Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional

Job summary

The Core Infrastructure Engineer maintains and improves on-premises, virtualized, and cloud infrastructure to keep critical systems reliable, observable, and secure. The role administers VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter; supports Windows and Linux servers, enterprise storage, backups, and cloud platforms; and improves Datadog monitoring through actionable monitors, dashboards, and alerts. It also involves patching, incident response, infrastructure project delivery, automation, disaster recovery, and architecture planning.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a similar role.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Strong Windows Server and/or Linux administration knowledge.
• Experience with enterprise storage concepts, including SAN, NAS, RAID, snapshots, replication, and capacity planning.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog or a comparable monitoring and observability platform.
• Knowledge 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.
• Willingness to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot VMware environments and server infrastructure.
• Support Windows and Linux systems, enterprise storage, backup platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
• Create and maintain Datadog monitors, dashboards, alerts, and reports; analyze telemetry and reduce alert noise.
• Perform patching, upgrades, lifecycle management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and resolve infrastructure incidents, including root-cause analysis.
• Lead infrastructure projects from requirements and planning through implementation, testing, documentation, and handoff.
• Manage infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, asset information, and disaster recovery plans.
• Automate operational tasks and contribute to infrastructure architecture and cloud strategy.

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Relocation