Lead Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Infrastructure Operations)

FactSet; Virginia; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FactSet’s Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure team in Virginia seeks a Lead Infrastructure Operations Engineer to own infrastructure operations, drive deployments, and mentor engineers.

You will collaborate with directors and partners to align goals, optimize tooling, and manage vendor relationships while ensuring scalable, cost-efficient data-center services. The role emphasizes leadership, reliability, and continuous improvement across infrastructure platforms.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data center or enterprise infrastructure operations.
• Bachelor degree in computer science or related field.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and rollouts from planning through delivery.
• Experience with alerting, monitoring, and incident management in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical owner of infrastructure operations at the Virginia data center.
• Lead the enhancement of infrastructure software and hardware tooling to improve deployment, connectivity, and user experience.
• Provide project management and technical oversight for large-scale technology rollouts and facility buildouts.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure design, with a focus on autonomy and scalability.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex production issues, and act as the escalation point for infrastructure support.
• Partner with director-level stakeholders and other departments to align goals and integrate tools, systems, and projects.
• Manage contractor and vendor relationships to deliver regionalized services and contracts that are cost-conscious and beneficial to end users.
• Champion best practices, coach and mentor engineers, and foster technical excellence across the team.
• Monitor capacity across our infrastructure in the datacenter.

Skills

Data center operations

Project leadership

Vendor management

Mentoring engineers

Incident management

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

DCIM tooling

ITSM tooling

Automation scripting

Job description

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate, serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big role in how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipating our clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations.

Join FactSet's Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure team as the Lead Infrastructure Operations Engineer, the senior technical owner of infrastructure operations at our Virginia data center. You will combine hands-on engineering, project oversight, vendor and stakeholder management, and mentorship to keep the facility and its supporting infrastructure reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.

As a key member of our collaborative team, you will be the point of contact between the data center, partner departments, and director-level stakeholders. You will help ensure that the tools and processes behind our infrastructure keep improving.

What You'll Do

• 6+ Serve as the senior technical owner of infrastructure operations at the Virginia data center.
• Lead the enhancement of infrastructure software and hardware tooling to improve deployment, connectivity, and the user experience.
• Provide project management and technical oversight for large-scale technology rollouts and facility buildouts.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure design, with a focus on autonomy and scalability.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex production issues, and act as the escalation point for infrastructure support.
• Partner with director-level stakeholders and other departments to align goals and integrate tools, systems, and projects.
• Manage contractor and vendor relationships to deliver regionalized services and contracts that are cost-conscious and beneficial to end users.
• Champion best practices, coach and mentor engineers, and foster technical excellence across the team.
• Monitor capacity across our infrastructure in the datacenter.

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience in data center or enterprise infrastructure operations, including hardware, networking, and systems support, with a record of increasing responsibility.
• Bachelor degree in computer science or related.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and rollouts from planning through delivery.
• Experience with alerting, monitoring, and incident management in a production environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including with director-level and cross-departmental audiences.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers.

Nice To Have

• Experience negotiating and managing vendor and contractor relationships, particularly with telecoms.
• Experience with hybrid (on-premises and cloud) infrastructure environments.
• Scripting or automation skills used to improve operational tooling and deployment.
• Experience with facility buildouts, colocation, or regional service and contract management.
• Experience managing assets with ITSM and DCIM tooling.

Company Overview

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more atwww.factset.comand follow us onXandLinkedIn.

At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. FactSet participates in E-Verify