Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Automation

SOLANA FOUNDATION; Manassas (VA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quicknode is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to architect and build next-generation infrastructure platforms across private and public clouds. The role focuses on hybrid environments, integrating bare-metal, virtualization, and orchestration technologies, with a strong emphasis on automation and reliability.

You will drive standardization, cost optimization, and scalable solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure performance and uptime as Quicknode expands

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Systems Administration, Datacenter Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Hybrid cloud and traditional infrastructure platforms at scale (bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud).
• Hands-on with automation and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Consul, Jenkins).
• Experience with observability/monitoring platforms (Grafana, ELK, VictoriaMetrics, DataDog).
• Programming experience in Python, Go, or JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture principles — scalability, redundancy, fault tolerance, cost optimization.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Research, architect, and deploy infrastructure systems across bare-metal, hypervisors, orchestrators, VMs, and containers.
• Design and implement automation to ensure reproducibility and speed of deployments (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD).
• Maintain infrastructure standards, docs, and diagrams for scale and reliability.
• Collaborate with Ops, CloudOps, and Platform teams for smooth system integration and observability.
• Optimize resource allocation and cost efficiency while meeting uptime goals.
• Improve resilience through capacity planning, DR testing, and modernization initiatives.

Skills

Linux

Hybrid cloud

Automation

CI/CD

Observability

Python

Go

JavaScript

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Consul

Jenkins

Grafana

ELK

VictoriaMetrics

DataDog

Docker

Job description

Quicknode is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to architect and build next-generation infrastructure platforms across private and public clouds. The role focuses on hybrid environments, integrating bare-metal, virtualization, and orchestration technologies, with a strong emphasis on automation and reliability.

You will drive standardization, cost optimization, and scalable solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure performance and uptime as Quicknode expands