SRE- Core Infrastructure Engineer - Professional Level

$,000 per year + 10-15% bonus. Bonus could be higher based on contribution.

3 days onsite
- Tuesday and wednesday mandatory.

Location:

Minneapolis, MN

DIRECT HIRE-- only USC or GC

We are seeking a SRE/Core Infrastructure Engineer
- Professional to support and improve our on-premises and cloud infrastructure. This mid-level role is ideal for an engineer with several years of hands-on experience who can work independently, contribute to technical decisions, lead small-to-medium infrastructure projects, and continue developing their technical expertise.

• Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Support physical and virtual servers, Windows and or Linux operating systems, enterprise storage, backup platforms, and related infrastructure.
• Maintain infrastructure across cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Use monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog to:
  • Create and maintain infrastructure and application monitors.
  • Build operational, capacity, availability, and service-health dashboards.
  • Configure actionable alerts, thresholds, notification routing, and escalation procedures.
  • Analyze metrics, logs, events, and performance trends.
  • Reduce alert noise and improve monitoring coverage.
• Perform operating system and infrastructure patching, upgrades, lifecycle management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation and respond to infrastructure incidents outside normal business hours when required.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement durable solutions.
• Lead selected infrastructure projects, including requirements gathering, planning, implementation, testing, documentation, and operational handoff.
• Monitor and manage infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, operational procedures, asset information, and disaster-recovery plans.
• Collaborate with security, networking, application, cloud, and business teams.
• Automate routine operational tasks using scripting, configuration-management, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Assist infrastructure leadership with architecture planning, technology roadmaps, budgeting, risk management, and the company's overall infrastructure and cloud strategy.
• Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to other team members.

• 6-10 years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a similar role.
• Hands-on experience administering VMware technologies such as vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server and or Linux administration.
• Experience with enterprise storage technologies and concepts, including SAN, NAS, RAID, snapshots, replication, and capacity planning.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog or a comparable monitoring and observability platform, including creating monitors, dashboards, alerts, and reports.
• Ability to interpret infrastructure metrics, logs, events, performance data, and capacity trends.
• Experience with server patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and incident response.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead infrastructure projects and coordinate work across technical teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Willingness to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.

• Experience managing Datadog configurations through APIs, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Power Shell, or similar automation technologies.
• Familiarity with Active Directory, identity and access management, and Microsoft 365.
• Experience supporting hybrid-cloud environments and cloud migrations.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and security best practices.
• Relevant certifications such as VMware VCP, Microsoft Azure Administrator, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.

The successful candidate will keep critical infrastructure reliable, observable, and secure; respond effectively to operational issues; complete patching and maintenance on schedule; and independently…