Cloud network engineer in Rochester,NY- EST - 100% Remote

Role Summary

The Senior Cloud & Network Infrastructure Engineer provides the vision, strategy, architecture, and handson engineering required to design, build, secure, and optimize enterprisegrade hybrid cloud platforms. This role leads the development of scalable, resilient, and costefficient infrastructure solutions across public cloud, private cloud, and onpremises environments. The engineer will drive technology research, evaluation, design, automation, and delivery across the full infrastructure lifecycle while serving as a trusted advisor to leadership and a mentor to engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture, Strategy & Leadership

• Define and drive the enterprise hybrid cloud strategy across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and onpremises platforms.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to IT leadership on cloud adoption, modernization, and cost optimization.
• Lead businesscritical infrastructure initiatives, platform transformations, and strategic technology programs.
• Establish technology standards, governance models, and best practices for cloud, network, and security architectures.
• Provide mentorship, technical leadership, and guidance to engineering teams and junior staff.

Infrastructure Engineering & Solution Design

• Architect and design secure, scalable, and highly available cloud and onprem infrastructure solutions.
• Integrate multiple systems and technologies across cloud, network, virtualization, and security domains.
• Conduct proofofconcepts, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend enterprise adoption paths.
• Create detailed design documents, deployment architectures, and operational runbooks.
• Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and infrastructure modernization efforts.

Hybrid Cloud Operations & Automation

• Build and maintain optimized hybrid cloud environments leveraging PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and onprem resources.
• Develop automation workflows using Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, YAML/JSON, and REST APIs.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC), configuration management, and CI/CD practices.
• Ensure strong operational performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Drive continuous improvement in monitoring, observability, and operational efficiency.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure alignment with security, compliance, audit, and SOX requirements across all infrastructure layers.
• Implement secure network architectures including SDWAN, nextgen firewalls, segmentation, and zerotrust principles.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce policies, standards, and risk mitigation strategies.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Vendor Management

• Work directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Partner with vendors, OEMs, and SMEs to evaluate products, negotiate solutions, and support RFI/RFP processes.
• Provide clear communication, documentation, and executivelevel updates on project progress and technical decisions.

Required Technical Expertise

A senior candidate must demonstrate advanced proficiency in at least five (5) of the following:

• Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
• Networking: Cisco, Arista, SDWAN, wireless, load balancers (F5), network orchestration (CloudVision)
• Security: Palo Alto or similar nextgen firewalls, ForeScout
• Virtualization & Compute: VMware ESXi, Nutanix
• Automation & IaC: Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, YAML, JSON, REST API
• Network/Cloud Simulation: GNS3 or similar

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of progressive experience in cloud, network, or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience designing and delivering hybrid cloud solutions at enterprise scale.
• Strong scripting and automation background.
• Advanced understanding of disaster recovery, high availability, and cloud security.
• Professional certifications preferred (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Cisco, Palo Alto, VMware, etc.).
• Demonstrated leadership, mentorship, and ability to influence technical direction.

Soft Skills & Leadership Traits

• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• High degree of business maturity, confidentiality, and sound judgment.
• Ability to lead crossfunctional teams and collaborate effectively.
• Commitment to integrity, accountability, and continuous learning.