Senior Infrastructure Design Engineer - RHEL

Job Description

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer designs, engineers, and supports complex physical and cloud‑hosted data center environments, including networking, compute, storage, platforms, middleware, databases, and telephony. This role independently evaluates current and future requirements to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective infrastructure solutions, develops and maintains technical standards and documentation, leads proof‑of‑technology efforts, and collaborates closely with technical teams, business partners, and leadership to plan, assess, and resolve data center and cloud infrastructure design challenges. 

What You’ll Do   

• Design and develop complex infrastructure solutions across network, compute, telephony, platform, middleware, and database technologies, ensuring technology currency and capacity alignment with SLAs.
• Establish and maintain hardware and software performance standards while serving as the SME for emerging technologies and strategic vendor solutions.
• Lead infrastructure design for major projects, collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners, and vendors to ensure solutions align with architectural intent.
• Ensure operational readiness through performance tuning, systems support, incident resolution, and planning and execution of software installations and upgrades.
• Maintain standardized engineering procedures and contribute to broader architectural roadmaps, strategies, and standards.
• Present new technologies to leadership and mentor junior team members to support capability growth and consistency across the team.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
• 5+ years of experience in RHEL/Linux
• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in RHEL/Linux

Bonus Points 

• Experience with Ansible or other automation
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite
• Experience with AWS and/or IBM AIX
• Understanding of Security hardening (CIS benchmarks, STIGs)
• Familiarity with network, compute, telephony, platform, middleware and database solutions

What You’ll Get 

• The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community  
• Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work   
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs   
• Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance   
• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education   
• 401k match including an annual company contribution   
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Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets,  licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs. 

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.
 

$107,901.00 - $172,642.00

Skills

Data Center Design, Data Center Infrastructure Design, Data Center Networks, Data Center Operations, Data Infrastructure, Information Technology (IT) Services, Information Technology Architecture, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), IT Service Management (ITSM), Network Infrastructures