Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Bare Metal / Lab Operations)

Elexum

  • Sunnyvale/ Cupertino, CA
  • 7 days ago

    Highlights

    Deploy & Maintain Bare Metal and Virtual Hosts: Provision, configure, and manage 100% physical hardware (servers, storage, switches) and virtual servers across global labs / data centers (on-prem and hybrid cloud) for high-availability workloads. Preferred Qualifications and Experience R&D Hardware Agility: Experience deploying bare metal infrastructure for AI/ML workloads (e.g., optimizing storage for GPU clusters, low-latency data pipelines), isolated R&D environments, malicious environments (malware, honeypots, etc), or temporary environments for forensic research.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSunnyvale/ Cupertino, CA

    Description

    AIP Contractor JD
    Key Responsibilities
    • Provide M-F 9-5 physical support in the Lab.
    • Act as on premise lab manager interacting with lab support partners
    • Responsible for hardware security audits
    • Deploy & Maintain Bare Metal and Virtual Hosts: Provision, configure, and manage 100% physical hardware (servers, storage, switches) and virtual servers across global labs / data centers (on-prem and hybrid cloud) for high-availability workloads
    • Automate Infrastructure Operations: Reduce manual effort through infrastructure-as-code (Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines for both bare metal and virtual machine provisioning, patching, and global inventory management.
    • Diagnose Critical Infrastructure Incidents: Resolve physical hardware failures (server crashes, storage corruption) andglobal infrastructure outages (e.g., data center downtime) within SLAs; lead post-mortems for R&D teams.
    • Optimize Global Infrastructure Performance: Tune bare metal and cloud workloads (e.g., Kubernetes, HPC) for low-latency operations using monitoring (Datadog or Prometheus) and storage performance analysis (e.g., I/O latency, throughput).
    • Own Enterprise Infrastructure: Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for global and remote R&D teams, including replication, disaster recovery, and performance tuning across time zones.


    Required Qualifications and Experience
    • 5+ years of enterprise systems infrastructure experience managing bare metal and virtual servers (physical hardware deployment, OS installation, patching) in global environments (on-prem, cloud hybrid)
    • Proven ability to automate bare metal and virtual operations using IaC (Ansible) and scripting (Python, Shell) for server provisioning, inventory tracking, and global infrastructure scaling
    • Investigate and Diagnose Physical infrastructure incidents: Server hardware failures, storage corruption, network connectivity loss
    • Operational monitoring proficiency: Used tools like Datadog or Prometheus to track server/storage health, uptime, and performance metrics globally
    • Document & Scale Knowledge: Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational guides for consistency.

    Preferred Qualifications and Experience
    • R&D Hardware Agility: Experience deploying bare metal infrastructure for AI/ML workloads (e.g., optimizing storage for GPU clusters, low-latency data pipelines), isolated R&D environments, malicious environments (malware, honeypots, etc), or temporary environments for forensic research
    • Global Hardware Operations: Proven success in documenting processes for non-English speaking teams across the world (e.g., APAC/NA)
    • Strong Python, including building and maintaining web services (Django or similar) backed by PostgreSQL.
    • Hands-on experience with virtualization and virtual switching.
    • Ethernet switching fundamentals, including VLANs, trunking and spanning tree.

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