Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud, Networking & Automation

Strategic Link Consulting; Kennesaw (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Link Consulting in Kennesaw, GA is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to architect, design, implement, and operate enterprise infrastructure across data centers, public cloud, and private cloud. You will translate business and technical needs into secure, scalable solutions and lead designs through implementation and handoff.

The role requires 10+ years of infrastructure experience, expertise in networking, security, automation, and cloud platforms, and a hands-on approach in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure, systems, cloud, network, platform, or related engineering experience.
• Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with software-defined networking and storage.
• Relevant cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, automation, or architecture certifications.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, implement, and maintain enterprise infrastructure across data center, public cloud, and private cloud environments.
• Develop technical architectures and detailed designs addressing availability, scalability, performance, security, connectivity, and disaster recovery.
• Design and support enterprise Layer 2/Layer 3 networking, including VLANs, VRFs, routing, BGP, segmentation, and resilient network architectures.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot firewall security policies, security zones, NAT, VPNs, and network access controls.
• Develop infrastructure automation using scripting, APIs, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Promote repeatable, declarative, and Git-based approaches to infrastructure configuration and deployment.
• Design and maintain highly available infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and observability solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex issues spanning systems, storage, networking, cloud, security, and applications; perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent solutions.
• Develop infrastructure standards, reference architectures, technical diagrams, implementation plans, and operational documentation.
• Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations based on technical requirements, security, cost, complexity, and operational impact.
• Lead technical initiatives and design reviews while providing mentorship and technical guidance to other engineers.
• Collaborate with security, application, database, development, architecture, and business teams to deliver infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Analytical

Mathematical

Active Listening

Problem Solving

Critical Thinking

Project Management

Planning/Organizing

Technical Skills

Judgment

Communication

Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Container orchestration

GitOps

CI/CD

Git-based infrastructure management

Job description

Strategic Link Consulting in Kennesaw, GA is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to architect, design, implement, and operate enterprise infrastructure across data centers, public cloud, and private cloud. You will translate business and technical needs into secure, scalable solutions and lead designs through implementation and handoff.

The role requires 10+ years of infrastructure experience, expertise in networking, security, automation, and cloud platforms, and a hands-on approach in a