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Job Title: Infrastructure Development Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Infrastructure Development Engineer with our client located in Dallas, TX.
Job Description:
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Job Title: Infrastructure Development Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Infrastructure Development Engineer with our client located in Dallas, TX.
Job Description:
- 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.
- You will work across hardware, networking, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure is discoverable, automated, reliable, and ready for self-service consumption.
- Build automation and tools in Python.
- Develop Python-based tools and services for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and self-service workflows.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks (imaging, deployments, health checks, remediation) and reduce manual intervention.
- Integrate with internal and external APIs to orchestrate infrastructure workflows (compute, storage, network, cloud).
- Developers with experience in other programming languages, such as C or Java, will also be considered..
- Software Defined Network Services: IPAM, DDI & CMDB.
- Own and operate the corporate IP Address Management (IPAM) and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) platforms.
- Design scalable IP allocation, DNS, and DHCP strategies across multiple datacenters and environments.
- Integrate IPAM/DDI systems with provisioning, bootstrapping, and CMDB workflows.
- Act as a steward of the CMDB, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and automation-driven updates.
- Define and enforce standards for asset discovery, lifecycle state, and dependency mapping.
- Monitoring, observability, and reliability
- Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Nagios or similar)
- Define and track key metrics (availability, latency, capacity, error rates), and drive improvements based on data
- Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes and runbooks.
- 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 at enterprise scale.
- Experience operating or integrating CMDB systems as a source of truth.
- Solid knowledge of datacenter networking concepts, including Fibre Channel. Proficiency with Linux systems and troubleshooting at hardware and OS layers.
- Experience building infrastructure automation and onboarding pipelines.
- Familiarity with API-driven integrations and workflow orchestration.
- Ability to reason about infrastructure as a platform, not just individual systems.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with hardware, network, storage, and SRE teams.
- Strong operational mindset with a focus on reliability, correctness, and supportability.
- Ability to drive ambiguous problems to clear, automated solutions.
- Experience with large-scale internal platforms or “infrastructure as a product”.
- Background in SRE or reliability engineering.
- Exposure to self-service infrastructure platforms and developer enablement.
- Experience operating in multi-datacenter or hybrid environments.
- Server Bootstrapping & Provisioning automation
- Familiar with datacenter bootstrapping services, including PXE, imaging, and initial OS/hypervisor provisioning.
- Ensure seamless handoff from hardware arrival to production-ready infrastructure.
- Improve time-to-serve metrics for new racks, clusters, and testbeds.
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate: $65-$72 an hour.
- Location: Dallas, TX.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Salary : $65 - $72