Infrastructure Delivery Engineer

Red8; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Red8 is seeking an Infrastructure Delivery Engineer in Houston, TX, to implement, configure, migrate, and support enterprise infrastructure solutions. Role involves hands-on delivery, onsite and remote work across servers, storage, virtualization, networking, data protection, and related technologies.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of hands-on experience, strong cross-vendor expertise, and the ability to translate designs and SOWs into production deployments while coordinating with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on enterprise infrastructure implementation experience.
• Experience implementing multiple technology areas: servers, storage, virtualization, networking, data protection, HCI.
• Experience with multiple manufacturers' infrastructure.
• Strong TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, SAN/NAS, and data protection concepts.
• Ability to travel to customer locations and data centers as required.

Responsibilities

• Implement, configure, upgrade, migrate, and troubleshoot enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Perform remote and on-site deployments at data centers, offices, and colocation facilities.
• Deploy and configure enterprise server platforms from leading manufacturers.
• Implement and support enterprise storage and data protection platforms.
• Deploy virtualization and HCI platforms and manage cluster deployment and upgrades.
• Provide project plans, migration plans, MOPs, change plans, and validation plans.

Skills

Infrastructure delivery

Customer-facing

Documentation

Communication

Travel readiness

Tools

Dell Technologies

Nutanix

VMware

NetApp

Cisco

Arista

Job description

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Infrastructure Delivery Engineer

Houston, TX, US

Salary Range: $120,000.00 To $150,000.00 Annually

Position Summary

The Infrastructure Delivery Engineer is responsible for the successful implementation, configuration, migration, integration, and support of enterprise infrastructure solutions for our customers. This is a customer-facing, hands-on technical role delivering projects both onsite and remotely across server, storage, virtualization, networking, data protection, and related infrastructure technologies.

The Infrastructure Delivery Engineer works closely with Solutions Architects, Project Managers, Customer Success teams, technology partners, and customer IT teams to translate approved designs and Statements of Work (SOWs) into successfully deployed production solutions.

The ideal candidate is a broad infrastructure technologist with strong implementation experience across multiple vendors and technologies and the ability to independently execute projects in complex customer environments.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Implementation

Implement, configure, upgrade, migrate, and troubleshoot enterprise infrastructure solutions including:

• Physical and virtual server infrastructure
• Virtualization and hypervisor environments
• Data center and campus networking
• Backup, recovery, and data protection solutions
• Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
• Infrastructure management and monitoring platforms
• Cloud and hybrid infrastructure components

Perform implementations both remotely and at customer locations, including data centers, corporate offices, branch locations, and colocation facilities.

Server & Compute

Deploy and configure enterprise server platforms from leading manufacturers such as:

• Dell Technologies
• Supermicro
• Nutanix
• Other enterprise compute platforms

Responsibilities may include hardware installation, firmware updates, BIOS configuration, RAID configuration, operating system installation, network configuration, management platform integration, and production validation.

Storage

Implement and support enterprise storage solutions including SAN, NAS, object, and software-defined storage platforms.

Technology experience may include:

• NetApp
• Dell Technologies
• Pure Storage
• Nutanix
• Other enterprise storage technologies

Perform storage provisioning, host connectivity, zoning, multipathing, replication, data migration, performance validation, and integration with virtualized and physical environments.

Virtualization & Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Deploy, upgrade, migrate, and troubleshoot virtualization and HCI platforms including:

• VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Nutanix AHV
• Red Hat virtualization technologies
• Other enterprise virtualization platforms

Responsibilities may include cluster deployment, host configuration, virtual networking, shared storage integration, VM migration, high availability configuration, lifecycle management, and platform upgrades.

Networking

Install, configure, and validate networking infrastructure including:

• Ethernet switching
• Routing
• VLANs and segmentation
• Management networks
• Storage networking
• Basic firewall and security integration

Technology exposure may include Cisco, Arista, HPE Aruba, Juniper, NVIDIA Networking, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and other major networking platforms.

Backup & Data Protection

Deploy and configure enterprise backup, recovery, replication, and data protection platforms.

Technology experience may include:

• Commvault
• Rubrik
• Dell Technologies
• NetApp
• Other enterprise data protection platforms

Configure backup policies, repositories, replication, retention policies, application integration, recovery procedures, and monitoring.

Project Delivery

Review Statements of Work, architecture diagrams, bills of materials, implementation plans, and technical designs prior to project execution.

Develop or contribute to:

• Implementation plans
• Migration plans
• Methods of Procedure (MOPs)
• Change plans
• Backout plans
• Test and validation plans

Execute assigned project tasks according to defined scope, schedule, technical requirements, and customer change-control processes.

Identify technical risks, dependencies, design gaps, and potential scope changes and elevate them to the Project Manager and/or Solutions Architect.

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer

Maintain accurate technical documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

• As-built configurations
• Configuration records
• IP and connectivity information
• Operational procedures
• Backup configurations
• Support information
• Known issues and recommendations

Provide knowledge-transfer sessions to customer technical teams following implementation.

Customer-Facing Responsibilities

Represent the company professionally at customer locations and during remote engagements.

Communicate technical activities, implementation status, risks, issues, and next steps clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Build trusted relationships with customer infrastructure teams and serve as a technical point of contact during implementation.

Recognize opportunities where additional services, modernization, remediation, or architectural assistance may benefit the customer and communicate those opportunities internally.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on enterprise infrastructure implementation experience.
• Strong experience implementing at least three of the following technology areas:
  • Servers and compute
  • Enterprise storage
  • Virtualization
  • Networking
  • Backup and data protection
  • Hyperconverged infrastructure
• Experience working with enterprise infrastructure from multiple manufacturers.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, SAN/NAS, virtualization, and data protection concepts.
• Experience performing infrastructure upgrades and migrations in production environments.
• Ability to read and implement technical architecture diagrams and detailed designs.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis skills.
• Experience working within formal change-control processes.
• Ability to work independently during customer implementations.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with customers, architects, project managers, vendors, and other engineers.
• Ability to travel to customer locations and data centers as required.
• Ability to support occasional evening or weekend implementation and maintenance windows.

Preferred Qualifications

Technical certifications from one or more major infrastructure vendors are preferred, including certifications from Cisco, Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, Nutanix, VMware, Microsoft, Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity, Arista, NVIDIA, Palo Alto, Cisco

Experience working for a VAR, systems integrator, managed services provider, OEM, or professional services organization is highly desirable.

Insight Investments, Corp is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, status as a Veteran or other protected classification.