Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer (Terraform + Ansible)

Pinnaclearc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

We are seeking an Infrastructure Reliability Engineer to enhance reliability, automation, security, and operability across enterprise infrastructure in cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes Terraform + Ansible automation, Windows and Unix/Linux operations, and strong vulnerability remediation ownership across servers, platforms, and containerized workloads.

Key responsibilities include leading remediation of vulnerabilities, establishing patching lifecycles, building IaC

Qualifications

• 13+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Production Operations.
• Proven hands-on automation with Terraform and Ansible in real production environments.
• Strong administration and troubleshooting across Windows and Unix/Linux.
• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure areas (compute, network, storage, load balancing, security controls).
• Practical incident management experience (on-call, RCA/postmortems, operational improvements).
• Demonstrated experience with vulnerability remediation (actual patching and verification).
• Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, and cloud-native monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead remediation of infrastructure vulnerabilities across Windows, Linux, middleware, and Frontier AI platform components.
• Drive closure of control findings, audit items, and cyber remediation commitments within agreed timelines.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Application Development teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities at scale.
• Establish sustainable patching, upgrade, and lifecycle management processes to reduce recurring findings.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across cloud and/or virtualized environments.
• Automate configuration, provisioning, patching, and deployments using Ansible across Linux/Unix and Windows estates.
• Standardize environments (dev/test/stage/prod), build reusable modules/playbooks, and enforce configuration consistency (prevent drift).
• Operate and troubleshoot infrastructure components end-to-end including compute (VMs/servers), virtualization (VMware or equivalent), networking (DNS, routing, VPNs, proxies), load balancers, and security controls.
• Partner with application teams to ensure infrastructure supports scalable, reliable application delivery.
• Implement and support CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Cloud Deployment) and enable safe release patterns (blue/green, canary, automated rollback).
• Build and maintain monitoring/alerting dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
• Improve MTTR through better telemetry and define/drive reliability outcomes using SLIs/SLOs.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Windows administration

Linux administration

Vulnerability remediation

SRE/DevOps

Observability tooling

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

Splunk

Job description

We are seeking an Infrastructure Reliability Engineer to enhance reliability, automation, security, and operability across enterprise infrastructure in cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes Terraform + Ansible automation, Windows and Unix/Linux operations, and strong vulnerability remediation ownership across servers, platforms, and containerized workloads.

Key responsibilities include leading remediation of vulnerabilities, establishing patching lifecycles, building IaC