Senior Infra Engineer: On-Prem & Cloud Migrations

Orion Innovation; Canada; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Innovation is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to bridge traditional data centers with public cloud usage. The role focuses on maintaining production environments, supporting developer pipelines, and enabling VM migrations across on-prem and cloud setups.

Candidates should demonstrate deep Linux administration, on-prem virtualization expertise, and experience with AWS core services, networking, and automation tooling. A hands-on interview may be conducted.

Qualifications

• Production-grade hardware and infra in a physical data center.
• Expertise with major on-prem virtualization platforms (VMware/vSphere, OpenShift Virtualization, OpenStack, etc.).
• Experience deploying and monitoring environments in AWS (EC2, EBS, VPC, ELK/OpenSearch).
• Advanced Linux administration and troubleshooting under pressure.
• Strong networking, firewalls, DNS, VPN, TLS, and routing knowledge.
• Scripting for automation (Python or Bash) and configuration management (Chef or Puppet).
• Willingness to participate in live troubleshooting during interviews.

Responsibilities

• Operate, secure, and scale production environments across data centers and public clouds.
• Support automated VM migrations between on-prem and cloud environments.
• Manage Linux administration, hardening, and performance tuning.
• Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement reliability improvements.
• Maintain networking components, firewalls, load balancers, and virtual appliances.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting for uptime and reliability.
• Automate repetitive tasks via scripting and CM tools; document procedures.
• Collaborate with teams to support deployments, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), and EC2 connectivity.
• Create and update infrastructure diagrams and runbooks.

Skills

Linux administration

On-prem virtualization

AWS core IaaS (EC2, EBS, VPC)

Networking and security

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Configuration management (Chef, Puppet

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Live troubleshooting

Tools

VMware vSphere

OpenShift Virtualization

OpenStack

Nutanix

Hyper-V

pfSense

Jenkins

ELK/OpenSearch

Job description

Orion Innovation is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to bridge traditional data centers with public cloud usage. The role focuses on maintaining production environments, supporting developer pipelines, and enabling VM migrations across on-prem and cloud setups.

Candidates should demonstrate deep Linux administration, on-prem virtualization expertise, and experience with AWS core services, networking, and automation tooling. A hands-on interview may be conducted.