Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Yoh Idibu; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Referral Bonus Programs

Certification and training

Job summary

Yoh is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer, and support enterprise infrastructure across offices, engineering environments, data centers, and hybrid cloud platforms. You will lead efforts for Active Directory, compute, virtualization, storage, backup, and DR in a multi-site environment.

The role requires hands-on leadership while setting scalable, secure infrastructure standards. Located in the San Mateo Bay Area with regular onsite presence, the contract position offers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• 8+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Active Directory, including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, and replication.
• Experience with compute, virtualization, and storage platforms (VMware/Hyper-V/KVM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC).
• Experience designing backup, replication, DR, and business continuity solutions.
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize AD and core identity infrastructure, including cloud identity integrations.
• Engineer and operate compute, virtualization, and storage infrastructure for multiple sites and workloads.
• Plan capacity and infrastructure sizing for new workloads and data center deployments.
• Implement monitoring and observability for infrastructure availability and performance.
• Lead infrastructure projects from design through implementation and mentoring.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and network teams to ensure hardened and compliant environments.

Skills

Active Directory

Linux administration

Windows Server

Infrastructure design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Bash

VMware

KVM

Job description

Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud & Infrastructure Overview Yoh is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer, and support enterprise infrastructure across corporate offices, engineering environments, data centers, and hybrid cloud platforms.

This role will provide senior technical leadership across Active Directory, compute, virtualization, storage, backup and disaster recovery, and core infrastructure services. The ideal candidate will remain hands-on while helping define scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure standards in a complex, multi-site environment.

Location: San Mateo or surrounding San Francisco Bay Area

Job Type: Contract

Work Arrangement: Hybrid with regular onsite presence required

Estimated Compensation: $90–$110/hour, depending on experience

Responsibilities Systems Engineering

• Serve as a senior technical resource for complex infrastructure requirements and technical challenges.
• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize Microsoft Active Directory and core identity infrastructure, including domain services, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, replication, and cloud identity integrations.
• Engineer and operate enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage infrastructure supporting business, engineering, and mission-critical workloads.
• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms, including capacity planning, performance, availability, data protection, replication, and lifecycle management.
• Support compute platforms across data centers, colocation facilities, corporate offices, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Support virtualization, GPU-accelerated infrastructure, VDI, and specialized engineering workloads.
• Engineer and maintain Windows and Linux server infrastructure.
• Perform capacity planning and infrastructure sizing for new workloads, engineering environments, site expansions, and data center deployments.
• Design, deploy, and maintain data center and colocation infrastructure, including server and storage platforms, rack-level deployments, hardware lifecycle management, resiliency, and coordination with external providers.

Resiliency, Operations, and Automation

• Design and continuously improve backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-resiliency solutions.
• Define and support recovery architecture, replication strategies, recovery objectives, testing, documentation, and disaster-recovery exercises.
• Implement monitoring and observability for infrastructure availability, capacity, performance, and reliability.
• Identify opportunities for proactive improvement before they become operational issues.
• Develop infrastructure automation and repeatable deployment patterns using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Support integration between on-premises infrastructure and AWS or Azure environments.
• Support containerized or Kubernetes-based infrastructure where appropriate.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure incidents.
• Serve as an escalation point for critical production issues.
• Participate in on-call, emergency-response, and planned-maintenance activities as required.

Technical Leadership and Collaboration

• Partner with cybersecurity teams on infrastructure hardening, vulnerability remediation, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with network engineering teams on infrastructure connectivity and technical dependencies while maintaining clear ownership boundaries.
• Lead infrastructure projects and technical initiatives from design through implementation.
• Develop architecture standards, operational documentation, and handoff procedures.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance while remaining hands-on with infrastructure engineering and implementation.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, operating procedures, and engineering best practices.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Eight or more years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in production environments.
• Advanced experience administering and engineering Microsoft Active Directory, including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, and replication.
• Strong experience with enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong Windows Server administration experience.
• Working proficiency with Linux systems such as RHEL or Ubuntu.
• Experience designing and implementing backup, replication, disaster recovery, and business-continuity solutions.
• Experience with RTO/RPO planning, disaster-recovery testing, and recovery exercises.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises environments and AWS and/or Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, establish engineering standards, troubleshoot ambiguous problems, and mentor other engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a structured, process-driven environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting infrastructure in high-availability, mission-critical, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or engineering environments.
• Deep experience with enterprise storage and data-protection ecosystems, including NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience designing infrastructure across multiple offices, engineering sites, laboratories, data centers, or colocation environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes or containerized workloads and the underlying compute, storage, and infrastructure requirements.
• Experience supporting GPU compute, high-performance computing, or other accelerated engineering workloads.
• Experience with VDI platforms such as VMware Horizon, Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Experience operating in security-conscious or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure controls aligned with frameworks such as NIST or CMMC.
• Relevant technical certifications, such as VMware VCP, Microsoft, NetApp, AWS, Azure, or equivalent certifications.

Additional Requirements

• Must be located in or able to commute to the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Must be able to work onsite regularly in the San Mateo area.
• Must be available to participate in on-call, emergency-response, and scheduled-maintenance activities.
• Must comply with applicable workplace, security, confidentiality, and access requirements.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check conducted after a conditional offer, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law.

Estimated Min Rate: $77.00

Estimated Max Rate: $110.00

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description.

What’s In It for You?

We welcome you to be a part of the largest and legendary global staffing companies to meet your career aspirations. Yoh’s network of client companies has been employing professionals like you for over 65 years in the U.S., UK and Canada. Join Yoh’s extensive talent community that will provide you with access to Yoh’s vast network of opportunities and gain access to this exclusive opportunity available to you. Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• MetLife Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities

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