Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Open-Source Migration Lead

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United States

Hybrid

USD 79,000 - 112,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Hack The Box is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build and evolve compute, storage and container platforms across data centers in the US, EU, Singapore and Australia. You will help migrate from VMware toward an open-source virtualization and cloud platform, operating VMware vSphere, Ceph and Kubernetes, and driving automation with Ansible and Terraform.

You will participate in a hybrid/remote setup with relocation support, extensive on-call rotation, and a focus on secure, scalable

Qualifications

3–5 years of professional experience in infrastructure, systems or platform engineering.
Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere administration (cluster management, resource pools, vMotion, HA/DRS).
Working knowledge of VMware NSX or similar software-defined networking.
Experience administering Ceph storage (or comparable distributed storage systems).
Solid Kubernetes operations experience (deployment, upgrades, troubleshooting, cluster lifecycle).
Strong Linux systems administration skills (Debian).
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform).
Comfortable working with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana).
Good written communication skills for documentation and remote-first collaboration.
Being cyber security-minded is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Operate and maintain VMware vSphere clusters and NSX-based virtual networking across multiple data center sites.
Administer Ceph storage clusters, including NVMEoF-backed pools and RBD volumes.
Deploy, upgrade and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running on bare-metal and virtualized infrastructure.
Contribute to evaluating and proving concepts for migrating from VMware to an open-source platform.
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Ansible playbooks, Terraform modules) for repeatable deployments.
Monitor infrastructure health and performance using Prometheus, Grafana and alerting pipelines; respond to incidents.
Collaborate with the network engineering team on data center connectivity and storage-network performance.
Support hardware lifecycle operations: racking, provisioning, firmware updates and decommissioning across regions.
Write and maintain technical documentation, runbooks and post-incident reviews.
Participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure-related incidents.