Job Title: Sr. IT Cloud Infrastructure
Contract to hire Duration: 6 months
Location: New York, NY 10020- Onsite
Pay: $90/hr on w2(Max) and $100/hr-$110/hr on c2c
Must Have:
- AWS / Azure Cloud Architect skills
- Vendor management
- AI Data Platform Enablement.( Managed Services Provider)
This position will lead the transition toward a cloud-first infrastructure model, manage internal engineers and external vendors, and maintain reliable infrastructure services in a highly regulated, 24x7 financial-services environment.
This VP role will also establish the infrastructure foundation for near-term initiatives involving AI-driven development, modern data platforms, enterprise data lake capabilities, and Azure Virtual Desktop.
Responsibilities
- Cloud Strategy and AWS Architecture Define and execute the cloud infrastructure strategy, roadmap, architecture standards, and operating model.
- Own the design of enterprise AWS environments, including Landing Zones, multi-account structures, VPC and connectivity, IAM, security controls, logging, monitoring, resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Lead cloud migration, modernization, re-platforming, and infrastructure transformation programs.
- Remain hands-on in architecture reviews, technical design decisions, proofs of concept, critical incidents, and engineering standards.
- Infrastructure Operations and Governance Lead infrastructure operations supporting mission-critical services in a 24x7 environment.
- Establish governance for cloud security, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, monitoring, incident management, change management, and operational documentation.
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for major infrastructure and cloud incidents.
- Own cloud cost management, forecasting, Eligible to workimization, tagging, and show back / chargeback practices.
- Vendor and Team Leadership Lead and develop cloud, infrastructure, platform, and operations personnel while maintaining clear engineering accountability.
- Manage cloud providers, MSPs, systems integrators, consultants, and strategic technology partners.
- Own vendor performance through contracts, statements of work, SLAs, KPIs, service reviews, financial controls, risk management, and escalations.
- Require vendors to comply with enterprise architecture, information security, regulatory, documentation, and operational standards.
- Azure Virtual Desktop and End-User Computing Provide architecture and operational oversight for Azure Virtual Desktop and related enterprise VDI services.
- Guide design decisions involving Entra ID / Active Directory integration, network and security architecture, FSLogix profile management, golden images, application delivery, capacity, performance, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Manage vendors or MSPs supporting virtual desktop and end-user computing services.AI and Data Platform Enablement Partner with application, data, security, and architecture teams to define cloud infrastructure foundations for AI-driven development.
- Support infrastructure architecture for data lake, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI use cases.
- Evaluate cloud services and engineering patterns that enable secure, scalable, and governed innovation.
- Based on changes in the business work environment, job responsibilities can change, and removed accordingly.
- Additionally, this position will perform other duties as required, and participate in special projects as deemed necessary and appropriate by Management.
Minimum Skills & Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's degree.
- Experience: 8-10 years of enterprise infrastructure, cloud engineering, or architecture experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale AWS environments and serving as an architecture or technical design authority.
- Deep expertise in AWS Landing Zones, multi-account design, networking, IAM, security, monitoring, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
- Proven experience leading cloud migration, modernization, or infrastructure transformation programs.
- Proven ability to manage infrastructure or cloud engineering teams while remaining actively involved in technology
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