As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will build, automate, and maintain IT infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and performance. Responsibilities include managing Linux systems, developing automation scripts, and providing expertise during incidents.
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the Role
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will build, automate, and maintain robust IT infrastructure. You’ll ensure high availability, security, and performance through modern automation practices. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Linux environments, scripting, automation, and troubleshooting complex system issues. You will play a key role in maintaining system uptime, implementing security best practices, optimizing performance, and supporting a dynamic team of software and systems engineers.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain Linux-based systems, including physical and virtual servers, virtualization platforms, and storage systems.
- Manage and administer on-premise and Cloud-based IT Infrastructure (VMware, AWS).
- Develop automation scripts using IAC tools to build highly automated and scalable Linux systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Design and implement components that are highly available and self-healing.
- Assist with escalated incidents and provide subject matter expertise.
- Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
What You'll Need
- 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration in a production environment.
- Expert knowledge of Linux fundamentals around filesystems, process scheduling, and virtual memory.
- Extensive expertise in virtualized environment management such as vCenter.
- In-depth understanding of the TCP/IP network protocol and addressing.
- Proficiency in using HTTP APIs in Python, Golang, or an equivalent language.
- Experience with configuration management platforms such as Ansible or similar.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or similar.
- Experience with metrics, monitoring, and visualization tools.
- Ability to work remotely
- Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
- $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
- 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
- PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!
Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
What We Offer
The base salary range for this position is $135K to $145K/year. Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data. Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time.
Business Wire’s total rewards include:
A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Go
Linux
Python
Terraform
VMware
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