Senior Data Center Automation & Infrastructure Engineer

IDR, Inc.; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Full benefits

Industry leader

Job summary

IDR, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure & Automation Engineer to join one of our top clients for an enterprise infrastructure opportunity. The role focuses on engineering, lifecycle management, automation, and operational support of enterprise server infrastructure across multiple data centers.

You will own the lifecycle, automate deployment and provisioning, manage firmware and OS, and work with data center teams and vendors to ensure platform stability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience supporting enterprise server infrastructure in large-scale production environments.
• Strong understanding of server hardware architecture including compute, memory, storage, networking and out-of-band management technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience developing self-healing infrastructure or automated remediation workflows is a plus.
• Experience coordinating repairs, replacements, and vendor support in enterprise data centers.

Responsibilities

• Own the lifecycle of enterprise server infrastructure across multiple data centers.
• Automate server deployment, provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and hardware replacement.
• Manage server hardware, firmware, drivers, and Windows/Linux operating systems.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across hardware, firmware, and operating systems.
• Build Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management solutions to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Partner with data center teams, vendors, and infrastructure teams to resolve issues and maintain platform stability.

Skills

Server infrastructure

Automation

Troubleshooting

DevOps mindset

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Go

C#

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep

Puppet

Chef

Git

ITSM platforms

Job description

IDR, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure & Automation Engineer to join one of our top clients for an enterprise infrastructure opportunity. The role focuses on engineering, lifecycle management, automation, and operational support of enterprise server infrastructure across multiple data centers.

You will own the lifecycle, automate deployment and provisioning, manage firmware and OS, and work with data center teams and vendors to ensure platform stability and reliability.