Staff Resident Engineer – Federal DDI & Automation

Infoblox; Virginia; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Infoblox is seeking a Staff Resident Engineer to join the Federal Professional Services team, embedded on-site at a U.S. government facility in the Washington DC metro area.

You will act as the primary Infoblox engineering resource, operating DDI and security services across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, while driving automation and AI-assisted analysis to improve resilience and performance. You will collaborate with Infoblox Support, Engineering, and customer teams, delivering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in

Responsibilities

• Embed with a federal customer as the primary Infoblox engineering resource, focusing on its environment, objectives, and mission priorities
• Operate, administer, and optimize Infoblox DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) and related security services across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments
• Prepare, validate, and deploy Infoblox appliance and software configurations for new implementations, upgrades, and approved changes within the customer’s network
• Perform recurring health checks, grid audits, and performance tuning, including configuration reviews, recursive limits, RPZs, and syslog and query-capture analysis
• Execute software upgrades, lifecycle reviews, CVE patching, and hotfix validation in accordance with federal change-management windows
• Develop and maintain fault-diagnosis, incident-response, and runbook procedures that incorporate automation and AI-assisted analytics where appropriate
• Own open Infoblox support cases and drive them to resolution by coordinating escalations with Infoblox Support and Engineering
• Assess network topology, redundancy, and scalability, and deliver clear architecture recommendations and roadmaps to customer and Infoblox leadership
• Maintain a unified recommendations tracker and provide regular status updates, risk summaries, and executive-ready reports
• Use scripting, automation, and AI-assisted tools for log and query analysis, anomaly detection, configuration validation, documentation support, and improved mean time to resolution

Tools

DDI (DNS/DHCP/IPAM)

Automation

AI-assisted tooling

Scripting

Job description

Infoblox is seeking a Staff Resident Engineer to join the Federal Professional Services team, embedded on-site at a U.S. government facility in the Washington DC metro area.

You will act as the primary Infoblox engineering resource, operating DDI and security services across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, while driving automation and AI-assisted analysis to improve resilience and performance. You will collaborate with Infoblox Support, Engineering, and customer teams, delivering