What are the responsibilities and job description for the Infrastructure Engineer (Network, Systems, Virtualization, Storage) (Green Bay, WI) position at Nsight?
Job Summary:
The Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and operating enterprise data center and network infrastructure. This role spans compute, storage, virtualization, and network platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation. The engineer will collaborate with transport, application, and security teams to deliver resilient infrastructure platforms.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Network Design and Implementation
Joining Nsight:
Our family of companies provides complete telecommunications services, including wireless and fiber-based services to residential and business customers, along with tower erection and maintenance services in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Our commitment to customer service, local philanthropic efforts and green initiatives makes us an employer of choice in the state of Wisconsin. We like to hire people looking to grow with an organization and those who are excited about the ever-changing telecommunications industry.
Nsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. This is a drug-free workplace.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to the Recruiting Manager at recruiting@nsight.com.
The Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and operating enterprise data center and network infrastructure. This role spans compute, storage, virtualization, and network platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and automation. The engineer will collaborate with transport, application, and security teams to deliver resilient infrastructure platforms.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Network Design and Implementation
- Plan, design, and implement networking infrastructure including Cisco Nexus and Catalyst, Dell, and Palo Alto Firewalls.
- Configure and manage routing and switching platforms (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, VLANs, EVPN, VXLAN, etc.).
- Design and configure data center network automation tooling to manage network fabrics at scale.
- Implement network segmentation practices by using VLANs, policies, and inspection.
- Identify and troubleshoot complex networking issues while using monitoring and observability tools like Zabbix, Grafana, and others.
- Drive hardware and software lifecycle management of network infrastructure.
- Configure and manage virtualization platforms across multiple data centers.
- Develop efficient operational workflows by creating VM templates, images, and other means of rapid host and VM provisioning.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain physical server platforms.
- Perform regular patching of BIOS, firmware, and lights out management.
- Deploy and manage storage systems (SAN, NAS, object storage, Ceph, ZFS, RAID).
- Manage storage resiliency through backup and replication platforms.
- Design storage architectures for performance, resilience, and scalability.
- Monitor storage capacity and performance while proactively addressing issues.
- Rack/Stack, cabling, and power of on-premises hardware.
- Automate provisioning and configuration using Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
- Develop tooling using modern automation frameworks that improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency.
- Keep affected teams informed of planned and unplanned changes, significant issues, delays, and environmental impacts.
- Ensure proper documentation of software and systems is maintained.
- Develop projects plans and keep projects on track to meet deadlines.
- Partner with the applications and core team to achieve business objectives.
- Ensures leadership is informed of problems that are customer impacting.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- 3 years of experience in infrastructure engineering (network, systems, or data center operations).
- Strong knowledge of routing, switching, and firewall technologies.
- Hands-on experience with data center networking (fiber, DAC, etc.).
- Experience with virtualization platforms and enterprise storage systems.
- Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
- Experience with Linux and/or enterprise server operating systems.
- Advanced networking experience (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, MPLS, large-scale IP fabrics).
- Experience with data center architectures (leaf-spine, Clos, SDN).
- Vendor certifications (CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE, VMware, Red Hat, NetApp, etc.).
- Storage expertise (NetApp, Dell/EMC, Pure, SAN/NVMe fabrics, Ceph, ZFS).
- Kubernetes, container platforms, or cloud infrastructure experience.
- Experience with automation frameworks and IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience in regulated or high-availability environments (telecom, finance, healthcare).
Joining Nsight:
Our family of companies provides complete telecommunications services, including wireless and fiber-based services to residential and business customers, along with tower erection and maintenance services in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Our commitment to customer service, local philanthropic efforts and green initiatives makes us an employer of choice in the state of Wisconsin. We like to hire people looking to grow with an organization and those who are excited about the ever-changing telecommunications industry.
Nsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. This is a drug-free workplace.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to the Recruiting Manager at recruiting@nsight.com.