Description

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Requisition Number: 2026S049Posting
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Division: Dean of the Faculty
Department: Information Technology Services - Services and Shared Infrastructure
Wage/Salary Range: $90,000.00-$95,000.00
Department Statement:
Accountabilities:
- Research, implement, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure systems and services.
- Regularly monitor and assess environments to proactively identify and execute necessary improvements.
- Optimize cloud environments for cost, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Maintain knowledge of industry security best practices, standards, and requirements. Understand and apply appropriate security controls, privacy concepts and methods, and assist with security incident response.
- Maintain and track an accurate inventory of systems, equipment, and services.
- Proactively identify, analyze, diagnose, document, and resolve technical issues and requests within a centralized ticketing system. Research complex issues to find effective resolutions to technical problems.
- Maintain clear operational documentation and contribute to the team’s knowledge of cloud best practices.
- Acquire and maintain technical knowledge through self-paced training, courses, seminars, and other professional development methods.
- Work cooperatively and communicatively with colleagues, partners, and customers.
- Manage technical assignments and maintain key relationships with student workers and/or interns. Provide mentorship, training, and leadership to student workers and interns as necessary.
- Perform other related duties and special projects as assigned to assist the department in achieving and maintaining its core mission.
- Participate in the team’s after-hours on-call rotation, one week per team member, to respond to issues outside of normal business hours.
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 firewalls, and cloud networking infrastructure.
- Higher Education Experience. Prior experience working within a college or university IT ecosystem.
- Applicable cloud architecture, networking & infrastructure, and/or IT certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate / Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional / Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Aruba Certified Professional, Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA)).
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (or related field) alongside 3–5 years of dedicated cloud infrastructure experience (equivalent combinations of education and experience welcomed). Master’s degree in a related field preferred.
Other Information
Work Schedule:
Job Open Date: 06/29/2026
Job Close Date: 8/9/2026
Open Until Filled Yes
Special Instructions Summary
To view the full job posting and apply for this position, go to: https://careers.colgate.edu/postings/6926
The Department of Campus Safety will provide upon request a copy of Colgate’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report. This report includes statistics as reported to the United States Department of Education for the previous three years concerning reported: 1. crimes that occurred on-campus; in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by Colgate University; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus and 2. fires that occurred in student housing facilities. The report also includes institutional policies concerning campus security and fire safety, such as policies concerning sexual assault, life safety systems, and other related matters. You may access the report from the Clery Compliance web page at: https://www.colgate.edu/about/offices-centers-institutes/dean-college/campus-safety-staff/clery-compliance. Printed copies of this report may be obtained upon request from the Department of Campus Safety via e-mail at [email protected].
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