LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Laser Development Engineer - Boulder, CO Southwest Research Institute - Fulltime
Boulder, CO14 days ago
- $117,894 Per Year
- Full-time
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Skills
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Architectural Designunmatched
- Broadbandunmatched
- CPU (Central Processing Unit)unmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Channel Managementunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer/Client Researchunmatched
- Dental Insuranceunmatched
- Disaster Recoveryunmatched
- Dockerunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Enterprise Architectureunmatched
- Fibre Channelunmatched
- Hardware Virtualizationunmatched
- High Availabilityunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Laboratory Testingunmatched
- Linux Administrationunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Memory Hardwareunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Network Attached Storage (NAS)unmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- Network Securityunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Retrofitunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Storage Architectureunmatched
- Storage Area Network (SAN)unmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Technical Strategyunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Tuition Reimbursementunmatched
- Unix Operating Systemsunmatched
- VMWareunmatched
- Virtualizationunmatched
- Vision Planunmatched
Description
The Opportunity
Location Requirement:This position operates on a hybrid schedule (3 days in-office, 2 days remote). Candidates must be within 45 minutes of an office and able to regularly commute to work as required. This is not a fully remote opportunity.
At WOW! we're building and evolving the infrastructure that powers critical business and customer-facing technologies - and we're looking for a Principal
Engineer, Linux & Virtualization Infrastructure to help lead that transformation.
This is a highly visible engineering role within our enterprise infrastructure organization, supporting multiple datacenters and environments while driving the design, architecture, implementation, and optimization of modern infrastructure solutions. You'll play a key role in both greenfield deployments and the evolution of existing production environments, helping ensure our platforms remain scalable, resilient, secure, and future-ready.
What WOW! Offers
What You'll Do
As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the management and evolution of compute, storage, and virtualization platforms across the enterprise.
Core Responsibilities
Additional Responsibilities
In this role, you will also:
What You Bring
Required Education & Experience
Location Requirement:This position operates on a hybrid schedule (3 days in-office, 2 days remote). Candidates must be within 45 minutes of an office and able to regularly commute to work as required. This is not a fully remote opportunity.
At WOW! we're building and evolving the infrastructure that powers critical business and customer-facing technologies - and we're looking for a Principal
Engineer, Linux & Virtualization Infrastructure to help lead that transformation.
This is a highly visible engineering role within our enterprise infrastructure organization, supporting multiple datacenters and environments while driving the design, architecture, implementation, and optimization of modern infrastructure solutions. You'll play a key role in both greenfield deployments and the evolution of existing production environments, helping ensure our platforms remain scalable, resilient, secure, and future-ready.
What WOW! Offers
- Base salary up to $175,000 annually, commensurate with experience, plus short-term incentive plan, and comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off & company holidays
- Tuition reimbursement for continued development
- Employee broadband discounts
What You'll Do
As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the management and evolution of compute, storage, and virtualization platforms across the enterprise.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and configure greenfield datacenter deployments while modernizing and retrofitting existing environments
- Lead system integration efforts for new technologies and infrastructure solutions through research, design, implementation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance
- Maintain and manage multiple virtualization clusters with ownership of current and future capacity planning
- Monitor enterprise infrastructure platforms and drive actionable recovery and operational improvements
- Co-manage Fibre Channel, VxLAN, and NAS environments with a continued focus on:
- Fault tolerance
- High availability
- Disaster recovery
- Analyze user and application requirements to determine operating system, storage, memory, and CPU needs for both physical and virtual server environments
- Lead the design, analysis, configuration, and implementation of enterprise storage architectures, including:
- Application and end-user storage requirements
- IO performance analysis
- Storage layout strategy
- Disaster recovery profiles
- Collaborate closely with networking and security teams to deliver solutions for internal business units and external customers
- Ensure all service platforms and applications are backed up according to established policies and procedures
- Participate in future technology strategy discussions and provide recommendations based on industry research and engineering expertise
Additional Responsibilities
In this role, you will also:
- Serve as an engineering-level escalation resource for the Network Operations Center (NOC) and operational teams during high-level fault analysis and incident isolation
- Lead the deployment and configuration of high availability systems and storage architectures
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams on emerging technologies and infrastructure initiatives
- Create and maintain detailed systems and application documentation
- Provide professional technical support to both internal and external customers
- Maintain, enhance, and deploy hardware and software technologies within lab and testing environments
- Mentor and support fellow engineers and technical team members
- Perform additional duties as assigned
What You Bring
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- 7+ years of experience as a Linux Systems Administrator, Linux Systems Engineer, or related infrastructure engineering role
- Expertise with Linux and/or Unix operating systems
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
- Solid knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SANs)
- Experience with virtualization and containerization technologies including:
- VMware
- ProxMox
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Experience managing complex systems infrastructure project
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Denver, Colorado (Remote) |
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