Senior Cloud & Infra Engineer — Hybrid (Azure + VMware)

Rimes; Metro Manila; Hybrid; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Rimes is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer to join our global Technology team. You will lead infrastructure projects, drive cloud architecture decisions, and ensure scalable, secure, and reliable platforms across Microsoft Azure and on-prem environments.

You will collaborate with development and data teams, manage incidents, and align work in Jira and Tempo to deliver high‑performing services. Hybrid work model with some in-office days is offered.

Qualifications

• Strong experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments (cloud and on-premise).
• Hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure, including core infrastructure services.
• Experience supporting or migrating workloads to Azure-native data platforms.
• Understanding of Azure data services and how infrastructure underpins data engineering pipelines.
• In-depth experience of VMware virtualization and enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Strong understanding of Windows Server and core services.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code.
• Proven experience leading technical projects and leading architectural decisions.
• Proven experience supporting SQL environments and data platform infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted operations tooling (e.g. AIOps platforms, Copilot, AI-driven monitoring and alerting).

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for infrastructure and cloud projects, owning delivery from planning through to implementation.
• Drive architectural decision-making within the infrastructure team, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to best practices.
• Build, configure, and maintain infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and on-premise environments.
• Support and optimise VMware-based platforms, including compute, storage, and associated services.
• Lead incident response for complex issues, acting as an escalation point and driving root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (development, data) to deliver reliable and high-performing platform services.
• Accurately track and update work in Jira and Tempo, ensuring visibility of progress, discovered work, and blockers.

Skills

Hybrid infra

Azure expertise

Azure-native data platforms

VMware virtualisation

Windows Server

Infrastructure as Code

Technical leadership

SQL/data platform infra

AI/ops tooling

Project management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Job description

Rimes is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer to join our global Technology team. You will lead infrastructure projects, drive cloud architecture decisions, and ensure scalable, secure, and reliable platforms across Microsoft Azure and on-prem environments.

You will collaborate with development and data teams, manage incidents, and align work in Jira and Tempo to deliver high‑performing services. Hybrid work model with some in-office days is offered.