Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Windows Server
State Farm · Atlanta, GA · 3 wk ago
Analyst$100k–$160k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Engineer, deploy, maintain, and reimagining enterprise web hosting platforms.
- Provide engineering guidance to support teams using Windows Server, Microsoft IIS, .NET hosting, shared web farms, and content hosting environments.
- Provide engineering guidance to support teams using Linux-based web hosting capabilities, including Apache Tomcat and static content hosting.
- Analyze technical requirements and partner with application teams to develop reliable hosting solutions.
- Improve platform reliability, availability, security, and operational supportability.
- Guide the process to automate infrastructure tasks using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Provide engineering guidance of lifecycle activities, including patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, certificate management, monitoring, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
- Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure, web server, application runtime, middleware, performance, and availability issues.
- Integrate hosting capabilities with enterprise data center, virtualized, Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, support procedures, runbooks, and engineering standards.
- Partner with product teams, security, architecture, operations, vendors, and peer infrastructure teams.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction, platform standards, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Experience in infrastructure engineering, preferably with a focus on Windows Server Hosting, Microsoft IIS, .NET hosting, enterprise web hosting, or application platform support.
- Strong understanding of Windows Server administration, configuration, patching, troubleshooting, and operational support.
- Experience with Microsoft IIS, including application pools, websites, bindings, certificates, authentication, logging, and performance troubleshooting.
- Understanding of .NET hosting, shared web farm patterns, runtime dependencies, and common web application deployment practices.
- Knowledge of networking, DNS, load balancing, certificates, firewall rules, authentication, and web hosting security practices.
- Working knowledge of Azure and AWS, including how public cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, security, monitoring, and hosting patterns integrate with enterprise platforms.
- Experience with scripting and automation, especially PowerShell; experience with Python, Bash, or similar languages is also valuable.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with Linux-based web hosting concepts, including Apache Tomcat, Java runtime support, and static content hosting.