Principal Engineer, Linux and Virtualization Infrastructure

Principal Engineer, Linux & Virtualization Infrastructure

Location Requirement:
This position operates on a hybrid schedule (3 days in-office, 2 days remote). Candidates must be within 45 minutes of an office and able to regularly commute to work as required. This is not a fully remote opportunity.

At WOW! we're building and evolving the infrastructure that powers critical business and customer-facing technologies — and we're looking for a Principal Engineer, Linux & Virtualization Infrastructure to help lead that transformation.

This is a highly visible engineering role within our enterprise infrastructure organization, supporting multiple datacenters and environments while driving the design, architecture, implementation, and optimization of modern infrastructure solutions. You'll play a key role in both greenfield deployments and the evolution of existing production environments, helping ensure our platforms remain scalable, resilient, secure, and future-ready.

What WOW! Offers

• Base salary up to $175,000 annually, commensurate with experience, plus short-term incentive plan, and comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off & company holidays
• Tuition reimbursement for continued development
• Employee broadband discounts

What You'll Do

As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the management and evolution of compute, storage, and virtualization platforms across the enterprise.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and configure greenfield datacenter deployments while modernizing and retrofitting existing environments
• Lead system integration efforts for new technologies and infrastructure solutions through research, design, implementation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance
• Maintain and manage multiple virtualization clusters with ownership of current and future capacity planning
• Monitor enterprise infrastructure platforms and drive actionable recovery and operational improvements
• Co-manage Fibre Channel, VxLAN, and NAS environments with a continued focus on:
• Fault tolerance
• High availability
• Disaster recovery
• Analyze user and application requirements to determine operating system, storage, memory, and CPU needs for both physical and virtual server environments
• Lead the design, analysis, configuration, and implementation of enterprise storage architectures, including:
• Application and end-user storage requirements
• IO performance analysis
• Storage layout strategy
• Disaster recovery profiles
• Collaborate closely with networking and security teams to deliver solutions for internal business units and external customers
• Ensure all service platforms and applications are backed up according to established policies and procedures
• Participate in future technology strategy discussions and provide recommendations based on industry research and engineering expertise

Additional Responsibilities

• Serve as an engineering-level escalation resource for the Network Operations Center (NOC) and operational teams during high-level fault analysis and incident isolation
• Lead the deployment and configuration of high availability systems and storage architectures
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams on emerging technologies and infrastructure initiatives
• Create and maintain detailed systems and application documentation
• Provide professional technical support to both internal and external customers
• Maintain, enhance, and deploy hardware and software technologies within lab and testing environments
• Mentor and support fellow engineers and technical team members
• Perform additional duties as assigned

What You Bring

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 7+ years of experience as a Linux Systems Administrator, Linux Systems Engineer, or related infrastructure engineering role
• Expertise with Linux and/or Unix operating systems
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
• Solid knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• Experience with virtualization and containerization technologies including:
• VMware
• Prox Mox
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Experience managing complex systems…