Lead Engineer - Infrastructure

Job Title:

Lead Engineer - Infrastructure

In office Location:

Orange, CT

Reports to:

Manager of Infrastructure

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from:

$125,766.00 to $157,208

Job Summary

The Lead Engineer – IT Infrastructure is a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and modern platform engineering practices. The incumbent plays a key role in designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift, and a passion for automation and operational excellence.

The Lead Engineer – Infrastructure reports into the Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

- Architects, implements, and manages containerized workloads using Kubernetes and OpenShift across hybrid cloud environments.

- Leads cloud infrastructure initiatives in AWS and Azure, ensuring scalability, performance, and cost optimization.

- Develops and maintains infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.

- Implements and manages monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack to ensure platform health and performance.

- Collaborates with cross-functional teams and vendors to ensure infrastructure solutions align with business goals and compliance requirements.

- Defines and enforces operational standards, availability metrics, and performance baselines for infrastructure platforms.

- Conducts root cause analysis and risk mitigation for infrastructure-related incidents and vulnerabilities.

- Provides technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers and contribute to strategic infrastructure planning.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

- Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift).

- Strong understanding of Linux and Windows Server environments.

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

- Expertise in ServiceNow, including API integration for automation and workflow enhancements.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Demonstrated ability to lead complex infrastructure projects and manage vendor relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

- Prior experience working in a law firms, corporate legal department, insurance company or other setting related to the investigation and assessment of property and casualty claims field.

Competencies

- Growth & Continuous Improvement

- Initiative & Change

- Focused on Results

- Customer Centric (internal and/or External)

- Communication

- Collaboration

- Leadership (people managers/leaders)

Disclaimer

Avangrid is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Avangrid is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, gender, gender identification, gender expression, race, color, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, genetic information, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or other characteristics or conditions protected by law.

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Company

AVANGRID MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC.

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Job Posting End Date

September-30-2025