Senior Infra Automation Architect — Cloud, IaC & Security

Florida Power & Light; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Provided

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

NextEra Energy seeks a senior technologist to drive architecture decisions for automated infrastructure provisioning across cloud, servers, networking, security, IAM, and ITSM. You will work with partners, architects, and operations to ensure secure, compliant, and production-ready outcomes.

The role requires broad depth in cloud, automation, and infrastructure platforms, with a track record delivering IaC-driven provisioning systems and enterprise standards across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure engineering or cloud architecture.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale architecture in multi-domain environments.
• Designing IaC-driven provisioning systems (Terraform or equivalent).
• Lead architect in cross-functional initiatives with internal teams and vendors.
• Ability to balance security, scalability, and delivery speed in production.
• Define and enforce enterprise infrastructure standards and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for automated provisioning of infrastructure resources across cloud, compute, networking, security, DNS/IPAM, IAM, ITSM/CMDB, monitoring, and operations.
• Direct design decisions with implementation partners to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards, operational requirements, and long-term ownership models.
• Define and enforce reusable infrastructure patterns, interfaces, controls, and operating requirements for application-ready infrastructure across domains.
• Identify, analyze, and eliminate technical dependencies, design gaps, and provisioning bottlenecks that result in manual tickets, handoffs, or delays.
• Make architecture decisions across Infrastructure as Code, orchestration, policy automation, integration, resiliency, observability, supportability, and lifecycle management.
• Validate that delivered automation capabilities are fully supportable, operable, and extensible by NextEra teams in production environments.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud architecture

Terraform

IaC

Education

Bachelor’s or Equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

NextEra Energy seeks a senior technologist to drive architecture decisions for automated infrastructure provisioning across cloud, servers, networking, security, IAM, and ITSM. You will work with partners, architects, and operations to ensure secure, compliant, and production-ready outcomes.

The role requires broad depth in cloud, automation, and infrastructure platforms, with a track record delivering IaC-driven provisioning systems and enterprise standards across multiple domains.