Principal Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Performance

Surescripts; Minneapolis, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Hybrid Work Model

Job summary

Surescripts in Minneapolis, MN is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to ensure the stability, efficiency and security of our cloud and on‑premise systems within a health tech ecosystem.

You will lead engineering initiatives, design scalable infrastructure, implement automation with Ansible, monitor performance with Datadog and Grafana, and collaborate across teams to maintain high availability in Google Cloud Platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, information sciences or related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering role
• Experience in a production operation environment with high uptime requirements
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible preferred)
• Knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies - Vmware (vSphere / ESXi 8x) and Kubernetes preferred
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Powershell, Python, Perl)
• Experience with performance, logging and monitoring tools (Zenoss, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Strong background in system metrics analysis and monitoring
• Experience working in cloud environments (GCP preferred)

Responsibilities

• Participate in development of strategic goals and plans for new and existing systems infrastructure
• Research, design, architect, and implement new technologies and solutions that span on-premise and cloud platforms in a method consistent with our security policies and infrastructure-as-code principals
• Implement performance tuning strategies to optimize system performance, resource utilization, and overall efficiency
• Collaborate with other teams to design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions
• Assist in support of issues impacting the performance or reliability of production transactions
• Recommend/implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure system security through secure system access, monitoring and control
• Participate as necessary in routine security evaluations
• Implement automation solutions for system provisioning, configuration management, and performance tuning
• Ensure compliance with policies, standards, licensing agreements, configuration guidelines, and best-practices for maintaining regulatory compliance
• Ensure all systems and processes are well-documented and comply with internal policies and industry standards

Skills

Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, Python, &

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, information sciences or related field

Tools

Ansible

Vmware vSphere/ ESXi

Kubernetes

Zenoss

Splunk

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Surescripts in Minneapolis, MN is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to ensure the stability, efficiency and security of our cloud and on‑premise systems within a health tech ecosystem.

You will lead engineering initiatives, design scalable infrastructure, implement automation with Ansible, monitor performance with Datadog and Grafana, and collaborate across teams to maintain high availability in Google Cloud Platform.