Hybrid Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize hybrid infrastructure across Nutanix/VMware platforms, AWS, and Azure cloud services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across multi-account environments. Lead modernization and governance initiatives to advance hybrid cloud maturity. - 30%
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to provide expert hybrid architecture guidance, create detailed documentation and diagrams, and influence infrastructure strategy for enterprise applications. - 20%
• Develop and enforce infrastructure standards and governance policies across on-prem, AWS, and Azure environments, including IAM, tagging, guardrails, logging, monitoring, and compliance frameworks. - 15%
• Lead automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) initiatives, leveraging tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager to streamline deployments and enforce governance. - 10%
• Provide Tier 3 support for hybrid and cloud infrastructure, performing root-cause analysis for complex issues and driving long-term remediation strategies. - 10%
• Oversee operational excellence, including patching, monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost optimization for Nutanix/VMware, AWS, and Azure platforms. - 10%
• Mentor team members and champion best practices for hybrid cloud adoption, automation, and security across the organization. - 5%

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting and implementing enterprise infrastructure, with strong emphasis on Nutanix/VMware hyperconverged platforms (required) and AWS cloud services (preferred), along with proficiency in several of the following:
• Virtualization/hyperconverged platforms (Nutanix AHV/KVM and/or VMware) - Required
• Active Directory and identity integration (AWS Identity Center, SSO, directory services)
• Enterprise OS deployment and support (Windows and/or Linux)
• AWS workload deployment, multi-account management, and cloud operations (IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail) - Preferred
• DNS and PKI infrastructure
• Server and storage deployment and support
• Azure cloud services (Azure AD, Virtual Machines, Networking, Storage) - Optional/Preferred
• Hands-on experience with cloud migration, modernization efforts, or hybrid cloud transformation projects.
• Experience leading projects end-to-end, including design, planning, execution, and documentation.
• Strong automation and scripting experience, including PowerShell and Python; Terraform or CloudFormation highly preferred; CI/CD familiarity a plus.
• Ability to manage multiple complex hybrid infrastructure projects, prioritize tasks, and deliver independently or collaboratively.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving abilities, especially in hybrid cloud environments.

Benefits

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA's 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor's appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.

• Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.