Platform & Cloud Engineer

Socket.dev; Winchester (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Trex is seeking a Platforms & Cloud Engineer to own and optimize the Azure cloud environment, ensuring security, reliability, and scalability for enterprise applications.

You will partner with infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to deliver robust cloud solutions aligned with business goals and technology strategy in Winchester, VA. This full-time role demands leadership in cloud design and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of progressive enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering experience.
• 3+ years hands-on Azure administration in production.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize the Microsoft Azure environment for stability and security.
• Design, deploy, and operate Azure infrastructure and platform services.
• Manage governance, cost controls, policies, and compliance in Azure.
• Monitor health, performance, and capacity; proactively address issues.
• Collaborate with networking, security, and application teams on cloud solutions.
• Participate in on-call and incident response; after-hours support as needed.
• Coordinate with vendors for cloud products and managed services.
• Support lifecycle activities including upgrades and migrations.

Skills

Active Directory / DNS / DHCP / VPN / 

Load Balancing

Azure administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Azure

VMware

Cisco UCS

ESXi

Pure Storage

Job description

When you work at Trex, you’re helping to grow and enhance a true original. You join a company that boldly launched an entire industry… and still leads the way.

The Platforms & Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, administration, optimization, and security of the organization's Microsoft Azure cloud environment and supporting platform infrastructure. This role serves as the technical owner of cloud services, ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and security of enterprise-hosted applications, systems, and services. The engineer partners with infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions that align with business objectives, operational requirements, and technology strategy.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Put safety first – Always!
• Lead and foster our “people first” culture.
• Systems Administration
  • Serve as the primary owner and administrator of the organization's Microsoft Azure environment, ensuring platform stability, performance, and security
  • Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize Azure infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, storage, backup, recovery, and platform services
  • Manage Azure governance, including subscriptions, management groups, policies, resource tagging, cost controls, and compliance requirements
  • Monitor cloud infrastructure health, availability, capacity, and performance, proactively addressing issues before business impact occurs
  • Implement and maintain cloud security controls, identity management, conditional access policies, and security best practices in partnership with cybersecurity teams
  • Lead cloud architecture and platform modernization initiatives to improve scalability, resilience, operational efficiency, and service delivery
  • Participate in infrastructure lifecycle management activities, including upgrades, migrations, patching, and capacity planning
• Vendor Management
  • Work closely with outside vendors for quoting and ordering new products
  • Work closely with outside vendors for managed services for cloud base environments in Azure and AWS
• Support / Incident Management
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, cloud, networking, and platform-related incidents and problems
  • Participate in on‑call support and incident response activities as required to maintain critical service availability
  • Track, monitor and document interaction on tickets for timely resolution in a high‑availability manufacturing environment. (After‑hours, weekend and holiday support are sometimes required)
  • Some travel to other facilities in Arkansas and Nevada is required
• Business Analysis
  • Interact and work closely with all facets of the business
  • Understand functional requirements of the manufacturing organization and translating them into actionable deliverables for IT
  • Liaison with other IT disciplines (Network, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Applications) to ensure proper support of projects and systems in operations
• Other
  • Other duties as assigned

JOB LOCATION

Winchester, Virginia, United States

POSITION TYPE

Full-Time/Regular

EXPERIENCE

We are looking for leaders with Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or like program or equivalent experience), 5+ years of progressive experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, or systems engineering environments, and 3+ years of hands‑on experience administering and supporting Microsoft Azure in a production environment.

Required Skills & Experience

• Active Directory/DNS/DHCP/VPN/Load Balancing experience.
• Must be able to communicate both verbally and in writing with users of differing technical knowledge to translate business requirements and information.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Microsoft Certified in Azure Administration, Solution Architecture, Security Engineering
• Experience in HA manufacturing environments
• Experience with Cisco UCS, VMWare, ESXi, Pure Storage