Staff DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer

NMI

full-time

Posted on: 9/24/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $155,000 - $165,000 per year

Lead

AnsibleCloudGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMySQLPrometheusPuppetPythonVMware

About the role

Lead maintenance and operations for production and development environments, including patching, deployments, and server management
Ensure high reliability and performance of services, proactively resolving incidents before customer impact
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and drive post-incident reviews and blameless post-mortems
Architect and implement complex solutions spanning OS, virtualization, network, storage, and cloud layers
Coordinate on-site deployments in colocation facilities (server/storage installation, decommissioning, and troubleshooting)
Lead automation initiatives for infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks
Design and maintain tooling for observability using OSS and commercial platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver infrastructure that meets compliance, performance, and scale requirements
Continuously improve SRE/DevOps practices, driving documentation quality, operational maturity, and agility

8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
Proven experience in hybrid infrastructure with strong colocation and on-prem expertise (not exclusively public cloud)
Proficiency in configuration-as-code tooling (Ansible, Puppet) and scripting (Python, Bash, Go)
Deeply comfortable in shell environments (Bash, ZSH)
Expert-level Linux systems knowledge (RHEL-based distributions preferred)
Experience with Proxmox, KVM, or VMWare in high-availability environments
Advanced troubleshooting of SANs, load balancers, and virtualization platforms
Proactive infrastructure monitoring using commercial or OSS alerting systems
Experience driving observability-first infrastructure and designing metrics and alerting
Experience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations and post-incident reviews
Ability to lead technical strategy while maintaining hands-on contributions
Preferred: Experience with F5 BigIP LTMs, NetApp SANs, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
Preferred: Working knowledge of MySQL and Kubernetes (or motivation to learn it)
Preferred: Prior exposure to SaaS-based WAF/DDoS platforms (CloudFlare, Akamai, Silverline)
Preferred: Experience in agile teams (Scrum, Kanban) and hands-on GitLab experience is a plus
Must have legal right to be employed in the United States (per Equal Opportunity statement)