Infrastructure Development Engineer

Job Title: Infrastructure Development Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX

Duration: 12+ Months

Rate: As low as possible

This role focuses on managing internal DNS, DHCP, and IPAM solutions, as well as maintaining the internal production environment and automation.

Job Summary

• We are looking for an Infrastructure Development Engineer to design, operate, and scale foundational datacenter services that power bare-metal, virtualization, and cloud-adjacent platforms. This role owns the automation to boot and manage critical services such as corporate IPAM/DDI, CMDB, and datacenter bootstrapping systems.
• You will work across hardware, networking, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure is discoverable, automated, reliable, and ready for self-service consumption.

Key Responsibilities

Build automation and tools in Python

• Develop Python-based tools and services for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and self-service workflows
• Automate repetitive operational tasks (imaging, deployments, health checks, remediation) and reduce manual intervention
• Integrate with internal and external APIs to orchestrate infrastructure workflows (compute, storage, network, cloud)
• Developers with experience in other programming languages, such as C++ or Java, will also be considered.

Software Defined Network Services: IPAM, DDI & CMDB

• Own and operate the corporate IP Address Management (IPAM) and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) platforms.
• Design scalable IP allocation, DNS, and DHCP strategies across multiple datacenters and environments.
• Integrate IPAM/DDI systems with provisioning, bootstrapping, and CMDB workflows.
• Act as a steward of the CMDB, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and automation-driven updates.
• Define and enforce standards for asset discovery, lifecycle state, and dependency mapping.

Monitoring, observability, and reliability

• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Nagios or similar)
• Define and track key metrics (availability, latency, capacity, error rates), and drive improvements based on data
• Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes and runbooks

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• Experience with bare-metal provisioning and hypervisor deployment.
• Hands-on experience with OpenStack, VMware, KubeVirt, or similar virtualization platforms.
• Deep understanding of IPAM, DNS, and DHCP at enterprise scale.
• Experience operating or integrating CMDB systems as a source of truth.
• Solid knowledge of datacenter networking concepts, including Fibre Channel. Proficiency with Linux systems and troubleshooting at hardware and OS layers.

Automation & Systems Thinking

• Experience building infrastructure automation and onboarding pipelines.
• Familiarity with API-driven integrations and workflow orchestration.
• Ability to reason about infrastructure as a platform, not just individual systems.

Collaboration & Ownership

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with hardware, network, storage, and SRE teams.
• Strong operational mindset with a focus on reliability, correctness, and supportability.
• Ability to drive ambiguous problems to clear, automated solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with large-scale internal platforms or infrastructure as a product .
• Background in SRE or reliability engineering.
• Exposure to self-service infrastructure platforms and developer enablement.
• Experience operating in multi-datacenter or hybrid environments.
• Server Bootstrapping & Provisioning automation
• Familiar with datacenter bootstrapping services, including PXE, imaging, and initial OS/hypervisor provisioning.
• Ensure seamless handoff from hardware arrival to production-ready infrastructure.
• Improve time-to-serve metrics for new racks, clusters, and testbeds.

Impact

• In this role, you ll directly influence how fast and safely infrastructure is delivered to engineers. Your work will reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and create a clear, automated path from hardware to production-ready services.