Sr. IT and Infrastructure Engineer

Senior IT & Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Bay Area remote flexible

Compensation: Competitive base/equity mix

As a Senior IT & Infrastructure Engineer with our SF Bay Area client you will be the engineer keeping their mid-peninsula engineering organization running owning the compute infrastructure CI/CD systems monitoring lab equipment and internal IT services that engineering depends on every day. You will work hands-on across Linux administration build pipelines virtualization AWS lab operations and tier-1 internal support and partner closely with our 5G DevOps counterpart in Romania on shared infrastructure standards. This is a broad hands-on role for someone energized by being the person engineers come to when things need to work in the 5G or LTE telecommunications industry.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Infrastructure & Operations

• Manage their compute infrastructure including on-site lab equipment (Linux hosts Jenkins servers lab gear) and cloud resources.

• Administer Linux hosts across the engineering environment including SaltStack-based configuration management and NFS.

• Create and operate virtualized resources including Docker containers and KVM hosts.

• Maintain backup and disaster recovery systems for managed Linux hosts.

• Support core engineering SaaS tools (1Password GitHub GitLab Cursor etc.).

• Provide operational support for their robotics setup including integration of robotic testing and test results into engineering workflows.

CI/CD & Build Systems

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Jenkins for firmware and host image work ensuring build consistency automated linting testing and versioned artifact creation.

• Integrate quality gates into pipelines using SonarScanner Pytest and other linting tools to maintain code quality standards.

• Integrate hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing into firmware and host image build automation pipelines.

Monitoring & Alerting

• Operate and evolve their Grafana observability stacks across infrastructure and testing environments covering data ingest visualizations storage and alerting.

• Implement and troubleshoot alerts for system health conditions including power states

(battery vs. wall power) UPS auto-shutdowns full disks and other infrastructure faults.

AWS & Cloud Operations

• Provide AWS organization-wide support including new account creation periodic security audits and cost analysis reporting.

Internal IT Support

• Provide internal helpdesk support across hardware software and account issues for the engineering organization.

• Manage internal account creation and host configuration workflows.

• Coordinate with external IT partners and vendors on compliance vendor management and IT-adjacent engineering projects.

MUST HAVE ATTRIBUTES/SKILLS

• 5 years of experience in IT operations systems administration DevOps or infrastructure engineering with hands-on responsibility across both IT and engineering systems.

• Strong Linux system administration skills (Bash) including configuration management (SaltStack Ansible or similar) NFS and backup and disaster recovery.

• Hands-on experience with virtualization including Docker and KVM.

• Working experience operating CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Jenkins including build automation testing integration and artifact management.

• Working experience operating Grafana-based monitoring and alerting in production environments.

• Familiarity with cloud administration at the organization level including account management security and cost reporting (AWS preferred).

• Comfort providing tier-1 internal IT support to a technical engineering team.

• Based in the Bay Area with on-site presence at their mid Peninsula California office at least 3 days per week.

SHOULD HAVE ATTRIBUTES/SKILLS

• Experience coordinating with external IT vendors and managing compliance-adjacent IT projects (security audits vendor management).

• Experience operating in a regulated or compliance-sensitive engineering environment.

• Exposure to early-stage or high-growth startup environments.

• Experience supporting firmware or embedded engineering teams including hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) test integration into build pipelines.

• Familiarity with 5G or LTE telecommunications at a working level.

• Operational experience with lab equipment test rigs or robotics infrastructure in an engineering organization.

• Working familiarity with code quality and static analysis tooling (SonarScanner Pytest).

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch operations (clients legacy systems; may require migration or retirement).