Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Lead

Northeastern University; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeastern University is seeking an Assistant Director to lead the hybrid infrastructure, covering Cloud, on‑premises compute, storage and backup. The role emphasizes real‑time health monitoring, proactive incident management, and driving operations to high availability while guiding a team to optimize and secure physical and virtual estates.

The ideal candidate brings deep AWS/Azure expertise, governance, security, networking, and automation.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture (hybrid, on-prem and cloud).
• Deep knowledge of cloud networking, security, compute, storage and hybrid connectivity.
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation tools and IaC.
• Strong governance, security controls and regulatory awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers and administrators.
• Implement real-time health monitoring and incident triage processes.
• Manage outages, communications and rapid remediation efforts.
• Oversee budget planning and cost governance for the network infra.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Hybrid infrastructure management

Cloud architecture (Azure & AWS)

Infrastructure automation

Security and Zero Trust

Cost governance

Team leadership

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform Cloud

Zabbix

SolarWinds

Nagios

Job description

Northeastern University is seeking an Assistant Director to lead the hybrid infrastructure, covering Cloud, on‑premises compute, storage and backup. The role emphasizes real‑time health monitoring, proactive incident management, and driving operations to high availability while guiding a team to optimize and secure physical and virtual estates.

The ideal candidate brings deep AWS/Azure expertise, governance, security, networking, and automation.