Principal Infrastructure Engineer / IT (PTX2026)

RealManage is a prominent national firm recognized on the Inc. 5000 list, operating across 16 states and Washington DC. The Principal Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for defining the infrastructure strategy and technology standards that support operations, while also implementing designs using Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud practices.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the organization’s infrastructure strategy, establishing reference architectures, design patterns, and technology standards that ensure consistency, security, and scalability across all environments
• Evaluate the broader technology landscape across the enterprise, identifying interdependencies between systems and platforms and developing integration strategies that reduce complexity and technical debt
• Develop technology roadmaps for infrastructure services, aligning technical direction with business objectives, growth plans, and M&A activity
• Create and maintain governance frameworks for infrastructure decisions, including guidelines for platform selection, service adoption, and architectural review processes
• Conduct technology evaluations and make recommendations grounded in methodology—assessing trade-offs around cost, performance, security, and operational complexity rather than defaulting to any single vendor or toolset
• Lead technical due diligence efforts for M&A integrations, assessing acquired infrastructure environments and developing migration and consolidation strategies that align with enterprise standards
• Architect, design, and implement cloud infrastructure solutions across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure), with an emphasis on reliability, security, and cost-efficiency
• Champion and advance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep, ensuring repeatable, version-controlled, and auditable infrastructure deployments
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD (or equivalent platforms) to enable automated testing, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning
• Define and enforce best practices for cloud networking, identity and access management (IAM), security groups, and virtual network architecture
• Develop and maintain containerization strategies using Docker, supporting development and production workloads
• Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability standards to ensure proactive identification and resolution of infrastructure issues
• Collaborate cross-functionally with DevOps, security, application, and business teams to ensure infrastructure capabilities are aligned with organizational needs
• Author and maintain comprehensive technical documentation including architecture decision records, reference designs, runbooks, and standard operating procedures
• Mentor and coach systems administrators and engineers, providing technical guidance, architectural thinking, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing to elevate the team’s capabilities and develop more strategic contributors
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis, driving continuous improvement in infrastructure resilience and feeding lessons learned back into architectural standards

Requirements:

• Define and maintain the organization's infrastructure strategy, establishing reference architectures, design patterns, and technology standards that ensure consistency, security, and scalability across all environments
• Evaluate the broader technology landscape across the enterprise, identifying interdependencies between systems and platforms and developing integration strategies that reduce complexity and technical debt
• Develop technology roadmaps for infrastructure services, aligning technical direction with business objectives, growth plans, and M&A activity
• Create and maintain governance frameworks for infrastructure decisions, including guidelines for platform selection, service adoption, and architectural review processes
• Conduct technology evaluations and make recommendations grounded in methodology—assessing trade-offs around cost, performance, security, and operational complexity rather than defaulting to any single vendor or toolset
• Lead technical due diligence efforts for M&A integrations, assessing acquired infrastructure environments and developing migration and consolidation strategies that align with enterprise standards
• Architect, design, and implement cloud infrastructure solutions across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure), with an emphasis on reliability, security, and cost-efficiency
• Champion and advance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep, ensuring repeatable, version-controlled, and auditable infrastructure deployments
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD (or equivalent platforms) to enable automated testing, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning
• Define and enforce best practices for cloud networking, identity and access management (IAM), security groups, and virtual network architecture
• Develop and maintain containerization strategies using Docker, supporting development and production workloads
• Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability standards to ensure proactive identification and resolution of infrastructure issues
• Collaborate cross-functionally with DevOps, security, application, and business teams to ensure infrastructure capabilities are aligned with organizational needs
• Author and maintain comprehensive technical documentation including architecture decision records, reference designs, runbooks, and standard operating procedures
• Mentor and coach systems administrators and engineers, providing technical guidance, architectural thinking, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing to elevate the team's capabilities and develop more strategic contributors
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis, driving continuous improvement in infrastructure resilience and feeding lessons learned back into architectural standards