Title:Senior Infrastructure Engineer Location: Hybrid Toronto, ON (2 days currently, could increase to 4 days) Duration: 12 months
Extension possible: potential Possible Conversion: potential
Summary Of The Role:
We’re hiring a senior infrastructure engineer to own bare metal hardware and automation in a large regulated financial services environment. The role covers Cisco UCS (M7/M8, Intersight-managed), Dell, and HP server platforms: provisioning, performance tuning, and patching requirements, across both standalone and clustered Windows and Red Hat systems. Bare metal automation for provisioning and day-2 operations is currently being developed and will roll out initially on the UCS platform, with Dell and HP coverage to follow. This role will take ownership of that automation going forward, so strong Ansible skills are required.
Must have skills and experience:
Own architecture, configuration, and lifecycle management for Cisco UCS M7/M8 (Intersight), Dell, and HP server hardware
Take ownership of bare metal automation for UCS as it’s developed and rolled out; build out Ansible playbooks and extend coverage to Dell and HP over time
Own design and build of UCS service profiles, server pools, and fabric interconnect configuration (VLANs/VSANs), including standalone and clustered host provisioning
Serve as L3 escalation point for UCS platform issues affecting Windows and RHEL systems, standalone and clustered
Define patching requirements for fabric interconnects and UCS servers; coordinate with the team that executes patching
Troubleshoot issues across automated and manual provisioning workflows
Coordinate with the SAN team on host-side storage connectivity configuration within UCS service profiles for bare metal builds
Work with Windows, Linux, and automation engineering teams to keep hardware-specific playbooks aligned with broader automation standards
Nice to have:
FI experience
Other hardware platforms
Years of Overall Experience: 5 years experience in a similar role. Degree/Level of Education: Bachelors Degree
Preferred/Ideal Candidate Background:
Ansible experience
Windows skills
UCS experience
Target interview: 3 rounds max, 1st will be virtual, 2nd in person.
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