Azure Cloud Infrastructure Manager
SAIC · Washington
SAIC is looking for a Cloud & Server Systems Infrastructure Manager who will be responsible for leading the enterprise server, storage, networking, and cloud engineering functions during a major modernization effort, including the full shutdown of legacy data centers and transition to a 100% Azure Government cloud environment. This role oversees a team of multi‑disciplinary engineers supporting mission‑critical infrastructure, ensuring compliance with federal security standards, continuity of operations, and high availability across hybrid platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & Operational Management
- Lead, mentor, and manage a technical team of server, cloud, storage, and networking engineers.
- Oversee daily operations ensuring 24/7/365 system availability, SLA adherence, and infrastructure stability.
- Manage engineering workload and resource allocation for migration, modernization, and operational priorities.
- Drive root‑cause analysis (RCA), incident response, and major incident management and on-call rotations.
Data Center Closure & Azure Government Migration
- Serve as the technical lead for Data Center Closure Program, including assessment, planning, and execution of server, storage, networking, and application migrations to Azure.
- Develop target-state architectures for Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS replacements based on modernization goals.
- Coordinate across workstreams (Applications, Databases, Storage, Networking, Security, DR/COOP) to ensure end‑to‑end migration readiness.
- Lead migration activities using Azure Migrate, Data Box, replication tools, and database modernization techniques.
- Ensure alignment with Azure capabilities, constraints, and roadmap dependencies.
On-Premises Infrastructure & Platform Support
- Oversee Windows Server, Linux (RHEL), and Unix server platforms during migration and decommissioning phases.
- Maintain and operate enterprise storage systems (Hitachi SAN/NAS) until retirement.
- Manage enterprise backup systems (Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity) including Azure‑integrated backup and long‑term retention strategies.
- Conduct patch management, tuning, capacity planning, firmware upgrades, and lifecycle management for legacy infrastructure.
Azure Cloud Operations & Governance
- Manage and operate Azure resources including VNets, ExpressRoute, storage, compute, identity, and security controls.
- Implement and maintain Azure governance including RBAC, Entra ID, conditional access, resource policies, cost management, tagging, and FinOps.
- Architect secure landing zones, DMZ environments, firewall policies, and segmentation for workloads.
- Oversee integration of on‑prem and cloud network infrastructure, including redesign of network topology during data center shutdown.
Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response
- Implement Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Sentinel, dashboards, and automated alerting for complete infrastructure visibility.
- Lead post‑incident RCA, develop corrective actions, and enforce operational improvements for reliability and rapid recovery.
- Maintain configuration baselines, performance metrics, and operational health reporting for leadership and compliance teams.
Process Modernization, Automation & Documentation
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, cloud adoption, performance tuning, and service optimization.
- Maintain migration runbooks, SOPs, architectural diagrams, DR plans, and datacenter shutdown documentation.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, cloud adoption, performance tuning, and service optimization.
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