Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Role Overview

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Lead architecture discussions and provide recommendations for system improvements, modernization, and optimization.
• Partner directly with the Senior Director of IT to define infrastructure roadmap, standards, and best practices.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies to enhance system performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Administer and support Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, including patching, performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Administer and support enterprise Linux environments (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS), including patching, performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Administer and support enterprise Windows environments, including patching, performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Manage physical and virtual server environments, including VMware and related platforms.
• Oversee system provisioning, configuration management, and automation initiatives.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting across OS, storage, compute, and networking layers.
• Own escalation-level support for production incidents, acting as a senior technical resource for complex issues.
• Monitor system health, capacity, and performance; proactively identify and remediate risks.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventative measures to reduce recurring incidents.
• Manage network connectivity and operations including firewall, enterprise load balancers and all network connectivity (e.g. Palo Alto, F5, GCP Networking).
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness across critical systems.
• Support backup, replication, and failover strategies.
• Act as a key liaison between Infrastructure, Development, and Security teams to support application performance and deployment needs.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to skill development across the team.
• Collaborate with vendors and service providers to resolve issues and optimize services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in systems engineering, infrastructure, or related roles.
• Strong expertise in Linux and Windows system administration in enterprise environments.
• Deep experience with server infrastructure, virtualization (VMware preferred), and cloud operations.
• Proven experience in infrastructure design and architecture.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Prometheus, or similar).
• Experience with automation and scripting (e.g., Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform) strongly preferred.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Firewalls
• Google Cloud Platform
• Linux
• Prometheus
• Python
• Splunk
• Switching
• Terraform
• VMware