Job Description
Job Title: Datacenter Infrastructure Engineer
Duration: 6 Months (Possibility of Extension)
Location Preference: Dallas, TX area (Preferred)
Overview
We are looking for an Infrastructure Development Engineer to design, operate, and scale foundational datacenter services that power bare-metal, virtualization, and cloud-adjacent platforms.
This role owns the automation to boot and manage critical services such as corporate IPAM/DDI, CMDB, and datacenter bootstrapping systems.
The engineer will work across hardware, networking, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure is discoverable, automated, reliable, and ready for self-service consumption.
Key Responsibilities
- Automation & Development
- Build automation and tools using Python
- Develop Python-based tools and services for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and self-service workflows
- Automate operational tasks such as imaging, deployments, health checks, and remediation
- Integrate internal and external APIs to orchestrate infrastructure workflows across compute, storage, network, and cloud
- Developers with experience in C++ or Java will also be considered
- Software Defined Network Services (IPAM, DDI & CMDB)
- Own and operate corporate IP Address Management (IPAM) and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) platforms
- Design scalable IP allocation, DNS, and DHCP strategies across datacenters
- Integrate IPAM/DDI systems with provisioning, bootstrapping, and CMDB workflows
- Act as a steward of the CMDB ensuring accuracy and automation-driven updates
- Define standards for asset discovery, lifecycle state, and dependency mapping
- Monitoring, Observability & Reliability
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Nagios
- Track key metrics such as availability, latency, capacity, and error rates
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
- Implement long-term fixes and operational runbooks
Required Skills & Experience
- Core Technical Skills
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning and hypervisor deployment
- Hands-on experience with OpenStack, VMware, KubeVirt, or similar virtualization platforms
- Deep understanding of IPAM, DNS, and DHCP
- Experience with CMDB systems
- Knowledge of datacenter networking concepts including Fibre Channel
- Proficiency with Linux systems and troubleshooting
- Automation & Systems Thinking
- Experience building infrastructure automation and onboarding pipelines
- Familiarity with API-driven integrations and workflow orchestration
- Ability to understand infrastructure as a platform
- Collaboration & Ownership
- Experience working with hardware, network, storage, and SRE teams
- Strong operational mindset focused on reliability and supportability
- Ability to solve complex problems with automated solutions
- Nice to Have
- Experience with large-scale internal platforms or infrastructure as a product
- Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Experience with self-service infrastructure platforms
- Experience in multi-datacenter or hybrid environments
- Server Bootstrapping & Provisioning Automation
- Experience with datacenter bootstrapping services including PXE, imaging, and OS/hypervisor provisioning
- Ensure seamless transition from hardware arrival to production-ready infrastructure
- Improve time-to-serve metrics for new racks, clusters, and testbeds
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