Infrastructure Engineer

Garda Capital Partners•Minneapolis, MN

About The Position

Garda Capital Partners is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own Platform Engineering and Automation. This hands-on role builds and operates shared deployment capabilities for infrastructure and selected applications while providing advanced infrastructure engineering and production support. The engineer develops reusable deployment pipelines, infrastructure templates, and self-service workflows that help teams provision environments and release changes consistently. The role works with architecture, application owners, and regional teams to improve platform reliability and resolve complex infrastructure problems.

Requirements

4–6 years of hands-on infrastructure operations experience across several domains.
Degree in IT, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.
Advanced PowerShell or Python automation experience, including API integration.
Practical experience with infrastructure as code or configuration management.
Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines, including Git, testing, secure deployment, and rollback.
Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and incident-response skills.
Working knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability concepts.
Ability to document work, mentor others, and collaborate across a distributed team.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS, container platforms, and modern cloud operating patterns; Azure is a plus.
Experience delivering reusable provisioning workflows for infrastructure and business applications.
Familiarity with ITSM, change, incident, and problem-management practices.
Experience in financial services or another performance-sensitive environment.
Track record of solving complex infrastructure problems and building shared capabilities other teams can use independently.
Strong track record of maintaining high standards for reliability, documentation, and maintainability.
Experience remaining effective under pressure, with a history of mentoring and knowledge-sharing within teams.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and recurring operational problems.
Troubleshoot across Windows/Linux systems, identity, networking, cloud, virtualization, storage, and backup.
Lead root-cause analysis and turn recurring incidents into engineering work or documented standards.
Participate in major changes, recovery events, and follow-the-sun handoffs.
Build automation using PowerShell, Python, and APIs with production-quality testing and error handling.
Own reusable infrastructure-as-code and configuration templates using Terraform and Ansible.
Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications, including validation, environment promotion, health checks, and rollback.
Apply Git, peer review, automated tests, change controls, and secure secrets handling.
Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and automated health checks.
Tune operational signals to reduce noise and improve detection and recovery.
Maintain reusable provisioning workflows and self-service capabilities.
Own platform reliability and lifecycle improvements with service owners.
Mentor engineers and workplace technology staff in troubleshooting and automation practices.
Review infrastructure code and pipeline designs with architecture, Security, and application owners.
Maintain runbooks, diagrams, and onboarding guidance.
Maintain a prioritized platform backlog with the architect and regional leads.