Platform Core Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud & On‑Prem

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

Job summary

Piper Sandler is hiring a Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional to join the Platform Engineering team in Minneapolis, MN. You will support and improve on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, lead small‑to‑medium projects, and advance monitoring and observability with Datadog.

The role targets engineers with several years of hands‑on experience who can work independently, contribute to technical decisions, and grow into a trusted infrastructure architect and technology strategist within a

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.
• Ability to interpret infrastructure metrics, logs, events, performance data, and capacity trends.
• Experience with server patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and incident response.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead infrastructure projects and coordinate work across technical teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Willingness to participate in a scheduled on‑call rotation.

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:
• Perform operating system and infrastructure patching, upgrades, lifecycle management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation and respond to infrastructure incidents outside normal business hours when required.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, conduct root‑cause analysis, and implement durable solutions.
• Lead selected infrastructure projects, including requirements gathering, planning, implementation, testing, documentation, and operational handoff.
• Monitor and manage infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, operational procedures, asset information, and disaster‑recovery plans.
• Collaborate with security, networking, application, cloud, and business teams.
• Automate routine operational tasks using scripting, configuration‑management, and infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• Assist infrastructure leadership with architecture planning, technology roadmaps, budgeting, risk management, and the company’s overall infrastructure and cloud strategy.
• Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to other team members.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

Linux administration

Datadog monitoring

Infrastructure automation

On-call support

Project leadership

Networking basics

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Job description

Piper Sandler is hiring a Core Infrastructure Engineer – Professional to join the Platform Engineering team in Minneapolis, MN. You will support and improve on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, lead small‑to‑medium projects, and advance monitoring and observability with Datadog.

The role targets engineers with several years of hands‑on experience who can work independently, contribute to technical decisions, and grow into a trusted infrastructure architect and technology strategist within a