Senior Engineer, IT Infrastructure Engineering (Data Center)
About the role
The Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the design, engineering, implementation, deployment, documentation, testing, and ongoing capacity planning of infrastructure solutions, such as hardware, software, and systems configuration solutions. The individual in this role is expected to think strategically, drive long-term infrastructure improvements, influence technical roadmap decisions, and handle critical, company-wide outages.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable distributed systems
- Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to measure and ensure system health
- Architect and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, safe, and repeatable software delivery
- Reduce manual, repetitive work by writing code and automation scripts using languages like Python, PowerShell, or Java to improve efficiency and system reliability
- Serve as the technical lead for hybrid infrastructure, managing the full lifecycle of on-prem and cloud-based resources
- Develop the strategic roadmap for monitoring and observability across the hybrid environment
- Analyze system resource usage to forecast and manage capacity, ensuring systems handle traffic growth
- Mentor junior team members, conduct code reviews, and promote SRE best practices across the organization
- Maintain a high-security baseline for all platform services, ensuring compliance with SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or CIS Benchmarks where applicable
Requirements
- Deep expertise and hands-on experience in multiple domains: Operating Systems (Windows and Linux), Enterprise storage, Backup (Veeam /Other solutions), Virtualization (Nutanix), hyper-converged systems, networking and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Strong proficiency in Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, DNS, VPN, SMTP)
- Experience in Security practices (SSL/TLS, SSH, encryption, LDAP)
- Experience in implementing configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible)
- Design and build experience in orchestration using Cloudbolt / Rundeck
- Expertise in building and maintaining code-driven infrastructure using Terraform for provisioning, combined with Python, Shell, and PowerShell for advanced scripting and operational automation
- Experience evaluating and integrating AI-driven tools into existing IT infrastructure workflows to optimize operational efficiency and enhance automated processes
- Proven ability to lead infrastructure projects from design through deployment
- Experience building and managing physical infrastructure in on-prem or hybrid environments
- Experience providing technical guidance to external vendors and partners
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent skills in communication, documentation, and mentoring others
Qualifications
Industry certifications such as Microsoft, Redhat, Nutanix, VMware, Backup / Storage solution / Cisco, or security-related credentials are a plus.
Benefits
Travel - limited 10% Location - Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in the ATLANTA office. This expectation may be adjusted with the changing needs of the business.
Pay
The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.