Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional
About The Position
Piper Sandler is seeking a mid-level Core Infrastructure Engineer to join its Technology team in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The role supports and improves the company’s on-premises and cloud infrastructure. The engineer will work independently, contribute to technical decisions, lead small-to-medium infrastructure projects, and continue developing technical expertise. The successful candidate will help keep critical infrastructure reliable, observable, and secure; respond effectively to operational issues; complete patching and maintenance on schedule; and deliver infrastructure projects. They will improve Datadog monitoring coverage, create useful dashboards and actionable alerts, and become a trusted contributor to infrastructure architecture and technology strategy. The role includes administering VMware environments; supporting servers, operating systems, storage, backups, and cloud platforms; maintaining monitoring and observability; managing patching and lifecycle work; participating in an on-call rotation; troubleshooting incidents; leading projects; maintaining documentation and disaster-recovery plans; automating operational tasks; and collaborating across technical and business teams. The position is based in Minneapolis, MN. The anticipated starting salary is $150,000–$215,000 per year, with eligibility for annual incentive compensation. Placement in the range depends on experience, location, and other factors.
Requirements
- 6–10 years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a similar role.
- Hands-on experience administering VMware technologies such as vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
- Strong knowledge of Windows Server and/or Linux administration.
- Experience with enterprise storage technologies and concepts, including SAN, NAS, RAID, snapshots, replication, and capacity planning.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform; AWS or Microsoft Azure is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with Datadog or a comparable monitoring and observability platform, including creating monitors, dashboards, alerts, and reports.
- Ability to interpret infrastructure metrics, logs, events, performance data, and capacity trends.
- Experience with server 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.
- Demonstrated 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing Datadog configurations through APIs, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, or similar automation technologies.
- Familiarity with Active Directory, identity and access management, and Microsoft 365.
- Experience supporting hybrid-cloud environments and cloud migrations.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and security best practices.
- Relevant certifications such as VMware VCP, Microsoft Azure Administrator, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
- Support physical and virtual servers, Windows and/or Linux operating systems, enterprise storage, backup platforms, and related infrastructure.
- Maintain infrastructure across cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Create and maintain infrastructure and application monitors using Datadog or similar tools.
- Build operational, capacity, availability, and service-health dashboards.
- Configure actionable alerts, thresholds, notification routing, and escalation procedures.
- Analyze metrics, logs, events, and performance trends; reduce alert noise and improve monitoring coverage.
- Perform operating-system and infrastructure patching, upgrades, lifecycle management, and vulnerability remediation.
- Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation and respond to infrastructure incidents outside normal business hours when required.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement durable solutions.
- Lead selected infrastructure projects, including requirements gathering, planning, implementation, testing, documentation, and operational handoff.
- Monitor and manage infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, reliability, and security.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, asset information, and disaster-recovery plans.
- Collaborate with security, networking, application, cloud, and business teams.
- Automate routine operational tasks using scripting, configuration-management, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Assist infrastructure leadership with architecture planning, technology roadmaps, budgeting, risk management, and infrastructure and cloud strategy.
- Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to other team members.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
