Role: Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Remote (US) / San Jose CA / Lehi UT
$70/hr on C2C
The Opportunity
Seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and operate the physical hardware layer of Adobes private cloud. This role is responsible for the lifecycle management reliability and continuous improvement of the computer networking and storage hardware that underpins our private cloud platforms.
This is a hands-on day-2 focused role centered on operating and maintaining production hardware at scale-ensuring systems are healthy performant and resilient. The position emphasizes operational ownership troubleshooting automation and capacity planning more than greenfield architecture or application development.
What Youll Do
Own and operate the physical infrastructure that powers Adobes private cloud including compute storage and networking hardware
Perform day-2 operations for datacenter hardware including installation break/fix firmware upgrades patching and lifecycle management
Manage hardware capacity planning expansion refresh cycles and decommissioning
Troubleshoot complex production issues across:
o Server hardware (CPU memory disks NICs HBAs)
o Storage systems and disk subsystems
o Network connectivity and physical switching
Manage firmware BIOS and hardware management controllers (iDRAC iLO Redfish)
Partner with platform SRE networking storage and security teams during incidents and planned maintenance
Improve infrastructure reliability through standardization automation and proactive monitoring
Build and maintain automation for hardware provisioning and operations using tools such as Ansible CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
Lead incident response root-cause analysis and drive corrective and preventative actions
Create and maintain operational documentation hardware standards runbooks and on-call playbooks
Mentor junior engineers and raise the operational maturity of the private cloud hardware platform
What You Need to Succeed
7 years of experience in infrastructure or datacenter engineering
Strong hands-on experience managing server storage and networking hardware in large-scale production environments
Deep understanding of x86 server architectures including CPU topology memory configurations NUMA and I/O subsystems
Experience operating enterprise storage systems (local and shared) and understanding performance resiliency and failure modes
Familiarity with datacenter networking concepts including L2/L3 VLANs bonding and physical switching
Strong Linux fundamentals and experience troubleshooting hardware-related OS issues
Experience with hardware lifecycle management capacity planning and vendor coordination
Proven ability to automate infrastructure operations and reduce manual work
Experience supporting highly available infrastructure with on-call responsibilities
Nice to Have
Experience operating hardware platforms for private cloud or on-prem cloud environments
Familiarity with vendor server fleet management tools like OME OneView and Intersight.
Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning frameworks and automation tooling
Experience integrating hardware platforms with virtualization or container platforms
Knowledge of Redfish IPMI or modern hardware management APIs
Vendor certifications or hands-on experience with major server and storage manufacturers
Experience operating infrastructure at multi-datacenter or global scale
Why Adobe
Own and operate core infrastructure that underpins Adobes private cloud
Work at scale with modern datacenter and cloud-adjacent hardware platforms
Solve complex real-world infrastructure challenges alongside experienced engineers
Be part of a collaborative inclusive Infrastructure Engineering organization focused on operational excellence