Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Network Observability

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer focused on network observability, packet broker platforms, and data visibility. You will design and operate systems to collect network traffic from observation points and deliver data to security, operations, and monitoring teams.

The role requires senior-level expertise with SPAN, TAP, aggregation, filtering, and delivery in large packet-broker environments using Gigamon or Arista DMF, with a strong networking

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
• Develops and applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and external partners to integrate new technologies and continuously improve infrastructure standards and processes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.

Skills

7+ years experience

Enterprise infrastructure

Automation & IaC

Packet broker observability

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelors degree in CS/Engineering/IS or related

Tools

Wireshark

tcpdump

Job description

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

1st shift (United States of America)

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Please review the following job description:

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer specializing in network observability, packet-broker platforms, and data visibility. This role will design, engineer, and operate the infrastructure used to collect network traffic from physical and virtual observation points and reliably deliver that data to internal security, operations, performance, and application-monitoring customers. The ideal candidate will have senior-level experience with SPAN, TAP, aggregation, filtering, replication, deduplication, load balancing, and tool delivery in large packet-broker environments using technologies such as Arista DMF and Gigamon. A strong traditional networking foundation is essential, but this is not a traditional routing and switching role. Success requires understanding how to turn raw network traffic into a reliable, scalable, and supportable observability service.

For this opportunity: Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the infrastructure engineering department or job area results and contributes to the development of goals for area of responsibility.
• Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
• Develops and applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
• Manages large infrastructure projects and programs aligned with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and external partners to integrate new technologies and continuously improve infrastructure standards and processes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.
• Ensures compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory adherence.
• Reviews infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to support operational consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Provides strong technical guidance, training, and direction to infrastructure teams and lower-level technical professionals.
• Demonstrates innovative influence with stakeholders in supporting business objectives and technical strategic objectives.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in network observability, packet broker engineering, network visibility, network monitoring, or a related infrastructure engineering discipline.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale packet broker and network visibility environments, including Gigamon, Arista DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF), or comparable technologies.
• Deep expertise in traffic acquisition and delivery architectures utilizing TAPs, SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN, packet aggregation, filtering, deduplication, load balancing, masking, slicing, encapsulation, and traffic distribution to downstream tools and consumers.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, data center architectures, and traffic flows, including Ethernet, VLANs, VXLAN, TCP/IP, routing, switching, overlays, load balancers, firewalls, and east-west/north-south traffic patterns.
• Experience designing and managing packet delivery services that support multiple consumers across security, observability, application performance monitoring, network detection and response, packet capture, and analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and troubleshoot packet visibility challenges, including packet loss, asymmetric routing, traffic duplication, oversubscription, saturated monitoring links, filtering errors, tool-ingestion limitations, and end-to-end visibility gaps.
• Experience evaluating network topologies, application architectures, segmentation models, and business requirements to determine optimal observation points and traffic acquisition strategies.
• Strong knowledge of packet analysis and troubleshooting methodologies using tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience integrating packet broker platforms with enterprise tools, operational processes, and monitoring consumers while maintaining ownership, traceability, lifecycle management, and service expectations.
• Familiarity with automation and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts, including GitLab CI/CD, Ansible Automation Platform, APIs