Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Published 06.16.2026

Company : Safran Job field : IT Location : Irving , Texas , France Contract type : Permanent Contract duration : Full-time Required degree : Bachelors Degree Required experience : More than 3 years Professional status : Professional, Engineer & Manager Salary range : TBD ITAR : ITAR Controlled position

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Published 06.16.2026

Job Description

The Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for the day-to-day operation of Safran USAs hybrid infrastructure across defined primary domains, while supporting peers in adjacent areas. The role sits within a small, highly capable team and operates within a CMMC Level 2 / ITAR-regulated shared services environment supporting multiple Safran aerospace subsidiaries. The right candidate owns their domains with discipline, supports CMMC compliance activities operationally, and grows into cloud operations as Safran USA expands its AWS GovCloud footprint.

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

1. Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering

Design, implement, and maintain Safran USAs hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises datacenter systems, AWS GovCloud, and Microsoft 365 GCC High. Develop and maintain architecture documentation, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks for all systems in scope. Ensure high availability, security, and performance of critical systems in a shared services environment supporting multiple Safran aerospace subsidiaries.

2. Microsoft 365 GCC High Administration

Administer Safran USAs Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) tenant across the full suite of services - Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Entra ID, and Intune. Responsibilities include identity governance, Conditional Access policy management, MFA enforcement, and endpoint management consistent with CMMC and ITAR requirements.

Configure and maintain Purview compliance center - audit logging, DLP policies, retention labels, and sensitivity labels. Administer Defender for Office 365 threat policies and alert routing. Support Microsoft 365 GCC High licensing and governance.

3. AWS / AWS GovCloud Administration

Support the operation and progressive build-out of Safran USAs AWS Landing Zone, currently under construction. Manage EC2, VPC, IAM roles and policies, S3, CloudWatch, and Security Groups within a GovCloud regulated environment. Implement cloud security best practices.

Contribute to workload migration planning as Safran USA transitions on-premises systems to AWS over the 2026-2027 timeframe.

4. Virtualization & Server Administration

Administer Safran USAs VMware vSphere / ESXi environment across the datacenter - VM provisioning, snapshot governance, host health monitoring, resource allocation, and patching. Manage Windows Server environments including configuration baselines and lifecycle management. Work alongside the Systems Engineer to maintain operational continuity and support disaster recovery exercises.

5. Security Systems Administration

Primary - Own from Day 1

• Privileged Access Management - administer Safran USAs PAM platform- vault structure, privileged session management, session recording, credential vaulting, access reviews, and break-glass procedures.
• Cisco DUO Federal MFA - administer user enrollment, device management, policy enforcement, AD integration.

6. Monitoring & Systems Management

Contribute to infrastructure health monitoring using SolarWinds NPM/SAM alongside the Systems Engineer. Review alerts, triage operational issues, and escalate appropriately. Support SolarWinds SEM log review and alerting. Maintain operational awareness of server, application, and cloud performance across owned domains.

7. Compliance & Governance

8. Backup & Disaster Recovery Administration

But what else? (advantages, specific features, etc.)

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of hands-on enterprise infrastructure engineering experience across two or more of the primary domains listed above.
• Privileged access management platform -CyberArk, BeyondTrust, or equivalent. Must be able to describe vault structure, session recording, and access review processes personally configured.
• Enterprise MFA platform - hands-on administration of Cisco DUO, Okta, Azure MFA, or equivalent. Must be able to describe policy configuration and AD integration personally managed.
• Microsoft 365 administration - Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Purview, Defender. GCC High experience preferred.
• AWS hands-on experience - EC2, IAM roles and policies, VPC, S3, CloudWatch. Must describe specific configurations personally built or managed.
• VMware vSphere / ESXi operational management
• Windows Server and Active Directory administration - GPO, DNS, identity management.
• Enterprise backup and disaster recovery operations - backup job management, restore execution, and DR testing.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and discipline to follow controlled change management processes.

Company Information

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazines "Worlds best companies 2024" ranking.

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