Junior Infrastructure Engineer

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Junior Infrastructure Engineer

The Junior Infrastructure Engineer is an entry-to-mid-level technical role on the Infrastructure team responsible for supporting, maintaining, securing, and helping evolve Pampered Chef's hybrid infrastructure across on-premises, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. Working collaboratively within the technology organization, this engineer plays a key role in ensuring the reliability, security, performance, and recoverability of critical infrastructure services.

The ideal candidate possesses foundational systems administration skills, experience supporting cloud-based services, an interest in automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, and a passion for continuous learning. This role will actively participate in infrastructure operations, cloud administration, security hardening, automation initiatives, disaster recovery preparedness, and operational excellence efforts.

• Maintain and support Windows and Linux server environments, ensuring availability, performance, and security across both on-premises and cloud-hosted workloads.
• Upgrade and maintain core infrastructure services, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP.
• Implement regular software updates, patches, and security updates to optimize performance and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Troubleshoot server, operating system, and infrastructure-related issues to ensure reliable service delivery.
• Deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain cloud infrastructure hosted within AWS and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Support AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, S3, Cloud Watch, and backup and recovery services.
• Assist in the design, implementation, and support of secure cloud architectures following company security standards and industry best practices.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, capacity, cost optimization, and security risks.
• Support cloud security controls, including identity and access management, role-based access controls, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and infrastructure hardening.
• Support cloud and infrastructure disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity initiatives, including participation in recovery testing activities.
• Administer and maintain Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtualization environments, supporting VM provisioning, lifecycle management, and resource optimization.
• Participate as an active member of the Sec Ops team, contributing to virtual infrastructure management with an emphasis on Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
• Assist with capacity planning and performance optimization of virtualized environments.
• Administer and support Microsoft 365 and Azure environments, including Entra , Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, One Drive, and Teams.
• Maintain and support the broader Microsoft cloud ecosystem, including Entra , Microsoft Defender, Exchange, and Intune.
• Manage identity, access, and authentication services including MFA, Conditional Access, role-based access control (RBAC), and identity lifecycle management.
• Support implementation and maintenance of security policies and compliance controls across Microsoft cloud services.
• Proactively monitor infrastructure components with a focus on availability, performance, security, and optimization; respond to alerts and elevate as appropriate.
• Administer and validate system backup operations leveraging Rubrik, ensuring recoverability and compliance with data protection standards.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and perform root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Participate in infrastructure and security incident response activities, assisting with investigation, containment, remediation, and documentation.
• Support disaster recovery validation exercises and ensure infrastructure recovery procedures remain current and effective.

• Develop and maintain automation, configuration, provisioning, and monitoring solutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Automate infrastructure build, deployment, and management tasks using Power Shell, AI-assisted automation tools, cloud-native automation services, and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
• Create and maintain repeatable infrastructure deployment standards and operational procedures.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure runbooks, recovery procedures, process flows, architecture diagrams, and technical…