Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS & Hybrid IT)

El Pollo Loco; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical + Dental + Vision Insurance +H

HSA Savings Account

401(K) Retirement Plan with company‑M

Paid Vacation + Sick Pay + 12 Paid Hol

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

El Pollo Loco is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer for our Costa Mesa-based Support Center. You will steward the hybrid IT environment during a cloud-first replatforming effort, migrating workloads to AWS while maintaining on‑prem systems.

The role requires 3–5 years of hands-on infra experience, strong AWS/VMware skills, and proficiency with IaC and AD/M365 administration. This position offers a collaborative, cross-functional setting with in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3–5 years hands-on infrastructure experience; SQL proficiency.
• Experience administering AWS environments and cloud-native services.
• VMware vSphere/vCenter administration experience preferred.
• Networking/Firewall experience (SD‑WAN, VPN) preferred.
• AD/Azure AD/OneLogin and Microsoft 365 admin experience.
• Infrastructure automation via scripting and IaC practices.
• Comfort working through a transition to cloud-first modernization.

Responsibilities

• Administer and evolve AWS environment with EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, and Cost Explorer.
• Support migration of workloads to AWS-native services; coordinate cutovers and dependencies.
• Maintain multi-account structure and IaC pipelines (CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Evaluate AI/automation tooling on AWS to support adoption roadmap.
• Manage VMware vSphere/vCenter, NSX, and high-availability configurations.
• Oversee colo facility operations, backup and DR readiness, and vendor coordination.
• Administer enterprise networking (Meraki, Palo Alto) and VPN connectivity.
• Manage AD/Entra ID, OneLogin, and Microsoft 365 admin tasks; document processes.

Skills

AWS Cloud

VMware vSphere

Networking (Meraki, Palo Alto, NSX)

AD Administration

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)

IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform)

Microsoft 365 admin

Security/compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, or related field

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

NSX

Ivanti

Atera

Job description

El Pollo Loco is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer for our Costa Mesa-based Support Center. You will steward the hybrid IT environment during a cloud-first replatforming effort, migrating workloads to AWS while maintaining on‑prem systems.

The role requires 3–5 years of hands-on infra experience, strong AWS/VMware skills, and proficiency with IaC and AD/M365 administration. This position offers a collaborative, cross-functional setting with in-office collaboration.