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Staff Software Engineer, Server Infrastructure & Automation
(Remote with Quarterly Travel to Fort Worth TX or Topeka KS)
Optomi, in partnership with a leading organization, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Server Infrastructure & Automation to help modernize and automate enterprise data center infrastructure. This role will focus heavily on infrastructure automation and software engineering, with approximately 80% of the work centered around automation and 10–20% focused on physical infrastructure. The ideal candidate will understand server infrastructure at a deep technical level while using Python, Ansible, and software engineering practices to automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, ticketing, and lifecycle management.
What the Right Candidate Will Enjoy:
- Building automation for enterprise server infrastructure!
- Modernizing legacy infrastructure and operational processes!
- Developing self-monitoring and self-healing infrastructure capabilities!
- Automating bare-metal server and operating system environments!
- Working across Windows and Linux infrastructure!
- Building playbooks and infrastructure automation solutions!
- Helping transition a traditionally contractor-heavy organization toward modern, automated infrastructure operations!
Experience of the Right Candidate:
- Strong infrastructure software engineering background
- Experience building software and automation within an infrastructure domain
- Deep understanding of enterprise server infrastructure and operating systems
- Strong Python and/or Ansible experience
- Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, or remediation
- Experience working with legacy infrastructure and modernizing existing environments
- Understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Experience with bare-metal infrastructure and data center environments
- Strong troubleshooting and systems engineering skills
Responsibilities:
- Develop automation solutions for enterprise server infrastructure and data center operations
- Automate server provisioning, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and lifecycle activities
- Build and maintain Python and Ansible playbooks and automation frameworks
- Develop self-monitoring and automated remediation capabilities
- Automate incident detection and ticket creation through infrastructure monitoring
- Support bare-metal operating system deployments and lifecycle management
- Analyze legacy infrastructure and identify opportunities for automation and modernization
- Develop infrastructure standards, procedures, and automation playbooks
- Troubleshoot server, operating system, and infrastructure issues
- Collaborate with data center, network, security, and infrastructure teams
- Commit automation and infrastructure playbooks into established repositories and operational frameworks
- Help establish scalable, repeatable infrastructure management processes
- Support the transition toward a hybrid cloud infrastructure strategy
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Python, Ansible, Go, or Java
- Experience with Linux infrastructure
- Windows Server administration experience
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Git and CI/CD experience
- Experience with server hardware, firmware, drivers, and out-of-band management
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and ITSM platforms
- Experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Experience developing self-healing or autonomous infrastructure
Salary : $70 - $100