On-Prem Infra Engineer: Performance & Automation

Humamaria; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

WebstaurantStore is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer focused on server performance and automated workflows to support our on-premises infrastructure and automate deployments of physical and virtualized workloads. The role involves building high-performance computing solutions for AI workloads, web apps, and other resource-intensive operations using IaC and DevOps practices.

This position emphasizes on-premises infrastructure rather than cloud administration, with remote eligibility conditioned

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure engineering, or related fields.
• Experience supporting on-premises or co-located data center infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise server hardware and virtual infrastructure (VMware vSphere/ESXi; vCenter HA).
• Experience supporting Windows Server and Linux environments, including RHEL, Ubuntu, and Rocky Linux.
• Familiarity with SQL Server infrastructure as well as NVIDIA GPU-based server and workstation hardware.
• Understanding of performance tuning, capacity planning, and observability.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues, perform root cause analysis, and support disaster recovery efforts.
• Familiarity with hardware administration, RAID configuration, driver management, lifecycle management, and remote management tools such as iDRAC.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize physical servers (Dell), VMware vSphere/ESXi, SQL Server environments, GPU-accelerated AI and 3D render servers.
• Own infrastructure performance tuning across compute including physical and virtualization layers to improve reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks, capacity constraints, and performance risks using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Investigate physical server issues end to end, perform root cause analysis, and determine corrective solutions.
• Manage physical and virtual infrastructure and support DBRE, Security, SRE, Media, and Automated Warehouses teams.
• Manage and maintain code repositories, keeping configurations up to date in the code base, and support code review processes.
• Support server lifecycle management including provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, hardware refreshes, decommissioning.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Operations to install and rack server equipment in data centers; plan datacenter resources.
• Perform hardware diagnostics, firmware and BIOS updates, RAID configuration, driver management, and out-of-band administration via iDRAC.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity efforts, including failover testing, backup and restoration readiness.
• Contribute to migrations, platform rollouts, performance initiatives, and hardware modernization projects.
• Navigate Windows Server and Linux environments (RHEL, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux) and collaborate with stakeholders to solve complex infrastructure problems.

Skills

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Windows Server

Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu/Rocky)

SQL Server

NVIDIA GPU hardware

Performance tuning

Observability

Disaster recovery

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Dell iDRAC / remote management

VMware vCenter HA

Job description

WebstaurantStore is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer focused on server performance and automated workflows to support our on-premises infrastructure and automate deployments of physical and virtualized workloads. The role involves building high-performance computing solutions for AI workloads, web apps, and other resource-intensive operations using IaC and DevOps practices.

This position emphasizes on-premises infrastructure rather than cloud administration, with remote eligibility conditioned