Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world‑class health care in America’s heartland.

Facility: Stevens Center Building
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Address: 900 East 54th St N, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, USA
Shift: 8 Hours – Day Shifts
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly

Hours:

40.00
Salary Range: $49.50 – $81.50

Opportunity for technical leadership role in a large, mature and growing infrastructure team. Diverse experience, skills and singular mission combine to deliver high quality, secure and performant infrastructure products. Come grow with us!

Applies expert technology infrastructure knowledge and experience to research, recommend, design, and implement complex multi‑vendor infrastructure solutions for the organization. Responsible for analyzing business and technical requirements, identifying broad design issues, and providing solutions that meet the organization’s needs. Develop, design, and implement secure, resilient, scalable infrastructure solutions (servers, storage, network, cloud) aligned with business goals. Develop strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services in your area of responsibility.

Design, implement, and maintain our organization’s server, storage and application hosting infrastructure at an optimal level of performance and availability. Apply expertise and problem‑solving to consult on technology platforms in a strategic, resilient, secure, and cost‑effective manner.

Analyze, scope and identify technical requirements for new and existing products, and determine optimum hosting configuration in hybrid (cloud, on‑premises, SaaS) environments. Work with technical architects to obtain strategic designs and ensure compatibility with existing infrastructure. Prototype and validate emerging computing/storage/cloud technologies.

Lead and infrastructure teams in building, managing, supporting and maintaining solutions while ensuring compliance with Sanford policy. Oversee or consult on mid‑to‑large, complex infrastructure projects. Foster and champion modern IT practices that embrace standardization, automation and artificial intelligence. Mentor senior infrastructure team members to provide technical guidance and promote a culture of excellence.

Build partnerships across the technology organization to align infrastructure design to business, security, resiliency, and architectural standards. Lead or consult on mid‑to‑large‑scale infrastructure projects, requiring deep technical expertise and leadership. Provide strong leadership, communication, and project management skills while managing multiple simultaneous priorities. Work independently with minimal oversight as well as collaboratively as part of multi‑disciplined teams.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field required.
• 10 years of technical experience in enterprise server, storage, or cloud environments with at least two years in a senior or principal level role.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with enterprise compute systems, storage arrays, hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud platform as a service, and server virtualization.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Power Shell.
• Proficiency with network topologies, communication protocols, application delivery controllers, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor infrastructure engineers and administrators.
• Advanced infrastructure certifications desired.

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Work/life balance benefits
• Generous time off package

Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full‑time and part‑time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home‑work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit  .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call or send an email to talent .

Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre‑employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0251249
Job Function: Information Technology
Featured: No