Senior Engineer, IT Infrastructure Engineering (Data Center)

IHG; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Atlanta office facility

Job summary

IHG Hotels & Resorts invites a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and scale hybrid infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud environments. You will drive reliability, performance, and security, while mentoring junior engineers and leading critical outages.

You will own architecture, pipelines, automation, and capacity planning, partnering with security and ops teams to uphold SOC 2/PCI practices and ensure compliant, resilient platforms.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise across OS, storage, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
• Experience leading infrastructure projects from design to deployment.
• Strong scripting and automation skills for reliability and efficiency.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and drive SRE best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available distributed systems.
• Architect and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid software delivery.
• Write automation scripts to reduce manual work and improve reliability.
• Lead infrastructure projects from design through deployment and support.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote SRE best practices across teams.
• Maintain security baselines and perform regular audits.

Skills

Operating Systems (Windows & Linux)

Enterprise storage

Backup solutions

Virtualization (Nutanix)

Hyper-converged infrastructure

Networking fundamentals

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)

Security practices

Configuration management (Chef, Anible

Orchestration (CloudBolt, Rundeck)

Terraform provisioning

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Shell)

AI in IT infra

Leadership & mentoring

Documentation & communication

Education

Industry certifications (Microsoft, RedHat, Nutanix, VMware, Cisco)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

CloudBolt

Rundeck

Veeam

Job description

Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer

The Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the design, engineering, implementation, deployment, documentation, testing, and ongoing capacity planning of infrastructure solutions, such as hardware, software, and systems configuration solutions.

The individual in this role is expected to think strategically, drive long-term infrastructure improvements, influence technical roadmap decisions, and handle critical, company-wide outages. A key responsibility involves serving as a mentor and coach , where they guide our junior engineers through direct training and technical leadership.

Your Day to Day

• System Reliability & Architecture: Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable distributed systems. Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to measure and ensure system health.
• Release Engineering & CI/CD Pipelines: Architect and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, safe, and repeatable software delivery.
• Automation & Engineering: Reduce manual, repetitive work by writing code and automation scripts using languages like Python, PowerShell, or Java to improve efficiency and system reliability.
• Advanced Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to correlate and troubleshoot complex issues across diverse platforms. This individual serves as the final point of escalation for high-impact technical challenges, utilizing command-line mastery and interactive shells to resolve deep-system anomalies.
• Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: Serve as the technical lead for hybrid infrastructure , managing the full lifecycle of on-prem and cloud-based resources .
• Monitoring & Observability: Develop the strategic roadmap for monitoring and observability across the hybrid environment.
• Capacity Planning & Performance: Analyze system resource usage to forecast and manage capacity, ensuring systems handle traffic growth.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor junior team members, conduct code reviews, and promote SRE best practices across the organization.
• Security & Compliance: Maintain a high-security baseline for all platform services, ensuring compliance with SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or CIS Benchmarks where applicable. Conduct regular security audits, manage encryption protocols, and ensure all infrastructure follows the principle of least privilege.

What We Need from You

• Deep expertise and hands-on experience in multiple domains: Operating Systems (Windows and Linux), Enterprise storage, Backup (Veeam /Other solutions), Virtualization (Nutanix), hyper-converged systems, networking and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP). Strong proficiency in Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, DNS, VPN, SMTP)
• Experience in Security practices (SSL/TLS, SSH, encryption, LDAP). Experience in implementing configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible). Design and build experience in orchestration using Cloudbolt / Rundeck.
• Expertise in building and maintaining code-driven infrastructure using Terraform for provisioning, combined with Python, Shell, and PowerShell for advanced scripting and operational automation.
• Experience evaluating and integrating AI-driven tools into existing IT infrastructure workflows to optimize operational efficiency and enhance automated processes.
• Proven ability to lead infrastructure projects from design through deployment.
• Experience building and managing physical infrastructure in on-prem or hybrid environments. Experience providing technical guidance to external vendors and partners.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Excellent skills in communication, documentation, and mentoring others.
• Create and update technical documentation, standards, and procedures to support consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Industry certifications such as Microsoft, Redhat, Nutanix, VMware, Backup / Storage solution / Cisco, or security-related credentials are a plus.

Travel - limited 10%

Location

Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in the ATLANTA office. This expectation may be adjusted with the changing needs of the business.

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Important information

• The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
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