Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for managing various systems and platforms using tools such as Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and GitOps. This role focuses on support, administration, and maintenance of a planned production platform supporting multiple systems that will leverage the platform.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer works on a small team to assist clients in becoming leading agencies in leveraging modern cloud technology. These responsibilities align with Nava’s mission: Be Active Stewards, Pursue the Root Cause, Think Long-Term, Build Together, Inclusion is Essential, and Progress Takes Work.

What You’ll Do

• Establish and manage a code-first platform, automated provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of infrastructure and platforms.
• Assess and/or build the existing Azure environment, infrastructure dependencies, and modernization requirements to inform the target architecture.
• Act as a trusted advisor or key personnel in a client-facing role, responsible for driving and executing decisions on architecture design and build for IT infrastructure and platforms in partnership with the client.
• Design the Azure tenant structure, including management groups, subscriptions, landing zones, networking, and resource organization.
• Define cloud architecture standards, naming conventions, tagging strategies, etc., and document them in architecture decision records (ADRs).
• Advise on identity and access management, including Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, and least-privilege access models.
• Develop secure networking and connectivity patterns between Azure, on-premises systems, federal partners, and external integrations.
• Adhere to and/or define Infrastructure-as-Code standards, reusable modules, repository structure, and CI/CD workflows for development teams.
• Produce architecture documentation, operational guidance, governance artifacts, and platform runbooks to support long-term maintainability.