Staff DevOps Infrastructure Engineer

NMI • Schaumburg, IL

89d • $155,000 - $165,000

About The Position

We are seeking an execution-driven and technically seasoned Staff DevOps Infrastructure Engineer with a strong background in hybrid infrastructure, automation, and observability. This role is ideal for someone with 8+ years of experience designing and operating highly available systems in production environments and leading complex infrastructure modernization efforts. You will be at the forefront of building scalable systems, enhancing availability, and improving automation and tooling in a mission-critical environment. This is a fully remote role (based in the US), with occasional travel (1–4 times per year) to company colocation facilities, covered by NMI. If you live near a company office, occasional in-person collaboration is encouraged.

Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Proven experience in hybrid infrastructure with strong colocation and on-prem expertise (not exclusively public cloud)
• Proficiency in configuration-as-code tooling (Ansible, Puppet) and scripting (Python, Bash, Go)
• Expert-level Linux systems knowledge (RHEL-based distributions preferred)
• Experience with Proxmox, KVM, or VMWare in high-availability environments
• Advanced troubleshooting of SANs, load balancers, and virtualization platforms
• Proactive infrastructure monitoring using commercial or OSS alerting systems

Nice To Haves

• Experience with F5 BigIP LTMs, NetApp SANs, or similar enterprise systems
• Familiarity with observability stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
• Working knowledge of MySQL and Kubernetes (or motivation to learn it)
• Prior exposure to SaaS-based WAF/DDoS platforms (CloudFlare, Akamai, Silverline)
• Experience in agile teams (Scrum, Kanban) and fast-moving scale-up environments
• Hands-on GitLab experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance and operations for production and development environments, including patching, deployments, and server management
• Ensure high reliability and performance of services, proactively resolving incidents before customer impact
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and drive post-incident reviews and blameless post-mortems
• Architect and implement complex solutions spanning OS, virtualization, network, storage, and cloud layers
• Coordinate on-site deployments in colocation facilities (server/storage installation, decommissioning, and troubleshooting)
• Lead automation initiatives for infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks
• Design and maintain tooling for observability using OSS and commercial platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
• Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver infrastructure that meets compliance, performance, and scale requirements
• Continuously improve SRE/DevOps practices, driving documentation quality, operational maturity, and agility

Benefits

• Annual salary of $155,000 - $165,000 + bonus
• A remote first culture!
• Flex PTO
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Company volunteer days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree