Transformation Center Infrastructure Engineer

CDW•Virtual - Illinois, IL

5d•$109,000 - $151,400

About The Position

The Transformation Center (TC) Infrastructure Engineer is a senior technical role responsible for designing, operating, and evolving foundational technology platforms for CDW’s Transformation Centers. The role supports innovation, solution development, partner collaboration, and executive briefings by ensuring TC environments are secure, isolated, scalable, and reliably operated. The engineer is expected to have strong subject matter expertise in one primary technical domain and working expertise in at least one additional domain. Working collaboratively with Industry Strategist Teams, partners, and technology stakeholders, the role enables rapid experimentation while maintaining governance and security standards. It supports isolated, non-production environments for innovation, research, solution prototyping, and client demonstrations, and contributes to documentation, standards, runbooks, architectural diagrams, automation, standardization, and evaluation of emerging technologies. The role may focus on Identity & Access Management; Storage & Compute; Network Security & Firewalls; or Modern Workspace. Responsibilities within these domains include operating identity platforms and access controls; designing and maintaining compute, storage, and backup solutions; building segmented networks and managing firewalls and secure connectivity; or operating endpoint, workspace, collaboration, and conference-room solutions.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, platforms, or security engineering.
Strong understanding of security principles, least-privilege access, and infrastructure isolation.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners.
Ability to clearly document designs, decisions, and operational processes.
Comfort working in environments with rapid change and evolving requirements.
Strong commitment to teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.

Nice To Haves

Cloud platform experience, with Azure preferred.
Automation and scripting experience with tools such as PowerShell, Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible.
Familiarity with Zero Trust and platform-engineering models.

Responsibilities

Support and maintain isolated, non-production technology environments used for innovation, research, solution prototyping, and client demonstrations.
Collaborate with Technology and Operations Team peers to design, implement, and support integrated solutions.
Contribute to documentation, standards, runbooks, and architectural diagrams to support knowledge sharing and operational continuity.
Support continuous improvement through automation, standardization, and evaluation of emerging technologies.
Serve as a designated owner and technical escalation point in a primary technical domain and collaborate in secondary domains.
Design and operate identity platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory within isolated TC tenants.
Implement RBAC, MFA, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, and identity lifecycle workflows.
Support federation and secure external access for partners and collaborators.
Enforce access governance, auditing, and identity security best practices.
Design, deploy, and maintain storage, compute, data backup, and recovery solutions.
Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, backup, restore, and lifecycle management.
Implement infrastructure-as-code and automation to accelerate environment provisioning.
Design and maintain secure, segmented network architectures for TC environments.
Operate next-generation firewalls, VPN/ZTNA solutions, and intrusion prevention capabilities.
Support secure partner connectivity, cloud networking, and NAC/device posture controls.
Monitor, log, and remediate network security events.
Design and operate modern endpoint and workspace solutions, including Windows, macOS, mobile, and VDI.
Manage endpoint provisioning, compliance, security baselines, and software distribution.
Support collaboration platforms and conference rooms, including demo readiness for Executive Briefings.