Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional

Job summary

The Core Infrastructure Engineer supports and improves on-premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring critical systems remain reliable, observable, and secure. The role administers VMware environments and servers, storage, and backup platforms; maintains cloud infrastructure; improves Datadog monitoring and alerting; and handles patching, incident response, and infrastructure projects. It also automates operations using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a similar role.
• Hands-on experience administering VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server and/or Linux administration.
• Experience with enterprise storage, including SAN, NAS, RAID, snapshots, replication, and capacity planning.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Datadog or a comparable monitoring platform, including monitors, dashboards, alerts, and reports.
• Experience with patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and incident response.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Ability to lead infrastructure projects and coordinate work across technical teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Willingness to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.
• Preferred experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Datadog APIs, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Preferred familiarity with Active Directory, identity and access management, Microsoft 365, hybrid-cloud environments, cloud migrations, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments.
• Support physical and virtual servers, Windows and Linux systems, enterprise storage, and backup platforms.
• Maintain infrastructure across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Create and maintain infrastructure and application monitors, dashboards, and actionable alerts in Datadog or comparable tools.
• Analyze metrics, logs, events, and performance trends; improve monitoring coverage and reduce alert noise.
• Perform operating system and infrastructure patching, upgrades, lifecycle management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Respond to infrastructure incidents during scheduled on-call rotations and conduct root-cause analysis.
• Lead infrastructure projects from planning and implementation through testing, documentation, and operational handoff.
• Monitor infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, asset information, and disaster-recovery plans.
• Automate operational tasks using scripting, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Contribute to architecture planning, technology roadmaps, budgeting, and infrastructure strategy.
• Share technical knowledge and guide team members.

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Relocation