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Job Description

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 10+ years of experience to own and modernize the hybrid and on-premises infrastructure for a leading U.S. livestock equipment and manufacturing company. In this role, you will act as the principal infrastructure lead: driving data center operations, network engineering, security, and storage architecture.

Because physical hardware resides at the client’s manufacturing facilities, you will orchestrate on-site execution remotely by specifying hardware configurations, writing step-by-step runbooks, and directing local IT staff and vendors. Additionally, you will partner with business leadership to advise on core IT decisions and pilot forward-looking initiatives, including on-premises Kubernetes deployment and self-hosted AI models.

- On-Call: Periodic on-call availability for major outage resolution and critical maintenance windows.
- Language: Strong written and spoken English proficiency for asynchronous and real-time collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

- Systems, Virtualization & Data Center Ownership
- Virtualization: Architect, maintain, and tune a virtualized data center comprising dozens of physical and virtual servers across Hyper-V (Windows Server Datacenter) and KVM (Linux).
- Directory Services & Storage:



Administer Active Directory, Group Policy (GPO), company-wide file shares and permissions. Oversee enterprise storage arrays (Pure Storage SAN/NAS).
- Backup & DR: Own business continuity and disaster recovery strategies (using Bareos, Azure Backup, or similar), including automated backup monitoring, routine restore testing and detailed DR runbooks.
- Automation & Maintenance: Streamline server, network, and access management using Ansible and Bash scripts. Maintain core internal tooling (GitLab EE, Passbolt). Patch and lifecycle-manage legacy systems with zero to minimal production downtime.

Network Infrastructure & Cybersecurity

- Network Operations: Design, optimize, and manage LAN, subnets, VLANs, routing, and secure VPNs across manufacturing plant and office locations.
- Traffic & Security Analysis: Monitor and analyze network traffic (Wireshark, NetFlow) across plant subnets to detect anomalies and optimize throughput.
- Vulnerability Management: Perform vulnerability scans, fix security gaps, enforce firewall policies and collaborate directly with the client's in-house cybersecurity specialist.

Remote Physical Operations & Vendor Direction

- Hardware & Cabling Specifications: Define hardware configurations (servers, workstations,



network switches, IP camera systems) and draft precise step-by-step setup guides for on-site staff.
- Structured Cabling & Surveillance: Design Ethernet/fiber cabling alterations, evaluate vendor proposals and verify completed installations. Plan and configure IP surveillance systems (NVR/VMS) and their dedicated subnets.
- Remote Hands Orchestration: Utilize out-of-band management tools (iDRAC, iLO, IPMI) to troubleshoot,recover and provision bare-metal systems remotely.

Strategic Advising & Emerging Tech Pilots

- Infrastructure Consulting: Evaluate and advise executive leadership on architecture decisions, such as on-premises vs. cloud models for document management.
- Platform Innovation: Pilot next-generation infrastructure platforms, including on-premises Kubernetes clusters and locally hosted AI/LLM models (e.g., for automated code generation).
- Documentation & Asset Management: Maintain thorough technical documentation, including network topologies, system architecture diagrams, asset inventories and credential/access management records.

Qualifications

- Experience: 10+ years in systems, network engineering and infrastructure administration within complex on-premises or hybrid environment setups.
- Remote Leadership: Proven track record of managing physical data centers and network infrastructure remotely,including directing on-site remote hands and third-party vendors.
- Virtualization: Solid hands-on expertise with Hyper-V and KVM (or Red Hat Virtualization / oVirt).
- OS & Directory Services: Senior-level

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📌 Senior Infrastructure Engineer (México)
🏢 KMS Technology
📍 México