Description We are offering a contract-to-hire employment opportunity for a Cloud Engineer in San Antonio, Texas. This role is within the IT industry and involves the implementation, maintenance, and support of both internal and external customer environments. This includes a variety of responsibilities from managing cloud infrastructure to active directory. Responsibilities: Responsible for the implementation, maintenance and support of the company and its subsidiaries’ systems consisting of cloud infrastructure, physical servers, backup systems, virtual systems, active directory, and others. This role includes, engineering, monitoring, maintaining and improving system performance and capacity, and planning for future expansion requirements. The Cloud Engineer designs, implements, troubleshoots, analyzes and maintains the IT Infrastructure of internal and external customer environments; including cloud infrastructure, Windows server administration, virtualization, performance tuning, backup and restore. The Cloud Engineer identifies, researches, and resolves technical problems. The Cloud Engineer will act in conjunction with other ITS team members to design and maintain the systems architecture Essential Tasks + This role includes, monitoring, maintaining and improving system performance, capacity, and planning for future expansion/reduction requirements and research possible budgetary planning needs. + The Cloud Engineer works closely with the Information Technology team(s) and liaise with vendors as well as offers first point of escalation for System Engineers. + Perform capacity and resource planning, assess risks with recommendations, design and implement Infrastructure System environments. + Plan and execute Infrastructure upgrades and migration projects with existing hardware and/or software. Proactively anticipate, prevent and eliminate data center problems and risks by identifying and creating efficient fixes for any security risks, patches/vulnerabilities, etc. + Provide Infrastructure services in all areas needed: Storage Systems, storage networking, backup and restore systems, operating systems, system security, directory services, server virtualization, system and network monitoring, application installation and configuration, system or application deployment techniques. Requirements + Requires seven or more years of IT experience. + Requires five or more years of active directory administration with a minimum of one year of experience with Azure AD (Entra). + Requires three years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. + Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure using industry‐standard best practices. + Intermediate‐level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in Cloud infrastructure. + Experience with migrating on premise compute to cloud infrastructure. + Ability to configure, install, and maintain hardware and software for physical and virtualized environments (VMware or Nutanix), Windows 10 desktops/laptops, and peripherals. Technology Doesn't Change the World, People Do.® Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles. Robert Half works to put you in the best position to succeed. We provide access to top jobs, competitive compensation and benefits, and free online training. Stay on top of every opportunity - whenever you choose - even on the go. Download the Robert Half app (https://www.roberthalf.com/us/en/mobile-app) and get 1-tap apply, notifications of AI-matched jobs, and much more. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information. © 2025 Robert Half. An Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veterans. By clicking “Apply Now,” you’re agreeing to Robert Half’s Terms of Use (https://www.roberthalf.com/us/en/terms) .