Datacenter Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: Datacenter Infrastructure Engineer Duration: 6 Months (Possibility of Extension) Location Preference: Dallas, TX area (Preferred) Overview We are looking for an Infrastructure Development Engineer to design, operate, and scale foundational datacenter services that power bare-metal, virtualization, and cloud-adjacent platforms. This role owns the automation to boot and manage critical services such as corporate IPAM/DDI, CMDB, and datacenter bootstrapping systems. The engineer will work across hardware, networking, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure is discoverable, automated, reliable, and ready for self-service consumption. Key Responsibilities Automation & Development • Build automation and tools using Python • Develop Python-based tools and services for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and self-service workflows • Automate operational tasks such as imaging, deployments, health checks, and remediation • Integrate internal and external APIs to orchestrate infrastructure workflows across compute, storage, network, and cloud • Developers with experience in C++ or Java will also be considered Software Defined Network Services (IPAM, DDI & CMDB) • Own and operate corporate IP Address Management (IPAM) and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) platforms • Design scalable IP allocation, DNS, and DHCP strategies across datacenters • Integrate IPAM/DDI systems with provisioning, bootstrapping, and CMDB workflows • Act as a steward of the CMDB ensuring accuracy and automation-driven updates • Define standards for asset discovery, lifecycle state, and dependency mapping Monitoring, Observability & Reliability • Implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Nagios • Track key metrics such as availability, latency, capacity, and error rates • Participate in incident response and root cause analysis • Implement long-term fixes and operational runbooks Required Skills & Experience Core Technical Skills • Experience with bare-metal provisioning and hypervisor deployment • Hands-on experience with OpenStack, VMware, KubeVirt, or similar virtualization platforms • Deep understanding of IPAM, DNS, and DHCP • Experience with CMDB systems • Knowledge of datacenter networking concepts including Fibre Channel • Proficiency with Linux systems and troubleshooting Automation & Systems Thinking • Experience building infrastructure automation and onboarding pipelines • Familiarity with API-driven integrations and workflow orchestration • Ability to understand infrastructure as a platform Collaboration & Ownership • Experience working with hardware, network, storage, and SRE teams • Strong operational mindset focused on reliability and supportability • Ability to solve complex problems with automated solutions Nice to Have • Experience with large-scale internal platforms or infrastructure as a product • Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Experience with self-service infrastructure platforms • Experience in multi-datacenter or hybrid environments Server Bootstrapping & Provisioning Automation • Experience with datacenter bootstrapping services including PXE, imaging, and OS/hypervisor provisioning • Ensure seamless transition from hardware arrival to production-ready infrastructure • Improve time-to-serve metrics for new racks, clusters, and testbeds