Join a high-impact infrastructure team where you'll help keep critical systems reliable, secure, and ready to support business growth. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex challenges, improving observability, and contributing to infrastructure strategy in a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Administer and support VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
- Maintain and troubleshoot physical and virtual servers across Windows and/or Linux environments.
- Support enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and infrastructure lifecycle activities.
- Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud to support hybrid infrastructure needs.
- Create and manage monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and reports using Datadog or a similar observability tool.
- Review logs, metrics, events, and performance trends to improve reliability and reduce noise.
- Perform patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and other maintenance tasks on schedule.
- Respond to incidents and participate in an on-call rotation when needed.
- Investigate infrastructure issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
- Lead infrastructure projects from planning through implementation, testing, documentation, and handoff.
- Track capacity, availability, performance, and security across the infrastructure environment.
- Document technical procedures, operational processes, asset details, and disaster recovery plans.
- Partner with security, networking, application, cloud, and business teams on shared initiatives.
- Automate repetitive tasks using scripting, configuration management, or infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Support infrastructure planning, roadmap discussions, risk awareness, and continuous improvement efforts.
Skills
- 6-10 years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a similar role.
- Hands-on experience with VMware technologies such as vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
- Strong working knowledge of Windows Server and/or Linux administration.
- Experience with enterprise storage concepts such as SAN, NAS, RAID, snapshots, replication, and capacity planning.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience using Datadog or another monitoring platform to build monitors, dashboards, alerts, and reports.
- Ability to interpret infrastructure metrics, logs, events, and performance data.
- Experience with patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, backup, recovery, and incident response.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and load balancing.
- Proven ability to lead projects and coordinate work across technical teams.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and organizational skills.
- Willingness to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.
Preferred Skills
- Experience managing Datadog through APIs, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, or similar automation technologies.
- Familiarity with Active Directory, identity and access management, and Microsoft 365.
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments and cloud migration initiatives.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and security best practices.
- Relevant certifications such as VMware VCP, Microsoft Azure Administrator, or AWS Solutions Architect.
Horizontal is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds are valued and respected. We welcome candidates who share a collaborative mindset and a commitment to creating equitable opportunities for everyone.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and agree that Horizontal Talent may contact you regarding your application using automated technology, including phone calls, SMS/text messages, or email, which may be delivered by our virtual AI recruiter, Alex.
Please apply through this online posting or by visiting our Job Board at Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $170,000 - $195,000 per year based on qualifications and experience.
