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Senior Compute & Cloud Engineer
Lifted, an Upwork Company™ · Monterrey, NL, Mexico
About The Role
This opportunity is ideal for experienced infrastructure and cloud professionals who enjoy building and improving enterprise platforms at scale.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade Windows Server, VMware, and Microsoft Azure environments.
- Develop and maintain Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) solutions, including hybrid identity architectures.
- Design and support Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments.
- Create and maintain platform standards, architecture documentation, and implementation frameworks.
- Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, cloud adoption projects, and technology refresh programs.
- Own backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies using Veeam Backup & Replication.
- Develop and validate recovery procedures to ensure platform resilience and operational readiness.
- Implement secure-by-design principles and support vulnerability management initiatives.
- Apply identity and access management best practices, including RBAC, conditional access, and privileged access controls.
- Build automation solutions for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and operational validation.
- Improve platform observability through monitoring, logging, and performance analytics.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and support strategic infrastructure initiatives.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, virtualization, cloud engineering, or related disciplines.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Windows Server
- VMware vSphere
- Active Directory
- Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure platforms.
- Strong understanding of identity management, authentication, and access control frameworks.
- Experience supporting distributed, multi-site, or enterprise-scale environments.
- Ability to create architecture documentation, technical standards, and platform roadmaps.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments.
- PowerShell scripting, APIs, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
- Microsoft, VMware, or Azure certifications.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based operating models.
- Experience supporting cloud migrations, infrastructure transformations, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), or large-scale modernization projects.
- Experience working in manufacturing or highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale infrastructure and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Strategic platform engineering role with significant ownership and influence on technology direction.
- Collaborative environment working alongside Infrastructure, Security, and Operations teams.
- Focus on architecture, automation, modernization, and platform reliability.
- Exposure to hybrid cloud technologies, identity services, virtualization, and enterprise resiliency programs.
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