[Hiring] Systems Infrastructure Engineer @Brown University

Role Description

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.

• Provides technical assistance and support across both Windows and Linux environments.
• Ensures systems software is provisioned, installed, and configured securely.
• Eliminates service bottlenecks through a pooled capability model.
• Maintains critical disaster recovery and documentation standards.
• Participates in a 24-hour on-call rotation for incident management and group coverage during normal business hours.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 7+ years maintaining enterprise and/or research systems and platforms.
• 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 (RHEL/Ubuntu preferred).
• Scripting experience in PowerShell and Bash to automate operational and administrative tasks.
• Proficiency in enterprise configuration management using SCCM, Puppet, Ansible, or OpenVox.
• Proven expertise in version control workflows using Git to ensure infrastructure is managed as code.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing hybrid cloud platforms (Azure, GCP).
• 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).
• 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.
• Willingness and ability to support a diverse and inclusive environment.
• 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.

Requirements

• A successful completion of a criminal background check and education verification is required.

Benefits

• Please review additional information on the Benefits of Working at Brown.