Job Summary
As a Senior Staff Engineer – Infrastructure Engineering & DevOps you will play a key technical leadership role in designing, building, and evolving our hybrid infrastructure and developer platforms. You’ll work hands‑on across cloud automation, high‑performance bare‑metal systems, and DevOps tooling to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure that accelerates software delivery and supports the organization’s AI and data‑intensive workloads. This highly cross‑functional role collaborates closely with Development, DevOps, and QA teams to solve infrastructure or release challenges, support delivery cycles, and continuously improve platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
- Contribute to the design and evolution of hybrid infrastructure systems (cloud + bare metal)
- Build and enhance internal tools and automation to improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Implement and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code practices, platform APIs, and shared tooling
- Support system designs that enable multi‑tenant workloads, observability, and auditability
Engineering Collaboration & Delivery Support
- Partner with Dev, DevOps, and QA teams to resolve infrastructure or deployment blockers during release cycles
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to DevOps and platform engineers
- Participate in architectural reviews, release readiness checkpoints, and root‑cause analyses
Software Build & Release Pipelines
- Design, implement, and operate build and release pipelines for hybrid environments, including GPU‑based bare‑metal systems
- Improve test orchestration, staging workflows, and artifact delivery pipelines
- Integrate automation with infrastructure‑level controls for access, audit, and security compliance
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering roles
- Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go)
- Hands‑on experience with hybrid infrastructure (cloud + bare metal)
- Deep knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes)
- Proven cross‑functional collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with GPU‑accelerated compute or HPC‑style infrastructure
- Familiarity with platform engineering or developer experience optimization
- Experience with high‑velocity release cycles and incident response
This position requires participation in an on‑call rotation to provide after‑hours support as needed.
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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