are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer who resides in Texas, preferably within one hour of Austin. The position is W2 only; we cannot work with C2C contractors or provide sponsorship. You will support the Data Center Operations – AI & Application Platform for Excellence (APEX) team in managing and modernizing the agency’s multi‑cloud environment across Azure and AWS, building, configuring, securing, and supporting IaaS, PaaS, and serverless cloud services while ensuring operational stability, compliance, and performance for migrated and steady‑state workloads.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, secure, and support IaaS, PaaS, and serverless cloud services in Azure and AWS.
• Ensure operational stability, compliance, and performance for migrated and steady‑state workloads.
• Manage and modernize the agency’s multi‑cloud environment.
• Support the Data Center Operations – AI & APEX team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Ability to clearly explain and apply foundational cloud network design principles, including segmentation, high availability (HA), least‑privilege access controls, stability, debugging, and network security.
• Knowledge and experience in solutioning, configuring, integrating, and securing cloud networking and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless) in Azure and/or AWS.
• Understanding of DevOps principles and experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Experience with containerization, deploying and configuring microservices.
• Kubernetes architecture deployment, scaling, and maintenance.
• Proficient automation skill set using command‑line scripting (Bash, Korn, PowerShell, Cloud CLI, Kubernetes Helm) and third‑party tools.
• Experience with declarative and imperative languages (YAML, JSON, Ruby, HCL, etc.) and tools (Ansible, Docker, Terraform, etc.) for infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC).
• Experience with cloud and performance monitoring, auditing, logging, and operations tools such as Sysdig Secure (CNAPP), Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, GCP Cloud Operations, Azure Monitor, OCI Monitoring, etc.
• Experience with cloud recovery strategies for storage replication, automated recovery plans, and protecting data for cloud disaster recovery.
• Knowledge and/or hands‑on experience with cloud database services (RDBMS/NoSQL, SQL/Oracle), data lakes, and cloud ETL/ELT best practices, including frameworks for handling structured and unstructured data.
• Understanding of cloud services like Azure Data Factory, OCI Data Integrator, Google Data Fusion, AWS Kinesis, DataSync.
• Experience and understanding of best practices for optimizing IT cloud infrastructure, tracing, and troubleshooting, aligning with standards, policy, and IT information security controls.
• Effective written and oral communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• One or more cloud certifications for Azure, AWS, Google, or Oracle (e.g., Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Data Architect) or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in solutioning, configuring, integrating, and securing cloud networking and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless).
• Highly organized, responsive, and highly detailed problem solver.
• Worked for or have experience with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission or other Texas state IT agencies.