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Overview
Corporate Tools is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Hosting for up to $150,000/year. You will be a traditional company employee. This is a remote position, but if you're near one of our local offices, you're welcome to come hangout with us in-office as well. Our main offices are in Post Falls, ID, and Spokane, WA; we also have satellite offices in Johnston, IA, Austin, TX, and Salt Lake City, UT. You'll be working 40 hours a week and, of course, enjoy great company benefits.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Hosting you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and management of hosting environments, DevOps pipelines, and data center infrastructure. Yes, a lot of your work is behind the scenes...but everything you do should have the customer in mind. This role involves maintaining the performance, security, and scalability of both on-premise data centers and cloud-based systems. They will automate system deployments and updates, monitor infrastructure performance, and resolve any issues related to hosting, server management, or network connectivity to ensure that business-critical applications are always available and performant.
A key aspect of this position is working with cross-functional teams to implement DevOps best practices, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated provisioning tools. The engineer will also be tasked with managing cloud resources, optimizing data center operations, and ensuring the security and compliance of both physical and virtual environments. A deep understanding of traditional data center operations, IT, and infrastructure is essential to support our customers.
Wage
$150,000 / year (*up to), depending on experience
Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
• Annual review with raise option
• 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
  • After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company-not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
  • The 4 holidays are: New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
• Paid Parental Leave
• Up to 6% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
• Quarterly allowance
  • Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
• Open concept office with friendly coworkers
• Creative environment where you can make a difference
• No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
• Trail Mix Bar - oh yeah

Responsibilities

• Develop and design robust and scalable hardware solutions
• Take ownership of projects from conception to deployment, ensuring timely delivery and meeting the specified requirements
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including IT, product management, and other software teams, to ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Proxmox VE clusters for virtualization or other hypervisors
• Implement high-availability (HA) and failover solutions for virtual machines
• Manage resource allocation (CPU, memory, disk, network) to optimize performance for hosted applications
• Automate VM deployment and configuration using Ansible, Terraform, or SaltStack
• Maintain backups and disaster recovery plans for virtualized environments
• Design and manage Ceph clusters or SAN storage (iSCSI, NFS, ZFS, etc.) for high-performance, redundant storage
• Monitor and optimize storage performance, including IOPS, latency, and throughput
• Implement snapshots, replication, and backup strategies for critical workloads
• Manage and harden Linux-based servers (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, or RHEL) for security and performance
• Configure and optimize web servers (Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, Traefik) for hosting
• Troubleshoot kernel, process, and application-level issues in Linux environments
• Ensure smooth operation of Docker and Kubernetes environments

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in Linux system administration, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Proxmox or other hypervisors (VMware, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V)
• Experience with Ceph or SAN storage solutions for virtualization
• Ability to manage kernel tuning, system performance, and process optimization
• Hands-on experience with Ceph storage, ZFS, iSCSI, NFS, RAID, and SAN architectures
• Understanding of storage performance metrics (IOPS, throughput, latency)
• Ability to work on projects solo or with a team
• Love for learning and improving code
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with WordPress hosting, database replication, and caching techniques
• Knowledge of MySQL/MariaDB performance tuning and high-availability configurations
• Proficiency in setting up and managing load balancers (HAProxy, Nginx, Traefik)
• Strong troubleshooting skills for system crashes, performance issues, and storage failures
• Promox Expertise
• Experience in DevOps, software or other technical departments