Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer (12-Month Contract)

Brooksource; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 92,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Brooksource is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support its Data Center Automation initiative. This hands‑on role focuses on configuring, troubleshooting, and ensuring readiness of on‑prem and cloud infrastructure for deployments via Ansible and Terraform.

You'll collaborate with networking, security, and IAM teams in a regulated enterprise. The ideal candidate has 7–10+ years in infrastructure engineering, strong Linux/Windows experience, RBAC/IAM, and virtualization

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of hands‑on experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, server engineering, or network engineering.
• Experience administering and troubleshooting enterprise Linux and/or Windows servers.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, DNS, routing, connectivity troubleshooting, and firewall concepts.
• Experience investigating firewall restrictions and coordinating firewall rule requests or network access changes.
• Experience managing user accounts, service accounts, permissions, and authentication configurations.
• Familiarity with RBAC, IAM, Active Directory, LDAP, SSH, or similar access‑management technologies.
• Understanding of infrastructure security controls and enterprise change‑management processes.
• Experience troubleshooting production infrastructure issues and working with multiple technical teams to resolve them.
• Experience with VMware, Hyper‑V, or comparable virtualization platforms.
• Ability to independently investigate technical issues, identify dependencies, and coordinate their resolution.

Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot Linux and/or Windows server infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Investigate connectivity issues that prevent automation platforms from communicating with servers and infrastructure systems.
• Diagnose network, DNS, firewall, routing, and authentication issues to identify the source of deployment failures.
• Submit and coordinate firewall rule changes, network access requests, and security approvals.
• Configure and troubleshoot user permissions, service accounts, RBAC, and authentication methods.
• Work with identity and access management (IAM) and security teams to resolve authorization and access restrictions.
• Support infrastructure readiness for deployments managed through Ansible and Terraform, without being responsible for developing the automation code.
• Troubleshoot server configurations, operating system issues, and VMware or similar virtualization environments.
• Follow enterprise change-management and security procedures when making infrastructure changes.
• Partner with automation engineers, server administrators, network engineers, and security teams to resolve deployment blockers.
• Document troubleshooting steps, infrastructure changes, and resolutions.
• Share infrastructure knowledge with junior engineers and participate in the team's agile workflows.

Skills

Linux

Windows servers

TCP/IP networking

DNS

RBAC

IAM

Active Directory

LDAP

SSH

Firewall concepts

VMware

Hyper-V

Ansible

Terraform

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Brooksource is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support its Data Center Automation initiative. This hands‑on role focuses on configuring, troubleshooting, and ensuring readiness of on‑prem and cloud infrastructure for deployments via Ansible and Terraform.

You'll collaborate with networking, security, and IAM teams in a regulated enterprise. The ideal candidate has 7–10+ years in infrastructure engineering, strong Linux/Windows experience, RBAC/IAM, and virtualization