Platform (Infrastructure) Engineer

Job Description Job Description Sell Rate: 70/hr
Remote / WFO / Hybrid:Remote. Ideally, Central/Mountain/Pacific TZ hours availability 8am onwards.
Hire Type (FTE/Contract): Contract
Project Duration: 12 Months
Expected Start Date: ASAP
Platform (Infrastructure) Engineer
We are seeking a mid-level Infrastructure Engineer (5 years of relevant experience) to support the build-out of Flexential's enterprise Observability platform. This is a hands-on technical role working alongside Platform Engineering to provision, configure, and maintain the infrastructure underpinning a modern LGTM-based observability stack across 40 data center facilities.
Responsibilities
Provision and manage virtual infrastructure within VMware VCF/vSphere/vCenter environments supporting the Observability platform

• Build and maintain Terraform modules for infrastructure provisioning including VMs, storage, and networking
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for OS configuration, service deployment, and environment hardening
• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters (RKE2 or equivalent) hosting the LGTM stack workloads
• Manage Helm chart deployments for Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus Operator
• Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and toolchain supporting end-to-end GitOps workflows
• Configure and maintain network connectivity for Observability project to all infrastructure and application components including virtualization, LAN, and WAN
• Collaborate with the Platform Engineering team to establish standards for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), environment promotion, and operational runbooks

Required Skills

• Python and YAML - 3 years of automation scripting and configuration authoring
• Terraform - 3 years writing and maintaining infrastructure modules; experience with vSphere or cloud providers preferred
• Ansible - 2 years of playbook development; AWX/automation controller experience preferred
• Kubernetes and Helm - 3 years of cluster administration and workload deployment, including day-2 operations
• GitLab - 2 years of CI/CD pipeline development and GitOps workflow management
• VMware VCF, vSphere, and vCenter - 2 years of hands-on experience required; strong working knowledge of VM lifecycle, resource pools, and storage policies
• Linux - 3 years of admin-level proficiency required; systemd, networking, storage, and security hardening
• Networking - 2 years working with LAN/WAN, DNS, load balancing, and network virtualization in an enterprise environment

Preferred Skills

• Any hands-on exposure to LGTM stack technologies (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) or OpenTelemetry
• Familiarity with AIOps concepts and observability platform operations nincluding ITSM Major incident management workflows and tools
• Experience with secrets management tools such as CyberArk, Conjur, or HashiCorp Vault
• Experience with Postgres or other RDBMS