5 days ago
Columbia, SC, USASenior
Base Salary
$105k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, optimize, and manage cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and hybrid environments.
- Translate client business requirements into scalable, cost-effective, repeatable cloud solutions.
- Lead client onboarding and cloud migration projects while maintaining security, compliance, and service continuity.
- Monitor and troubleshoot client cloud environments, respond to incidents, and manage escalations under contractual SLAs.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code templates, deployment pipelines, and automation scripts.
- Manage multi-tenant cloud environments with secure resource separation, cost tracking, and compliance controls.
- Maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
- Support pre-sales through technical scoping, effort estimation, and proposal development.
- Advise clients on cloud modernization, cost optimization, security practices, and strategic improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure in a managed services, MSP, or consulting environment.
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform, with multi-cloud or hybrid experience preferred.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation, Oracle Resource Manager, or Ansible.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, and monitoring.
- Experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization.
- Experience with ITIL, service management frameworks, and MSP-specific tools such as ServiceNow.
- Strong client communication, interpersonal, project management, troubleshooting, and mentoring abilities.
- Cloud architecture certifications, CISSP, Zero Trust Architecture, TIC 3.0, and exposure to cloud AI/ML tooling are preferred.
Benefits
- Health insurance, paid leave, retirement benefits, and learning and development opportunities are offered.
- The role is remote, may require periodic travel to customer facilities, and requires the candidate to be within commuting distance of Columbia, South Carolina.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About SMX
SMX provides cloud, cyber, data analytics, and C5ISR engineering services to U.S. federal agencies and commercial enterprises, delivering systems integration and managed solutions. The company operates from Hollywood, Maryland, and was formed by unifying several legacy firms (including Smartronix, Datastrong, and Creoal) under the SMX name in 2021; it is backed by OceanSound Partners. Customers span the Department of Defense, civilian public sector, and Fortune 1000 organizations.