Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Brown University’s Office of Information Technology is hiring a Systems Infrastructure Engineer to maintain the stability, security, and delivery of its physical and virtual server infrastructure. The role manages hypervisor and hardware environments, supports Windows and Linux systems, and maintains disaster recovery and operational documentation.

Responsibilities:

• The Systems Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the stability, security, and end-to-end delivery of the University’s physical and virtual server infrastructure
• This role manages the entire hypervisor layer (Hyper-V and VMware) and physical hardware providing a reliable, secure, and available environment
• The Engineer provides technical assistance and support across both Windows and Linux environments, ensuring systems software is provisioned, installed, and configured securely
• This role eliminates service bottlenecks through a pooled capability model and maintains critical disaster recovery and documentation standards, ensuring all operational processes are documented and repeatable
• This role includes participation in a 24-hour on-call rotation for incident management and group coverage during normal business hours

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience demonstrating the required knowledge, skills, and abilities
• 7+ years maintaining enterprise and/or research systems and platforms, including:
• Hands-on management of Hyper-V and VMware, including hardware management, cluster administration, upgrades, and incident management
• Operational proficiency in both Windows Server (Active Directory, Group Policy) and Linux/Unix server environments
• Scripting experience in PowerShell and Bash to automate operational and administrative tasks
• Proficiency in enterprise configuration management using SCCM, Puppet, Ansible, or OpenVox, and proven expertise in version control workflows using Git to ensure infrastructure is managed as code
• Demonstrated expertise in managing hybrid cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and hands-on experience engineering Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform
• Proven ability to implement platform observability through SIEM/log correlation tools (e.g., Sumo Logic) and expert knowledge of designing resilient disaster recovery frameworks to ensure institutional service continuity
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; excellent communication and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams
• Experience deploying, maintaining, and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes
• Windows & Linux systems expertise
• Physical hardware lifecycle management
• Project and operations management
• Documentation discipline and knowledge sharing
• Support for pooled capability models
• Containerized application deployment using Kubernetes
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
• RHEL/Ubuntu preferred