Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Manager

RES; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

RES Group is seeking a Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering Manager in Denver, CO to lead the day-to-day operations of the cloud and infrastructure team. You will own uptime, governance, DR and incident response, while guiding strategy with the Director of Cloud & Infrastructure.

This hands-on leadership role demands Azure expertise and the ability to manage a small-to-medium team, with office presence three days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is required.
• 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure engineering required.
• 2+ years experience Managing an IT engineering team is required.
• Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams is preferred.
• ITIL certification or familiarity with service management best practices is preferred.
• Ability to lead a small to medium technical team day to day and hold the team accountable for results.
• Ability to communicate with and influence leadership, internal partners and vendors to adopt the team's standards and practices.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including status reporting and outage communication during incidents.
• Ability to travel domestically 5 to 15 %.

Responsibilities

• Provides day-to-day operational leadership of the Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering team.
• Owns the team's short-term plans and executes the function's strategy; contributes to team strategy and annual goals.
• Owns the priority and sequencing of the team's work by aligning initiatives to business needs; relies on the technical lead for the technical content of the platform roadmap and communicates trade‑offs to stakeholders.
• Owns governance for Azure and other cloud tools: policy, compliance, cost and security controls, and operating procedures. Ensures the engineering standards are documented, adopted and enforced through change control.
• Creates and maintains processes, procedures and standards for cloud and infrastructure operations, including change control and backup.
• Owns the disaster recovery program for cloud and infrastructure services: ensures DR plans exist and are current, schedules and runs DR tests, and tracks remediation of gaps.
• Owns uptime SLAs for cloud services; monitors service health, reports on availability and drives remediation when targets are missed.
• Leads relevant critical incident response, including availability for after‑hours and weekend escalations; communicates outages, keeps IT leadership informed and ensures post‑incident reviews and follow‑up actions are completed.
• Provides accountability to IT leadership on delivery, service performance, risk and budget for the team's platforms.
• Performs hands‑on engineering work alongside the team: designing, building and maintaining Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions and automation solutions.
• Relies on and empowers the team's technical leads on technical decisions and supports those decisions with stakeholders.
• Attends work regularly and punctually, as scheduled or expected.
• Complies with Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and Company Policies & Projects.
• Coordinates vendor and Microsoft support escalations and manages infrastructure vendor relationships and renewals.
• Reviews and approves changes to production infrastructure in line with change control procedures.
• Works with Security, Architecture and Applications teams to ensure infrastructure is secure, performant and aligned with business requirements.
• Tracks and manages Azure consumption and infrastructure spend; identifies cost optimization opportunities.
• Sponsors research, technical evaluations and proofs of concept on new Azure services and tools.
• Maintains the team's on‑call rotation and runbooks and ensures escalations from the Service Desk are resolved with clear ownership and communication.
• Supports audits and compliance activities related to infrastructure controls.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PowerShell

Bicep

Terraform

ARM templates

Git/GitHub

Zabbix

Rubrik

Azure SQL Database

App Services

Job description

RES Group is seeking a Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering Manager in Denver, CO to lead the day-to-day operations of the cloud and infrastructure team. You will own uptime, governance, DR and incident response, while guiding strategy with the Director of Cloud & Infrastructure.

This hands-on leadership role demands Azure expertise and the ability to manage a small-to-medium team, with office presence three days a week.