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LAYIQ - Cloud Infrastructure Engineer III at Astreya, Boulder, CO

● Design and architect GCP environments (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage with retention policies, VPC networking) for centralized security applications, setting the standards implementation engineers execute.
● Architect virtualized on-premise and cloud-hosted infrastructure for Linux and Windows enterprise operating systems.
● Design and own high-availability mechanisms — failover, hot-swap, cold-swap, clustering, geo-redundancy and load-balancing — across physical and virtual infrastructure.
● Define the infrastructure IAM model across OS (Windows / Linux) and environment (cloud /
VM / physical server) tooling, embedding least-privilege and least-service operational security.
● Design tiered storage and database architectures optimized for retention, uptime and auditability, including backup / restore and audit-logging strategy.
● Establish orchestration and configuration-management standards using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Git, PowerShell, DellOME and NetBox; set automation patterns in Python and Bash.
● Serve as the primary engineering-tier escalation point for operations and sustainment functions when standard playbooks are exceeded.
● Monitor hardware and software product lifecycles; lead EOL evaluations and product upgrade testing.
● Author Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Technical Design Documentation
(TDDs) and runbooks from baseline; manage initiatives through the programme’s PM
Workflow to align with SLAs and KPIs.
● Mentor and provide technical guidance to implementation (L2) engineers, conducting design reviews and knowledge-transfer sessions to build team capability.
Required Qualifications & Skills
● 8–12 years of progressive experience in cloud and enterprise infrastructure engineering, including architecture and design ownership in production environments.
● Expert GCP architecture across Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC and IAM, with demonstrated cloud-native high-availability design.
● Deep Infrastructure-as-Code mastery — Terraform and Ansible (mandatory) — plus Puppet, Git, Bash, Python and PowerShell for orchestration and automation.
● Strong Linux and Windows enterprise OS administration and virtualization (VMware / Hyper-
V); Dell iDRAC and DellOME hardware management.
● IAM design across OS and cloud (Active Directory, Google IAM, RBAC) with least-privilege enforcement; storage and database architecture including retention, backup/restore and audit logging.
● Strong technical authoring (BRDs, TDDs, runbooks from baseline); network engineering fundamentals to coordinate with the Network Engineering team.
● Certifications — Required: GCP Professional Cloud Architect. Strongly preferred: GCP
Professional Cloud Security Engineer, GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
Beneficial: Red Hat RHCE, HashiCorp Terraform Associate/Professional, ITIL Foundation.
Tools Required
● Cloud & Environment: GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM) for building and sustaining centralized security-application infrastructure.
● IaC & Orchestration: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Git, PowerShell, Bash, Python for automated deployment, configuration management and sustainment.
● Hardware & OS: Dell iDRAC, DellOME, NetBox; Linux (RHEL / Ubuntu) and Windows
Server; VMware and Hyper-V virtualization.
● Identity & Governance: Active Directory, Google IAM, RBAC for least-privilege access; Programme PM Workflow (BRD / TDD / Project Charter) for project governance.

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