Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional
About The Position
Piper Sandler is seeking a Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional to join its Technology team in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This mid-level position supports and improves on-premises and cloud infrastructure. The engineer is expected to 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 to operational issues; complete scheduled patching and maintenance; and deliver infrastructure projects. The role also involves improving Datadog monitoring coverage, building useful dashboards, creating actionable alerts, and contributing to infrastructure architecture and technology strategy over time. The position involves collaboration with security, networking, application, cloud, and business teams, as well as participation in a scheduled on-call rotation. The anticipated starting salary is $150,000–$215,000 per year, dependent on experience, location, and other factors. The position is eligible for annual incentive compensation; total compensation will be competitive with the market.
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.
- 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.
- Experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure is preferred.
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 observability 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
