Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Position Information Job Category Professional/Administrative Position Title Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Full Time/Part Time Full Time Division Dean of the Faculty Department Information Technology Services - Services and Shared Infrastructure Work Arrangement type On-Site (Hamilton, NY) – expected to work fully at the designated campus/office location. Hiring Wage/Salary Range $90,000.00-$95,000.00

Professional Experience/ Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with AWS environments, including VPC peering, Transit Gateways, Gateway Load Balancers (GWLB), and egress/ingress filtering.
• Demonstrated experience in regulatory frameworks, IAM, encryption, DLP.
• Demonstrated experience with Azure environments, including Azure Virtual Network (VNet), Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN), Azure Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), and egress/ingress filtering.
• Experience with containerization, hands-on experience deploying and managing workloads in Kubernetes environments (knowledge of Service Mesh/Istio preferred).
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting DHCP, DNS, firewalls, and VPN routing across wired and wireless enterprise networks.
• Familiarity with managing secure data transfers and pipeline protocols (SSH, SFTP, HTTPS, REST APIs, and foundational knowledge of cloud data warehouses like Amazon RDS, Bedrock, Redshift, ETL).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with people of all skill levels.
• Understanding of, sensitivity to, and respect for the academic, cultural, and social diversity in the Colgate University community.
• Ability to work outside normal working hours as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering infrastructure as code. Experience automation scripting or deploying infrastructure utilizing tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Git, GitHub, or GitLab.
• Experience operating enterprise-level network hardware, ideally utilizing Aruba Networks and Aruba ClearPass authentication systems.
• Technical proficiency in managing virtualized environments (Hyper-V, VMware) and standard server configurations (Active Directory, Web, and Database servers across Linux and Windows OS).
• Experience with integrating AI APIs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows into existing enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with AI/ML standard frameworks and libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, or Hugging Face.
• Familiarity with managing Palo Alto Networks firewalls and implementing industry-standard security controls.
• Experience scripting relating to managing network infrastructure or servers.
• Knowledge of copper and fiber cabling, TCP/IP, routing, BGP, Palo Alto fir