Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Role overview

Join Axway as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, automate, and support mission-critical cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers worldwide. You’ll serve as a senior technical leader focused on Microsoft Azure, hybrid environments, and Kubernetes-driven platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure using Azure and on-premises technologies.
• Architect and support high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery environments.
• Build secure Azure networking solutions, including:
  • VNets, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway
  • Azure Firewall, NSGs
  • Load Balancers, Application Gateway / WAF
• Deploy and support enterprise applications using Azure infrastructure services.
• Act as technical lead for customer onboarding, migration, and cloud infrastructure projects.
• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise Linux and Windows server environments.
• Manage identity and hybrid integrations including Active Directory and Entra ID (Azure AD).
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes environments, especially Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Operate containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Manage Kubernetes operations: scaling, upgrades, patching, monitoring, ingress, storage, and security.
• Partner with DevOps/engineering to support CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments.
• Automate provisioning and operations using Terraform, scripting, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Support monitoring/observability with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios.
• Support enterprise hosting capabilities such as backup, replication, storage, proxy, load balancing.
• Provide advanced L3 support across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and storage.
• Perform infrastructure lifecycle management: patching, capacity planning, operational optimization.
• Participate in audits, governance, DR testing, and security compliance.
• Lead root cause analysis and drive long-term operational improvements.
• Participate in after-hours support rotations and scheduled maintenance.

Requirements

• 9+ years designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including:
  • Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage
  • 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 hybrid cloud and hybrid identity experience.
• Deep hands-on Linux administration in enterprise production environments.
• Strong containerization expertise: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience: deploying, administering, upgrading, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of cloud-native and microservices architectures.
• Kubernetes ecosystem knowledge including:
  • Helm, RBAC, Ingress Controllers (additional items mentioned but truncated)

Nice to have / preferred

• Multi-cloud experience across AWS and/or GCP.

Location / travel

• Must be based in the United States (remote role).
• Open to travel.