IT Staff Systems Engineer VM

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IT Staff Systems Engineer - Infrastructure Automation & Virtualization

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Staff engineer to join our Infrastructure team with a primary focus on infrastructure automation and this role you will design build and maintain automation frameworks using Terraform Ansible and Python that drive the provisioning configuration and lifecycle management of our on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.

You will also bring strong hands-on experience with virtualization platforms including Nutanix KVM and VMware to support and evolve our HCI infrastructure. You operate as a skilled individual contributor executing within established engineering standards collaborating with senior engineers on architecture decisions and helping level up junior teammates through mentorship and code review.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning configuration and lifecycle management of compute storage and networking resources

Write and maintain Python and Bash automation scripts to reduce manual operational overhead integrate tooling and support CI/CD pipelines

Build and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or equivalent tooling to automate infrastructure deployments enforce policy-as-code and streamline testing and validation workflows

Administer and optimize virtualization platforms including Nutanix (AHV Prism AOS) KVM and VMware vSphere/ESXi ensuring performance availability and capacity targets are met

Support hybrid cloud operations across AWS and/or Azure integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud services using automation-first practices

Contribute to infrastructure design discussions providing input on architecture decisions related to automation virtualization HCI and cloud integration

Monitor infrastructure health using observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Datadog) respond to incidents and drive root-cause analysis and remediation

Develop and maintain documentation for automation frameworks runbooks and infrastructure standards to ensure operational consistency and knowledge sharing

Participate in security and compliance reviews applying hardening practices and policy-as-code across infrastructure pipelines

Mentor junior engineers through pair programming code review and knowledge transfer contributing to team growth and a culture of automation-first thinking

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

58 years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong emphasis on automation and infrastructure-as-code

Expert-level proficiency in Terraform writing modular reusable HCL configurations for multi-environment deployments

Solid hands-on experience with Ansible for configuration management idempotent playbook development and role-based automation

Proficiency in Python for automation scripting tooling development and API integration; Bash scripting for operational tasks

Production-level experience with at least two of the following virtualization platforms: Nutanix (AHV/Prism/AOS) KVM/QEMU VMware vSphere/ESXi

Familiarity with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions GitLab CI or Jenkins) and GitOps workflows for infrastructure automation

Working knowledge of AWS or Azure including compute networking IAM and hybrid connectivity (VPN Direct Connect / ExpressRoute) is an advantage.

Foundational networking knowledge: VLANs routing DNS load balancing and firewall rules in virtualized environments

Experience with GitHub or GitHub Enterprise for version control branching strategies and pull-request-based workflows

Strong communication skills and ability to produce clear technical documentation runbooks and architecture diagrams

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