Senior Network/Infrastructure Engineer
Full-Time
$100k - $130k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's
Charlotte, NC, USA
In Person100% on-site in Charlotte, North Carolina.
About the job
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in a senior network or infrastructure engineering role supporting enterprise environments spanning hybrid datacenter and cloud.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, VMware vSphere/ESX/ESXi, and Microsoft Azure.
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise LAN, WAN, and Wi-Fi networks, including routing, switching, VPNs, Quality of Service, packet capture, and traffic analysis.
- Firewall administration experience with SonicWall, Cisco ASA, or Palo Alto, including policy management, VPNs, logging, and triage.
- Experience with virtualization operations and performance tuning across compute, storage, and networking.
- Windows Server administration experience, including legacy environments, Active Directory, Group Policy, and Exchange in enterprise contexts.
- Working knowledge of supporting SQL Server environments.
- Strong operational practices involving change management, incident response, documentation, and clear communication.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day VMware environment operations, including lifecycle management, capacity, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, backup and disaster recovery coordination, and incident response.
- Plan and execute migration from VMware to Nutanix or Nutanix-based platforms while minimizing downtime and risk.
- Operate and optimize storage and compute platforms such as Cisco UCS, NetApp FAS/AFF, and FlexPod, including performance troubleshooting and resilience planning.
- Manage and optimize Microsoft Azure workloads, including networking, compute, storage, security controls, cost optimization, and operational monitoring.
- Operate Kubernetes environments, including cluster upgrades, reliability, networking, ingress, policy, and workload troubleshooting.
- Build, deploy, and support Docker containerized applications and supporting infrastructure, including registries, image hygiene, runtime security, and scaling.
- Implement and maintain L4/L7 load-balancing solutions, including TLS configuration and operational monitoring.
- Design, implement, and support enterprise data, voice, and video networks across LAN, WAN, and Wi-Fi.
- Configure and support routing, switching, and core network services including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, Quality of Service, DHCP, and DNS.
- Administer and harden firewalls and VPNs using SonicWall, Cisco ASA, and Palo Alto, and support secure remote access patterns.
- Maintain secure internal and external data-transfer mechanisms such as SFTP and managed file transfer, including certificates, keys, access controls, and auditing.
- Support vulnerability remediation, security hardening, and practical control implementation aligned with customer and security expectations, including PCI and SOC-related controls where applicable.
- Own SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management across infrastructure components.
- Build repeatable automated operations using infrastructure as code and configuration management to reduce manual work and increase reliability.
- Improve observability and troubleshooting through monitoring, alerting, packet capture, and traffic analysis, and drive root-cause prevention.
- Participate in on-call and after-hours support rotations for high-priority incidents and maintenance windows.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors or clients to plan changes, execute upgrades, resolve incidents, and document outcomes.
- Create and maintain technical documentation including runbooks, diagrams, and standards.
Desired Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in a related field and significant datacenter operations experience.
- Certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, VCP, Nutanix NCP, Azure AZ-104 or AZ-305, Security+, or equivalent experience.
- Production experience with Cisco UCS, NetApp FAS/AFF, and FlexPod architectures.
- Familiarity with IIS and Tomcat administration and email security tooling such as SpamTitan.
- Experience with Jira, Kace, SolarWinds, PRTG, Cerberus SFTP, Zerto, Trend Micro, WSUS, and related monitoring, endpoint, and security platforms.
About the company
Parallel Partners and Next Step Systems recruit information technology professionals for full-time permanent roles in the financial services and trading industries. They match IT talent with roles at hedge funds, trading firms, banks, brokerages, and data providers across the U.S., using nationwide searches from their Chicago area offices. The firms differentiate themselves through a focused niche in financial technology recruiting, deep client and candidate networks, and a high rate of repeat business after long-standing partnerships (and after the 2014 acquisition that expanded resources). Their goal is to place top IT professionals into permanent positions at leading financial technology firms and strengthen leadership in IT recruiting.
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Headquarters
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Founded
2014
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- PP only earns through equity or revenue-share, aligning incentives with operator outcomes.
- PP replaces processes, not overlays software, with agentic-first transformations across EU and US.
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