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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Senior Infrastructure Engineer designs, automates, and maintains multi-region datacenter infrastructure using IaC, hypervisors, and storage systems, blending physical hardware work with DevOps practices.

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at

Job summary

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the enterprise infrastructure that runs across our multi-region datacenter footprint. In this role, you will own our infrastructure-as-code automation, virtualization platforms, and storage systems, balancing hands-on physical infrastructure with modern DevOps practices. Most of your work is remote, with scheduled in-office days for collaboration and hardware integration testing.

What you will do

Key Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure Automation: Design and maintain IaC solutions using Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack for configuration management and deployment standardization across 5+ datacenters.
  • Hypervisor Management: Administer vCenter environments and Nutanix AHV clusters; optimize resource allocation, performance tuning, and high-availability configurations.
  • Storage Engineering: Manage the Nutanix storage fabric, monitoring, and capacity planning; optimize IOPS, latency, and replication strategies.
  • Datacenter Operations: Lead hardware procurement, specification, and installation during refresh cycles; maintain asset inventory and power/cooling optimization.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Build Splunk dashboards, field extractors, and alerting rules for infrastructure metrics; troubleshoot performance issues through log analysis.
  • CI/CD Integration: Partner with development teams on GitHub-based infrastructure repositories; implement automated testing and rollback procedures for infrastructure changes.
  • Compliance & Security: Implement hardening standards and vulnerability remediation (CVE patching through patching pipelines), and uphold security best practices across all systems.
  • On-Call Rotation: Share in the team on-call rotation, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

What you will have

Required Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure engineering (hypervisors, storage, networking).
  • 3+ years of IaC with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Deep expertise in VMware vSphere (vCenter administration, ESXi tuning) and Nutanix AHV (deployment, cluster management).
  • NetApp storage administration (data protection, replication, capacity management).
  • Splunk proficiency: dashboard development, field extraction, SPL optimization, and alerting.
  • GitHub workflow: branching strategies, pull requests, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
  • Linux/Windows system administration and troubleshooting.
  • Physical infrastructure: comfortable with hardware installation, cabling, and IPMI/iLO management.
  • Able to travel to our datacenters for deployments, maintenance, and hardware refresh cycles — usually quarterly, and sometimes on shorter notice as needs come up.

Nice to have

Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands-on Python scripting for infrastructure automation (config.json-driven patterns).
  • Experience with vulnerability remediation and patching workflows (CVE tracking, Tanium).
  • Kubernetes or container orchestration knowledge.
  • Enterprise SAN/NAS background.
  • Familiarity with cloud migration patterns (VMware-to-Nutanix cold migrations).
  • Advanced Splunk certifications (Admin, Advanced Admin).
  • VMware certifications (VCP, VCAP).
  • Cloud experience (AWS, Azure).

Work Environment

  • 2 days/week on-site in our Lehi office for collaborative planning, hardware testing, and team meetings
  • 3 days/week remote for coding, monitoring, documentation, and async collaboration
  • Travel to our datacenters (2-5 days per trip) for hardware installations and deployments — typically quarterly, with occasional as-needed visits

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement savings programs with company matching (401(k) or RRSP).
  • Generous paid time off, including holidays, and vacation.
  • Paid parental leave and family support benefits.
  • Life and disability coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings options (where applicable).
  • Health and wellness support, including gym reimbursement and wellness programs.
  • Employee Assistance Program with 24/7confidential support for employees and families.
  • Education assistance and professional development opportunities.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning and continuous learning resources.
  • Employee referral bonus program and additional company perks and discounts.
  • Internal rewards and recognition platform (Motivosity) to celebrate and acknowledge project wins, milestone achievements, and the outstanding contributions of our colleagues.
  • Business travel insurance and global employee support programs.

To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.

DigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, DigiCert prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran’s status, status as a qualified person with a disability, or genetic information. Individuals from historically underrepresented groups, such as minorities, women, qualified person with disabilities, and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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What this application asks

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