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Our team is composed of highly skilled professionals who are passionate about technology and innovation. We provide a dynamic and collaborative work environment where you can grow your career and make a significant impact.\n We are seeking a seasoned Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 10+ years of experience to own and modernize the hybrid and on-premises infrastructure for a leading U.S. livestock equipment and manufacturing company. In this role, you will act as the principal infrastructure lead: driving data center operations, network engineering, security, and storage architecture.\nBecause physical hardware resides at the client’s manufacturing facilities, you will orchestrate on-site execution remotely by specifying hardware configurations, writing step-by-step runbooks, and directing local IT staff and vendors. Additionally, you will partner with business leadership to advise on core IT decisions and pilot forward-looking initiatives, including on-premises Kubernetes deployment and self-hosted AI models.\nOn-Call: Periodic on-call availability for major outage resolution and critical maintenance windows.\n\nLanguage: Strong written and spoken English proficiency for asynchronous and real-time collaboration.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Systems, Virtualization & Data Center Ownership\nVirtualization: Architect, maintain, and tune a virtualized data center comprising dozens of physical and virtual servers across Hyper-V (Windows Server Datacenter) and KVM (Linux).\n\nDirectory Services & Storage: Administer Active Directory, Group Policy (GPO), company-wide file shares and permissions. Oversee enterprise storage arrays (Pure Storage SAN/NAS).\n\nBackup & DR: Own business continuity and disaster recovery strategies (using Bareos, Azure Backup, or similar), including automated backup monitoring, routine restore testing and detailed DR runbooks.\n\nAutomation & Maintenance: Streamline server, network, and access management using Ansible and Bash scripts. Maintain core internal tooling (GitLab EE, Passbolt). Patch and lifecycle-manage legacy systems with zero to minimal production downtime.\n\nNetwork Infrastructure & Cybersecurity\nNetwork Operations: Design, optimize, and manage LAN, subnets, VLANs, routing, and secure VPNs across manufacturing plant and office locations.\n\nTraffic & Security Analysis: Monitor and analyze network traffic (Wireshark, NetFlow) across plant subnets to detect anomalies and optimize throughput.\n\nVulnerability Management: Perform vulnerability scans, fix security gaps, enforce firewall policies and collaborate directly with the client's in-house cybersecurity specialist.\n\nRemote Physical Operations & Vendor Direction\nHardware & Cabling Specifications: Define hardware configurations (servers, workstations, network switches, IP camera systems) and draft precise step-by-step setup guides for on-site staff.\n\nStructured Cabling & Surveillance: Design Ethernet/fiber cabling alterations, evaluate vendor proposals and verify completed installations. Plan and configure IP surveillance systems (NVR/VMS) and their dedicated subnets.\n\nRemote Hands Orchestration: Utilize out-of-band management tools (iDRAC, iLO, IPMI) to troubleshoot,recover and provision bare-metal systems remotely.\n\nStrategic Advising & Emerging Tech Pilots\nInfrastructure Consulting: Evaluate and advise executive leadership on architecture decisions, such as on-premises vs. cloud models for document management.\n\nPlatform Innovation: Pilot next-generation infrastructure platforms, including on-premises Kubernetes clusters and locally hosted AI/LLM models (e.g., for automated code generation).\n\nDocumentation & Asset Management: Maintain thorough technical documentation, including network topologies, system architecture diagrams, asset inventories and credential/access management records.\n\n Experience: 10+ years in systems, network engineering and infrastructure administration within complex on-premises or hybrid environment setups.\n\nRemote Leadership: Proven track record of managing physical data centers and network infrastructure remotely,including directing on-site remote hands and third-party vendors.\n\nVirtualization: Solid hands-on expertise with Hyper-V and KVM (or Red Hat Virtualization / oVirt).\n\nOS & Directory Services: Senior-level administration of Windows Server (Active Directory, Group Policy, file permissions) and enterprise Linux distributions.\n\nNetworking & Security: Deep knowledge of network design (VLANs, subnets, routing, VPNs), firewall policies and traffic/vulnerability analysis.\n\nStorage & DR: Proficiency with enterprise SAN/NAS hardware (Pure Storage or similar) and backup/DR tooling (Bareos/Bacula, Azure Backup, or Commvault).\n\nAutomation: Practical experience automating system configuration and deployment with Ansible and shell scripts.\n\nHardware & Out-of-Band Management: Strong background using iDRAC, iLO, or IPMI for out-of-band recovery, with sufficient hardware knowledge to specify physical 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