Senior Cloud & Infrastructure EngineerNew

Rimes; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Rimes is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer to lead hybrid cloud projects across Azure and on-prem environments. This role requires hands-on cloud and virtualization expertise, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to guide complex initiatives.

You will collaborate with development and data teams to deliver scalable, secure platform services, manage incident responses, and document progress in Jira and Tempo. This is a hybrid role with office days in Manila.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with hybrid cloud environments (cloud and on-prem).
• Hands-on Azure infrastructure services expertise.
• Experience migrating workloads to Azure-native data platforms.
• Understanding of Azure data services underpinning data pipelines.
• VMware virtualization and enterprise infrastructure proficiency.
• Windows Server proficiency with core services.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code.
• Leadership in technical projects and architectural decisions.
• Experience supporting SQL environments and data platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted operations tooling (AI-driven monitoring).

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for infrastructure and cloud projects, owning delivery end-to-end.
• Drive architectural decisions to ensure scalable, secure solutions.
• Build, configure, and maintain infrastructure on Azure and on-premises.
• Support and optimise VMware-based platforms including compute and storage.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platform services.
• Maintain progress visibility in Jira and Tempo.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Azure

VMware

Windows Server

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

AI ops

Data platforms

Education

Azure certification

VMware certification

Networking certification

Tools

Azure

VMware

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

The Opportunity:

The Rimes Technologies Infrastructure Team is the very heart of the Technology Organization, its primary objectives to ensure that the Technology in use by Rimes customers is innovative, reliable, performant, scalable and secure. Delivering world class Customer experience for our both External and Internal users to the Rimes Corporation.

We operate global services, our teams are both passionate and committed to the demands of our customers ensuring that we are both innovative and proactive in delivering the technology and mission critical data within SLA. Rimes delivers its technology from both our own datacenter and the Cloud.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer to join our global Technology team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established firm with a global presence and significant growth potential.

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

Requirements:

• 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 (e.g. networking, identity, storage, compute provisioning)
• In-depth experience of VMware virtualisation 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).

Desirable:

• Familiarity with automation tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• AWS exposure
• Relevant certifications (Azure, VMware, Networking)
• Databricks experience

Work Model:

hybrid approach, 2 days per week in our office, hours 5am - 2pm

Only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. We appreciate your understanding. Thank you for considering a career with us.

Rimes is committed to promote the values of diversity and inclusion throughout the business. Whether it’s through recruitment, retention, career progression or training and development, we are committed to improving opportunities for people regardless of their background or circumstances.

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