Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Bare Metal / Lab Operations)

3 days ago

Job Description

AIP Contractor JD
Key Responsibilities

Provide M-F 9-5 physical support in the AIP Lab in SCV
Act as on premise lab manager interacting with lab support partners
Responsible for hardware security audits
Deploy & Maintain Bare Metal and Virtual Hosts: Provision, configure, and manage 100% physical hardware (servers, storage, switches) and virtual servers across global labs / data centers (on-prem and hybrid cloud) for high-availability workloads
Automate Infrastructure Operations: Reduce manual effort through infrastructure-as-code (Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines for both bare metal and virtual machine provisioning, patching, and global inventory management.
Diagnose Critical Infrastructure Incidents: Resolve physical hardware failures (server crashes, storage corruption) andglobal infrastructure outages (e.g., data center downtime) within SLAs; lead post-mortems for R&D teams.
Optimize Global Infrastructure Performance: Tune bare metal and cloud workloads (e.g., Kubernetes, HPC) for low-latency operations using monitoring (Datadog or Prometheus) and storage performance analysis (e.g., I/O latency, throughput).
Own Enterprise Infrastructure: Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for global and remote R&D teams, including replication, disaster recovery, and performance tuning across time zones.

Required Qualifications and Experience

5+ years of enterprise systems infrastructure experience managing bare metal and virtual servers (physical hardware deployment, OS installation, patching) in global environments (on-prem, cloud hybrid)
Proven ability to automate bare metal and virtual operations using IaC (Ansible) and scripting (Python, Shell) for server provisioning, inventory tracking, and global infrastructure scaling
Investigate and Diagnose Physical infrastructure incidents: Server hardware failures, storage corruption, network connectivity loss
Operational monitoring proficiency: Used tools like Datadog or Prometheus to track server/storage health, uptime, and performance metrics globally
Document & Scale Knowledge: Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational guides for consistency.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

R&D Hardware Agility: Experience deploying bare metal infrastructure for AI/ML workloads (e.g., optimizing storage for GPU clusters, low-latency data pipelines), isolated R&D environments, malicious environments (malware, honeypots, etc), or temporary environments for forensic research
Global Hardware Operations: Proven success in documenting processes for non-English speaking teams across the world (e.g., APAC/NA)
Strong Python, including building and maintaining web services (Django or similar) backed by PostgreSQL.
Hands-on experience with virtualization and virtual switching.
Ethernet switching fundamentals, including VLANs, trunking and spanning tree.

Location

Sunnyvale/ Cupertino, CA

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