Infrastructure Engineer Senior - VMware Cloud Foundation & Infrastructure Automation

Associated Bank is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, automate, and support secure, reliable, and efficient infrastructure. The role focuses on VMware private cloud, infrastructure automation, operational resilience, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Design and automate private cloud infrastructure and technology solutions that support reliable, scalable applications
• Manage incident and problem resolution by troubleshooting connectivity, infrastructure, and communication issues and identifying root causes
• Automate testing, configuration, release, and deployment processes using infrastructure-as-code and modern DevOps practices
• Monitor infrastructure capacity, availability, and performance to identify issues and recommend improvements
• Maintain hardware and software inventories, network diagrams, technical documentation, and system records to support ongoing operations
• Partner with service providers, technology teams, business partners, and leadership to resolve issues and strengthen infrastructure solutions
• Support business resilience efforts by maintaining disaster recovery documentation and participating in Business Resumption Readiness testing
• Coach and mentor engineers through knowledge sharing, technical guidance, and training while helping shape technology direction
• Fully complies with all applicable enterprise policies and procedures
• Acts in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in training materials, including but not limited to Bank Secrecy Act
• Responsible for reporting suspicious activity to Financial Intelligence
• Responsible to report all customer complaints as prescribed and procedure violations to management or HR
• Responsible to report ethical concerns as needed to Associated Bank’s anonymous Ethics Hotline

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 8+ years of experience with the VMware portfolio, including VCF, SRM, vSAN, NSX, and HCX
• 5+ years of experience with Terraform Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management such as Ansible, GitHub Actions, and container solutions
• 5+ years of experience with PowerShell, HashiCorp HCL, RESTful APIs, YAML/JSON, and PowerCLI
• 2+ years of experience with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, PKI, and Group Policy
• 2+ years of experience with SAN arrays, NAS, Cisco UCS, Dell PowerFlex, and Pure Storage
• 2+ years of experience supporting Windows Server and Red Hat operating systems
• VMware VCF, Microsoft, HashiCorp, Ansible, or other relevant vendor certifications