Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Position Summary:

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of enterprise infrastructure platforms and services. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning compute, virtualization, storage, networking, public/private cloud, operating systems, automation, and supporting infrastructure services.

The ideal candidate can translate business and technical requirements into secure, resilient, scalable solutions and take those solutions from architecture and detailed design through implementation and operational handoff.

Essential Functions:

• Architect, design, implement, and maintain enterprise infrastructure across data center, public cloud, and private cloud environments.
• Develop technical architectures and detailed designs addressing availability, scalability, performance, security, connectivity, and disaster recovery.
• Design and support enterprise Layer 2/Layer 3 networking, including VLANs, VRFs, routing, BGP, segmentation, and resilient network architectures.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot firewall security policies, security zones, NAT, VPNs, and network access controls.
• Design and support connectivity between data centers, offices, cloud environments, remote sites, and service providers.
• Engineer and support compute, virtualization, storage, operating systems, and container platforms.
• Develop infrastructure automation using scripting, APIs, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Promote repeatable, declarative, and Git-based approaches to infrastructure configuration and deployment.
• Design and maintain highly available infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and observability solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex issues spanning systems, storage, networking, cloud, security, and applications; perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent solutions.
• Develop infrastructure standards, reference architectures, technical diagrams, implementation plans, and operational documentation.
• Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations based on technical requirements, security, cost, complexity, and operational impact.
• Lead technical initiatives and design reviews while providing mentorship and technical guidance to other engineers.
• Collaborate with security, application, database, development, architecture, and business teams to deliver infrastructure solutions.

Skills:

• Analytical - Synthesizes complex or diverse information; Collects and researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data; Designs workflows and procedures.
• Mathematical - Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute ratio, rate, and percent to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Works well in a group problem solving situations.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Project Management - Communicates changes and progress to projects assigned; Completes projects on time.
• Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; Sets goals and objectives.
• Technical Skills - Pursues training and development opportunities; Shares expertise with others.
• Judgment - Displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sounds and accurate judgment; Makes timely decisions.
• Communication - Communicates information by statement or suggestion.
• Influence - Effects change without direct exercise of command where persuasion is required.

Leadership:

• Achieving results through people by successful objective setting, performance review, motivation, delegation, teambuilding, commitment gains, and empowerment.

Attributes:

• Oral Communication - Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive and negative situations; Listens gets clarification; Responds well to questions; Participates in meetings.
• Written Communication : Writes clearly and informatively; Varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively.
• Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Writing Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Experience & Education Qualifications:

• 10+ years of infrastructure, systems, cloud, network, platform, or related engineering experience.
• Minimum Bachelor's degree required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with software-defined networking and storage.
• Experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and Git-based infrastructure management.
• Experience with advanced routing, multi-site networking, and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Relevant cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, automation, or architecture certifications.

Location/Working Conditions:

• Work is in the office Kennesaw, GA with hybrid opportunities.
• Required Travel: Infrequent/Frequent/Not applicable.

Computer Software/Hardware Knowledge:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint
• Outlook Exchange

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

• Must be able to stand and sit for prolonged periods of time, talking & hearing constantly.
• Occasionally lift up to 10 lbs.
• Must be able to sit in front of computer monitor(s) daily.
• Noise level: moderate noise level daily in an office atmosphere

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