Sr IaaS Platforms Engineer

OpenKrill; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vailexa is seeking a Lead – IaaS Platform to own the architecture, engineering direction, and operational model of infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities. This role enables teams to consume compute, network, and storage through standardized, policy-driven, self-service experiences.

You will define target architecture and catalogs, guardrails and lifecycle standards; promote IaC, automated provisioning, and repeatable environment creation; lead onboarding and migrations across teams, and

Responsibilities

• Define target architecture and roadmap for IaaS services across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments
• Establish service catalogs, reusable infrastructure patterns, tenancy models, quotas, policy controls, and lifecycle standards
• Guide integration among compute, networking, storage, IAM, security, monitoring, configuration, and service-management capabilities
• Promote infrastructure as code, automated provisioning, immutable patterns, and repeatable environment creation
• Define requirements for availability, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability, support, and service-level performance
• Establish guardrails for security, compliance, resource governance, tagging, consumption management, and cost allocation
• Lead platform onboarding, migration, adoption, and continuous improvement across engineering and application teams
• Measure provisioning time, adoption, reliability, utilization, incident trends, and cost to demonstrate platform value

Job description

Build More Than Just a Career. Build Your Future.

At Vailexa, we’re not just hiring — we’re building thinkers, creators, and future leaders.

We believe in giving people the space to grow, the freedom to think, and the opportunity to create real impact from day one. If you’re someone who wants to learn fast, take ownership, and grow beyond limits, you’ll feel right at home here.

Role Summary

Lead – IaaS Platform is responsible for the architecture, engineering direction, and operational model of infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities. This role enables teams to consume compute, network, storage, and related services through standardized, policy-driven, self-service experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target architecture and roadmap for IaaS services across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Establish service catalogs, reusable infrastructure patterns, tenancy models, quotas, policy controls, and lifecycle standards.
• Guide integration among compute, networking, storage, IAM, security, monitoring, configuration, and service-management capabilities.
• Promote infrastructure as code, automated provisioning, immutable patterns, and repeatable environment creation.
• Define requirements for availability, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability, support, and service-level performance.
• Establish guardrails for security, compliance, resource governance, tagging, consumption management, and cost allocation.
• Lead platform onboarding, migration, adoption, and continuous improvement across engineering and application teams.
• Measure provisioning time, adoption, reliability, utilization, incident trends, and cost to demonstrate platform value.

Ready to take the next step?

If you’re excited about this role and ready to grow with a team that values ambition, ideas, and impact — we’d love to hear from you.