Cloud Infrastructure Manager

Overview

A Pacific Northwest–based organization is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead a high-impact team responsible for Azure platform engineering, SRE/observability, reliability, and cloud cost optimization. This role will oversee engineers supporting production systems at scale, with a heavy focus on incident management, monitoring, MTTR reduction, and Azure expansion. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep Azure expertise, strong people leadership skills, and experience operating mission-critical cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of Cloud, Platform, and SRE engineers supporting Azure-based infrastructure
• Own reliability, observability, and production health across applications, servers, and networks
• Drive incident response, outage management, root cause analysis, and MTTR reduction initiatives
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and security teams to scale Azure adoption and best practices
• Oversee cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps), including budgeting, forecasting, and spend governance
• Guide platform strategy across Azure Landing Zones, governance, networking, identity, and monitoring
• Ensure alignment with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and cloud reliability standards
• Provide technical leadership while remaining close to the engineering work when needed

Tech Stack

Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure

• Azure Landing Zones (Azure LZs), Azure CLI, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
• Azure Container Registry (ACR), Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Azure Advisor, Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Azure governance, networking, identity, and monitoring

Observability & SRE Tooling:

• Datadog, SolarWinds (or similar enterprise monitoring platforms)
• Logging, metrics, alerting, incident management, production system monitoring

Infrastructure & Reliability:

• SRE / Platform Engineering practices
• Incident response, outage management, MTTR reduction

Cloud Cost & Optimization:

• FinOps (cloud spend management, budgeting, optimization)

Infrastructure as Code & Automation (team oversight):

• Terraform (core), Azure-native IaC concepts