Sr Infrastructure Design Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Independently plan, architect, and deliver complex infrastructure designs supporting network, compute, telephony, platform, middleware, and database solutions.
• Own technology currency, lifecycle management, and capacity planning to ensure infrastructure capabilities consistently meet established SLAs.
• Define and maintain hardware and software performance standards to ensure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Lead and contribute to software and hardware licensing, financial planning, and capacity initiatives to ensure efficient adoption and operation of datacenter technologies.
• Proactively consult with IT partners, business stakeholders, and vendors impacted by network and data center infrastructure decisions.
• Execute detailed infrastructure designs for large-scale and complex initiatives in collaboration with IT stakeholders, service owners, and delivery partners.
• Ensure operational readiness through engineering, planning, coordination, and execution of performance tuning, system support, incident and problem resolution, installations, and upgrades.
• Provide expert-level guidance and hands-on consultation during complex production incidents to support rapid resolution and system stability.
• Develop and maintain standardized engineering guidelines, procedures, and schedules to streamline solution delivery and improve datacenter operational efficiency.
• Build strong partnerships across the enterprise architecture community to maintain technical roadmaps and contribute to infrastructure strategies and standards.
• Collaborate closely with vendors to ensure delivered infrastructure solutions align with architectural intent and design specifications.
• Present new and emerging technology overviews to IT and enterprise leadership across a variety of leadership forums.
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers by providing technical direction, design guidance, and knowledge sharing as needed.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
• 5+ years of experience in related field.
• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field.
• Bonus Points:
• Familiarity with Tomcat, Spring Boot, & WebSphere Application Server.
• Familiarity with AI Tools, Procedures, and Methods (CoPilot, Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI).
• Familiarity with scripting tools (Perl, Korn Shell Scripting, Python, and various languages).

Where You’ll Work

Our Hybrid Flex approach is built on presence with a purpose – giving you flexibility to work remotely with intentional in-person connection – that supports a workplace that’s flexible, connected, and future focused. In a Hybrid-Flex role, you’ll work in the office at least two days a week for collaboration and connection. In a Remote Flex role, you’ll work virtually, with a few in-office visits each year for meaningful moments that matter. Whether your role is Hybrid Flex or Remote Flex depends on the nature of the work and distance from our Durham headquarters. We welcome candidates from outside the local area and in any states listed on this job posting. Onsite expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community
• Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs
• Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance
• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education
• 401k match including an annual company contribution
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Skills

• Data Center Design
• Data Center Infrastructure Design
• Data Center Networks
• Data Center Operations
• Data Infrastructure
• Information Technology (IT) Services
• Information Technology Architecture
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• IT Service Management (ITSM)
• Network Infrastructures

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