Infrastructure Engineer

Role summary

• Lead capacity planning and optimization for Azure services supporting a highly regulated, high-impact cloud program.
• Ensure resilient headroom across compute, storage, network, and platform services, with strong documentation/evidence for compliance.
• Partner closely with SRE and engineering teams to operationalize autoscaling, performance baselines, and governed change control.

What you'll do

• Own the capacity management operating model (planning, modeling, forecasting, monitoring, tuning, governance).
• Build and maintain capacity models for key Azure services (AKS/VM scale sets/App Service, databases, storage, messaging, networking, Key Vault/HSM).
• Define buffer standards (headroom %, N+1/N+2 where appropriate, runway-in-weeks) and validate against demand, failover, and maintenance scenarios.
• Implement and tune autoscaling strategies with guardrails (quotas/limits, throttling) using SLI/SLO-based triggers (latency, error rate, saturation).
• Analyze utilization/performance trends and translate insights into actions (tuning, architectural changes, reservations/savings plans, cost optimization).
• Forecast demand from roadmaps/release plans; translate forecasts into capacity plans with lead times and runway targets.
• Participate in change governance (CAB) as the capacity representative; ensure capacity/security impacts are documented for gated approvals.
• Create and maintain compliance evidence (control narratives, continuous monitoring artifacts, POA&M support as applicable).
• Enforce U.S.-only region and data residency constraints (processing, storage, logging, backups, DR, and support operations).
• Validate DR/failover capacity (warm/cold/hot) so disaster events can be supported without degrading steady-state performance.
• Define and publish KPIs/reporting: utilization, saturation, headroom %, runway weeks, scaling efficacy, quota consumption, DR readiness, and cost-to-performance efficiency.

Required experience

• 10-12+ years in infrastructure capacity / performance engineering across compute, storage, network, and platform services.
• Experience working in regulated environments and producing audit-ready documentation (FedRAMP High familiarity a plus).
• Strong analytical and communication skills (turn telemetry into clear decisions and stakeholder-ready reporting).
• Strong change/config management discipline; comfortable coordinating across engineering, operations, and finance.
• Solid Azure knowledge (identity, networking, policies, RBAC, SQL/storage, etc.).

Technical skills (desired)

• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Metrics, Advisor, Cost Management, reservations/savings plans, quotas/limits.
• Scaling and performance engineering: AKS/VMSS/App Service, autoscaling policies, k6/JMeter, Prometheus/Grafana.
• Storage/database performance planning: IOPS/throughput, tiering, indexing, connection management.
• Networking/security capacity planning: Azure Firewall, NSGs, private endpoints, Bastion; throughput/latency planning.
• Key management/crypto services: Key Vault, managed HSM; key lifecycle capacity considerations.
• IaC/config management: Terraform/Bicep/ARM; CI/CD with gated approvals.
• Governance: Azure Policy/initiatives for configuration baselines and region restrictions; evidence artifact production.

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