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Title: Infrastructure Engineer
Job Type: Contract
Location: Onsite, Las Vegas, NV (with travel to other locations)
Pay Range: $60-$65/hour
Summary
Seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to support and enhance critical IT and operational technology environments within large-scale mining operations. This role focuses on building, maintaining, and optimizing secure, highly available infrastructure that supports both corporate systems and field-based technologies. The ideal candidate has experience working in industrial environments and is comfortable deploying and supporting technology in remote, demanding locations.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable network infrastructure supporting remote and industrial operations, including WAN, LAN, wireless, cellular, and satellite connectivity.
- Administer physical and virtual server environments, edge computing platforms, and cloud-connected storage solutions.
- Support infrastructure that enables industrial control systems, automation platforms, fleet management solutions, and operational technologies.
- Travel to field locations to install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot networking equipment, servers, communications hardware, and cabling.
- Develop and maintain backup, redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure continuous business and operational uptime.
- Strengthen infrastructure security by implementing cybersecurity controls and best practices for industrial and enterprise systems.
- Monitor infrastructure performance and proactively resolve issues affecting system reliability and availability.
- Collaborate with technical teams and operational stakeholders to support infrastructure projects and technology initiatives.
Skills
- 4+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Administration, Network Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Hands-on experience supporting IT and operational technology infrastructure within mining or other heavy industrial environments.
- Strong expertise with enterprise networking technologies, including Cisco, Aruba, industrial switching, routing, and firewall administration.
- Experience managing Windows and Linux server environments.
- Knowledge of virtualization platforms such as VMware or Hyper-V.
- Understanding of industrial control systems, SCADA environments, and OT networking concepts.
- Experience implementing disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and security best practices for critical infrastructure.
- Ability and willingness to travel to remote industrial sites and work within strict safety requirements.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with mining fleet management platforms and related technologies.
- Industry certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Security+, VMware VCP, or Microsoft cloud/infrastructure certifications.
- Current MSHA certification or previous experience working on active mining sites.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance.
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