Remote Storage Architect & Cloud Infrastructure Lead

Apex Systems; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

HSA health savings account

EAP with counseling

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a seasoned Remote Storage Engineer – Architect to lead enterprise storage and cloud architecture across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The role emphasizes secure, highly available designs with automation and observability integrated into 24x7 operations.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in IT infra, 5+ years in Azure, and hands-on experience with migrations, Terraform, Kubernetes, and DevOps tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 8+ years in IT infrastructure roles, with at least 5 years focused on Azure cloud engineering.
• Experience designing and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services.
• Proven experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization efforts in regulated environments.
• Experience designing and administering Azure cloud enterprise implementations using resources such as Virtual Machines, Scale sets, and Azure containers or Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with Azure tools such as Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards.
• Experience in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud hosting architecture and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage enterprise IT systems across server, platform, storage, and cloud domains.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN/NAS and storage virtualization solutions.
• Translate functional requirements into technical architectures, integration patterns, and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead complex storage projects, including migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and technical decision artifacts.
• Identify, assess, and recommend new technologies through proofs of concept, pilots, and demos.
• Provide technical leadership to multi-discipline server and system operations teams.
• Architect and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies to protect mission-critical data.
• Administer and optimize large-scale enterprise storage environments, including performance and capacity management.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, and cloud teams to integrate storage services end-to-end.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

Storage architecture

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Cloud governance

Zero-trust security

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Microsoft Entra Identity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PowerShell

Bicep

ARM templates

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Azure Repos

Pipelines

Boards

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a seasoned Remote Storage Engineer – Architect to lead enterprise storage and cloud architecture across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The role emphasizes secure, highly available designs with automation and observability integrated into 24x7 operations.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in IT infra, 5+ years in Azure, and hands-on experience with migrations, Terraform, Kubernetes, and DevOps tooling.