Infrastructure Engineer

Strata Decision Technology; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Strata Decision Technology is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and support infrastructure for our SaaS applications in Chicago. You will help ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability through monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous improvement.

You will partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams to operate our environment today while identifying opportunities to improve how we work tomorrow.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, cloud, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef).
• Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance optimization, and capacity planning.
• Strong systems-level troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with root-cause analysis.
• Automation mindset to identify repetitive work and improve efficiency.
• Willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies and apply them.
• Strong engineering judgment and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, and Engineering to improve platform reliability, performance, and deployments.
• Apply reliability practices across observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and DR.
• Troubleshoot complex infra and production issues; identify root causes and implement solutions.
• Automate deployments, upgrades, maintenance, using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Identify tech debt and single points of failure; improve reliability, scalability, resilience.
• Monitor system and application performance to proactively identify issues.
• Contribute to modernization across cloud, DR, virtualization, containerization, platform architecture.
• Evaluate new technologies and provide recommendations to improve performance or cost.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and best practices.
• Contribute to long-term technical roadmap and continuous improvement priorities.

Skills

Infra/SRE experience

Troubleshooting

Automation mindset

Collaboration & communication

Continuous learning

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Salt

Puppet

Chef

Job description

How You'll Make an Impact

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join our team at Strata. In this role, you will design, implement, and support infrastructure systems that enable the reliability, performance, and scalability of our SaaS applications. You will help ensure our platforms and systems maintain high availability and resilience through proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous improvement.

Partnering closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams, you will help operate and support our environment today while identifying opportunities to improve how we work for the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud, and Engineering teams to improve platform reliability, performance, and application deployment processes.
• Apply reliability engineering practices across observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues across systems and technologies, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions.
• Automate infrastructure deployments, upgrades, maintenance, and other repetitive operational work using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, single points of failure, and opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, and resilience of the environment.
• Monitor and analyze system and application performance to proactively identify issues and opportunities for optimization.
• Contribute to infrastructure modernization initiatives across cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery, virtualization, containerization, and platform architecture.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and alternative solutions, bringing forward recommendations that improve performance, reliability, operational efficiency, or cost.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, runbooks, and technical best practices.
• Contribute to the Infrastructure team's longer-term technical roadmap and continuous improvement priorities.

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, cloud, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience designing, supporting, and troubleshooting enterprise data center infrastructure, with an understanding of modern infrastructure practices across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance optimization, and capacity planning.
• Strong systems-level troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex issues across multiple technologies, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions.
• An automation mindset with the ability to identify repetitive work and build solutions that improve reliability and operational efficiency.
• Curiosity and a continuous-learning mindset, with the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technologies and apply that knowledge to solve problems.
• Strong engineering judgment and a willingness to question existing approaches, evaluate alternatives, and recommend better solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and Engineering teams.

Estimated Salary Range

$95,000-120,000

Actual salary will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skill set and level of experience. This salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on role. In addition, Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, life and accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.

Find Out More About Strata Benefits Here.

How we work:

Our preferred location for open roles is Chicago, IL. We value in-person connection and regularly host on-campus events to create meaningful opportunities for our team to build relationships and collaborate

Should you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please reach out to [e-mail].

Here @ Strata

Our culture is driven by our people solving problems together. We embrace learning, collaboration, and continuous career growth. Together, we lift our customers, our products, our company, and our community.

We believe that each of our team member's unique perspectives and experiences is what drives innovation and positive change. Our individual differences are what make us a more forward-thinking organization. We foster a culture of inclusion, equity and belonging, regardless of race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

Our Core Values:

• We connect with positive intent.
• We are helpful.
• We own it.
• We get better every day.
• We are humble.