Principal Infrastructure Engineer (Compute & Storage)

Principal ComputeEngineer (Team Lead)

Job Family: Infrastructure Engineering

Job Profile:

Level: P4

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ABOUT THE POSITION

We are seeking a Principle Compute and Storage Infrastructure Engineer (P4) withstrong on-premand solid hybridexpertise and a focus on virtualized environments Windows and Red Hat Linux operating systems storage global files sharing and replication/resiliencehybridenvironments. In this role you will helplead andkeep our Global On-Prem environment reliable secure and well-governed; partnering with and supporting other engineers through operational execution documentation continuous improvement.You will also helpplan design and deploy future state environments as we adapt to the business and changing technical landscape.

You bring deepOn-Premexpertisewith strong skills with Hybrid environments;familiarity with Azureand SaaS nuances.

Because this role partners with global teams across North America Europe and Asiaexcellent English communication (spoken and written) and experience working with international distributed teams are essential.

HOW YOULL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

In this role youll lead and contribute hands-on as part of Columbias global Infrastructure Engineering team to design build secure and operate enterpriseon-prem and hybridplatforms and services at scale.

You will:

• Lead technical design foron prem and hybridinfrastructure solutions (computestorage security governance and platform services) producing clear architecture diagrams and decision records

• Serve as team lead for a small squad of engineers: coach/mentor engineers and drive consistent engineering practices

• Partner closely with the US-basedCompute and StorageInfrastructure team to align standards reference architectures and shared roadmaps; collaborate effectively across time zones

• Drive reliability and operations maturity: incident response leadership post-incident learning runbooks observability and continuous improvement

• Conduct technical reviews audits and assessments; ensure documentation is accurate actionable and kept current

• Drive financially efficient decisions and work with the Finance Platform and Engineering teams to support FinOps practices including cost visibility usage optimization and spend governance

This position plays a key role in shaping Columbiason-prem and hybridplatform strategy and executionbuilding a stable scalable and secure foundation while enabling delivery teams worldwide.

YOU ARE

• A principal-levelinfrastructureengineer who combines strong hands-on delivery withsolutionarchitecture and design leadership

• A team lead who coaches others drives accountability and raises the quality bar through standards and reviews

• A collaborative partner who builds trusted relationships and works effectively with US-based Cloud Infrastructure teammates product teams and stakeholders across regions

• A clear and confident communicatorin both spoken and written Englishable to translate complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences

• Someone who values documentation repeatable automation and process-driven engineering

• An analytical thinker who emphasizes structure security reliability and cost awareness

• A proactive self-directed engineer who thrives in a dynamic global environment

YOU HAVE

• 8 years of hands-on experience inon-preminfrastructure / platform engineering including ownership of production environments

• 4 years of team mentorship guidance and ability to coordinate technical work and projects the team is working on

• 4 years working with global teams

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or related STEM fieldor equivalent experience

• Extensivehands-on experience with a combination of the following: VMware Windows Server OS RedHat Linux Commvault Dell PureQumulotechnologies

• Solid knowledge of Azure and SaaS environments

• Proven ability to lead technical design (architecture trade-offs documentation) and drive alignment across teams

• Experience working with global or distributed teams (GCC/multinational experience is a plus)

• Experience acting as a technical lead or team lead including mentoring code/IaCreviews and delivery planning

• Experience working with Product Owners and engineers to understand the work and break it downinto consumable pieces for engineers to act uponExperience with Jira Confluence

• Strong automation bias

• Familiarity with GitHub Actions Azure DevOps CI/CD and automation tools such as Ansible and PowerShell

• Experience withon-prem and hybridsecurity and governance controls (e.g. identity network segmentation policy-as-code logging/monitoring)

• Experience with ITSM/ITIL and operational excellence practices; exposure to Jira Service Manager is a plus