Senior Cloud Infrastructure Lead — Hybrid

The website; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeastern University seeks an Assistant Director to manage its hybrid infrastructure (cloud and on-prem), ensuring real-time health monitoring, incident management, and high-availability for compute, storage, and backup systems.

The role combines strategic oversight with hands-on execution, guiding cloud architecture (AWS/Azure), governance, security, and automation to align with the university’s infrastructure strategy. Occasional after-hours support is expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of enterprise infrastructure architecture experience across hybrid, on-premises, and cloud
• At least 3 years in a managerial role leading engineers/administrators
• Deep expertise in Cloud networking, security, compute, storage, and hybrid connectivity

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers and administrators
• Implement real-time health monitoring and incident triage processes
• Design and maintain scalable, secure Azure and multi-cloud architectures
• Oversee budgeting, cost governance, and capacity planning
• Drive automation and IaC practices with Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates

Skills

Cloud architecture

Team leadership

Hybrid infrastructure

Incident response

Cost governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Northeastern University seeks an Assistant Director to manage its hybrid infrastructure (cloud and on-prem), ensuring real-time health monitoring, incident management, and high-availability for compute, storage, and backup systems.

The role combines strategic oversight with hands-on execution, guiding cloud architecture (AWS/Azure), governance, security, and automation to align with the university’s infrastructure strategy. Occasional after-hours support is expected.