Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Anywhere

Type: Contract-to-Hire

Category: Engineer

Industry: Other

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -032025-101059

Date Posted: 03/02/2025

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/MqKKza

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100% Remote

Our client, a leader in AI-powered defense technology, has an excellent opportunity for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to work on a Contract-to-Hire opportunity. Work will be on a remote schedule. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for engineering, deploying, provisioning, and maintaining critical systems to drive innovation across client’s primary and remote office environments in the United States and internationally. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer will also manage workloads hosted in both private and public cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $75 - $85 / hr. w2

Responsibilities:

· Serve as a senior resource on the IT Cloud & Infrastructure team to develop solutions for complex requirements and issue resolution.

· Oversee the day-to-day management and optimization of on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure).

· Configure and assist in the advanced design and administration of Active Directory environments and modern workplace solutions via Microsoft 365

· Perform capacity planning for virtual machine environments, its systems, and the management of new solutions dependent upon that footprint.

· Responsible for security and performance monitoring of infrastructure, recommending enhancements where necessary.

· Implement and operate server, storage, and backup infrastructure systems and related disaster recovery processes

· Responsible for vulnerability remediation and resolution efforts across various infrastructure systems.

· Author and produce the necessary documentation for engineered and maintained systems along with associated processes which supporting teams can leverage.

· Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

· Provide escalated support for operational issues possibly during and after normal business hours for systems, Kubernetes AI infrastructure, and the datacenters hosting those.

· Assist with applying OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrades of administrative tools and utilities.

Experience Requirements:

· 8 years’ experience supporting applications and systems in a production environment, preferably for a software and/or manufacturing development company.

· Advanced and in-depth experience and concepts of Microsoft Windows Server administration, Azure and Active Directory environments

· Advanced and in-depth experience along with the fundamental understanding of at least one type of virtualization platform (i.e. VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.).

· Advanced and in-depth experience along with the fundamental understanding of at least one type of Storage Operating System (i.e. NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage)

· Proven engineering experience with deploying and maintaining workloads in public cloud (i.e. Azure, AWS)

· Experience with deployment and systems administration of at least one type of Linux distribution (i.e. RHEL, Ubuntu)

· Improve operational efficiencies by implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

· Automate repetitive tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.

· Fundamental understanding of the OSI model and network communication layers.

Education Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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