Core Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud & VMware Lead

Piper Sandler & Co.; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Sandler & Co. is seeking a Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional to join our Platform Engineering team in Minneapolis, MN.

You will help maintain on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, leading medium‑sized projects while improving monitoring, reliability, and security across VMware, Windows, Linux, and cloud environments. The role requires several years of hands‑on experience, a strong ability to work independently, and collaboration with security, networking, and application teams.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, or a similar role.
• Hands‑on experience administering VMware technologies such as vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server and/or Linux administration.
• Experience with enterprise storage technologies and concepts, including SAN, NAS, RAID, snapshots, replication, and capacity planning.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Hands‑on experience with Datadog or a comparable monitoring and observability platform, including creating monitors, dashboards, alerts, and reports.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Support physical and virtual servers, Windows and/or Linux operating systems, enterprise storage, backup platforms, and related infrastructure.
• Maintain infrastructure across cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Use monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog to create and maintain monitors and dashboards.
• Configure actionable alerts, thresholds, notification routing, and escalation procedures.
• Lead selected infrastructure projects from requirements gathering to handoff and testing.
• Triage incidents, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement durable solutions.

Skills

VMware

Windows Server

Linux

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Datadog monitoring

Scripting/Automation

On-call rotation

Infrastructure projects

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Datadog API

Job description

Piper Sandler & Co. is seeking a Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional to join our Platform Engineering team in Minneapolis, MN.

You will help maintain on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, leading medium‑sized projects while improving monitoring, reliability, and security across VMware, Windows, Linux, and cloud environments. The role requires several years of hands‑on experience, a strong ability to work independently, and collaboration with security, networking, and application teams.