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Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
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What they do
A Systems Engineer creates computer and data communication networks for companies and organizations. Plans and designs layout for a network, determines the hardware needed and placement of computers, servers, cables and routers; determines data storage, system capacity, and speed.
$127,307 / year median in Massachusetts
-1% projected decline
Job Description
Job Listing ID:
4562518
Job Title:
Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
Application Deadline:
Open Until Filled
Job Location:
Salem
Date Posted:
09/03/2026
Hours Worked Per Week:
Not Provided
Shift:
Not Provided
Duration of Job:
Either Full or Part Time, more than 6 months
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Job Summary Job Description As a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in the pre-sales, designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our customers AI and machine learning initiatives. You will work closely with customer technical teams (data scientists, software engineers, and Infra/IT professionals), sales team, and internal cloud services team to ensure their AI/ML solutions are deployed efficiently, securely, and at scale. Your expertise will be crucial in optimizing our infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. In this hands-on technical role you'll troubleshoot issues for proof of concept (POC) and production deployments. Responsibilities Key Responsibilities System Design & Architecture
- System Scalability:
- Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
- Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
- Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
- Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
- Implements performance and load testing. System Design & Architecture
- System Reliability Design:
- Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
- Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability. System Design & Architecture
- System Reliability Performance:
- Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
- Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
- Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health. System Design & Architecture
- Correctness /
Availability:
- Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
- Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
- Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
- Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
- Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
- Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
- Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
- Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
- Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date
Automation & Change Management:
- Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
- Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
Core Responsibilities Planning & Execution:
- Track timelines .
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Compensation
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Job Requirements
Experience Required:
See Job Summary
Education Required:
None
Minimum Age:
N/A