Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer

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Position Summary

InfraSec builds and secures Harris Associates cloud foundation on Microsoft Azure. The team runs the estate as code - identities networks virtual machines Kubernetes and data platforms are defined reviewed and deployed through automated pipelines rather than managed by hand. Its a lean hands-on team that partners closely with DevOps Data and Application teams and holds a high bar for security given the firms regulated environment.

The Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer is a hands-on individual-contributor role at the center of this infrastructure-as-code operation working across environments and cloud regions with deep involvement in identity networking compute and data-platform security. Were looking for an experienced infrastructure or security engineer who thinks in systems is comfortable owning production-grade cloud environments and wants the scope to shape how a growing platform is built and secured.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• AI-enabled tooling: Build and manage AI/LLM-based skills and agentic workflows that give the team leverage governed under the same security review and least-privilege discipline as any other credentialed automation with human review before anything ships.
• Patching and on-call: Share the teams operational rotations patch the estate roughly three to four Saturdays a year and serve as on-call first responder for infrastructure and security issues about one week a month resolving directly or escalating as needed.
• Infrastructure as code: Author and maintain Terraform across roughly 18 repositories multiple environments and regions with Azure Storage state backends holding the line on version/provider discipline import safety and plan-diff review.
• Identity and access management: Provision and govern Microsoft Entra ID app-role and role-assignable groups PIM/JIT Conditional Access Workload Identity Federation and Microsoft Graph designing least-privilege grants and auditing existing ones.
• Cloud networking: Design and operate hub-and-spoke topology management-group policy and custom roles NSG/firewall rules routing and trusted network locations and troubleshoot when it breaks.
• Virtual machines and golden images: Provision hardened Azure VMs from a shared module (secure boot vTPM encryption at host Hybrid Benefit) and build/maintain golden Windows Server images with Packer.
• Kubernetes and containers: Support the AKS platform alongside DevOps workload identity service-mesh and egress behavior and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Data and analytics platform access: Govern access and security settings for Databricks Snowflake Power BI/Microsoft Fabric and Purview and manage platform-level governance.
• Monitoring and incident response: Keep signal high and noise low with Azure Monitor and lead root-cause investigations across pipelines capacity and connectivity.
• CI/CD review and automation: Deliver every change through Azure Pipelines and a gated Terraform flow review pull requests for what CI cant catch and improve the automation itself.

Qualifications

Required

• 7 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure engineering experience with production-grade experience on a major cloud platform (Azure preferred).
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills - Terraform or a comparable tool - including state management provider discipline and safely importing existing resources.
• Solid grounding in identity and access fundamentals: RBAC service principals/managed identities and least-privilege design.
• Cloud networking expertise: hub-and-spoke or equivalent topologies firewalls/NSGs routing and DNS.
• CI/CD delivery experience with a platform like Azure DevOps plus scripting in PowerShell and/or Bash.
• A security-first mindset with comfort working inside change-control and approval gates.
• Clear written communication skills for documenting decisions and processes.

Preferred:

• Kubernetes/AKS operations experience - node pools workload identity and service mesh.
• Experience with Packer or golden-image build pipelines.
• Data-platform governance experience (e.g. Databricks Snowflake Power BI/Microsoft Fabric).
• Experience in a regulated or financial-services environment.

Special Requirements

This role shares the teams operational rotations: a monthly Saturday patching cycle (roughly three to four Saturdays per year) and a weekly on-call rotation (about one week per month) as first responder for infrastructure and security issues. Occasional early-morning evening or weekend work may be required to support patch windows and critical incidents. Flexibility with working hours is key.

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