Senior Infrastructure Engineer (VMware, Data Center & DR) – Contract | New York

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (VMware / Data Center / DR) – Contract

📍 Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
🏢 Data Center Access: Edison, NJ (Iron Mountain – approx. monthly visits)
⏳ Contract Length: 6–12 months (urgent requirement)
🕒 Engagement Type: Contract
🚨 Start: ASAP

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on a contract basis to support a mission-critical on-prem and data center infrastructure environment. This is an urgent requirement, with the client looking to onboard the right consultant quickly.

The role is heavily focused on VMware administration, physical server management, Cisco infrastructure, and Disaster Recovery, supporting both Production (data center) and DR (on-prem) environments.

This position suits a hands-on senior engineer with 13–15+ years of infrastructure experience, strong ownership mentality, and deep expertise across virtualization, storage, DR, and core Microsoft technologies.

Key Responsibilities

Virtualisation & Compute

• Administer and manage a large VMware environment, including:

• Security patching

• Version upgrades

• Performance monitoring and optimisation

• Manage and support physical servers across:

• Production data center (Iron Mountain – NJ)

• On-prem Disaster Recovery environment (NY office)

Cisco Infrastructure

• Administer, maintain, and troubleshoot:

• Cisco UCS X

• Cisco UCS Manager

• Ensure stability, performance, and lifecycle management of compute infrastructure

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Own Disaster Recovery operations, including:

• Zerto administration

• Execution of annual DR testing

• Recovery planning, validation, and reporting

• Maintain DR readiness across on-prem environments

Storage Management

• Manage and support storage platforms including:

• Production: Pure Storage (iSCSI all-flash)

• DR:

• 2 × HP MSA all-flash arrays

• QNAP (primary backup target)

• DAS

• Perform storage monitoring, maintenance, and optimisation

Backup, Restore & Patch Management

• Manage native backup and restore operations

• Configuration Manager patching and maintenance

• Ensure data protection best practices are followed

Microsoft & Identity Services

• Administer Active Directory infrastructure

• Support Exchange / O365 hybrid environment

• 2 on-prem Exchange servers (latest version)

SQL Server (Basic Administration)

• Support SQL Servers hosted on an on-prem cluster:

• Database maintenance

• Performance monitoring

• Indexing, query tuning, and configuration optimisation

End User & Application Platforms

• Support VDI backend infrastructure:

• Omnissa Horizon

• 2 gateways

• 2 RDS hosts

• ~150 virtual desktops

• Support application servers including:

• Internal business application servers

• (Exposure to WSO application servers is a plus but not mandatory – training can be provided)

Required Experience & Skills

• 13–15+ years of hands-on infrastructure engineering experience

• Deep expertise in VMware administration

• Strong experience managing physical servers and data center infrastructure

• Solid hands-on experience with Cisco UCS / UCS Manager

• Proven experience running DR environments and Zerto

• Strong storage experience across enterprise storage arrays

• Working knowledge of:

• Active Directory

• Exchange / O365

• SQL Server administration (support-level)

• VDI backend platforms

• Comfortable operating in production-critical environments

• Able to work independently and take full ownership of infrastructure

Nice to Have

• Experience with Omnissa Horizon (VDI)

• Exposure to financial services or regulated environments

• Experience supporting internally developed or niche application platforms

Work Pattern

• Primary location: New York office

• Data center travel: Edison, NJ (typically once per month)

• Hybrid working with hands-on infrastructure access as required

Why This Role

• Critical, high-impact infrastructure ownership

• Senior-level responsibility without unnecessary bureaucracy

• Immediate need – strong chance of extension for the right consultant

• Opportunity to stabilise and improve a complex on-prem environment

Senior Back End Engineer – Python - USA, Remote - $123,000 - $127,000

Senior Back End Engineer – Python

USA, Remote

$123,000 - $127,000

Job Description

Does music move you the same as building technology? Are you looking to work on something to believe in? Our Engineering team is looking for you here at our company.

Location

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL

Who We Are

We are the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use our Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As we continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

Who We’re Looking For

The Senior Backend Engineer, Catalog acts as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers to help us create software and services for our catalog.  As a technical subject matter expert, this role is instrumental in driving our catalog technology vision forward and evangelizing development and testing practices that drives the catalog transformation and growth strategies. Requires great ability to multi-task across projects as well as to adapt to different areas of the code where previous knowledge, skills, and experience may not exist. This role provides strong technical leadership and mentorship to develop the capabilities of other team members. This role motivates and fosters collaboration across the teams.

What You’ll Accomplish

·        Acts in a senior-level capacity for the technical development and delivery of features within the catalog, coordinating with Product, UX, QA, and other teams.

·        Provides senior-level technical expertise in evaluation, conceptualization, design and development of features.

·        Develops and maintains software following an Agile/Scrum methodology.

·        Participates at a senior level in the breakdown of stories into technical design and implementation tasks and participates in sprint planning and other scrum methodologies, including estimation and prioritization of development efforts.

·        Drives for continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and usability of features.

·        Works with privacy and security teams to ensure proper architecture and maintenance.

·        Follows accessibility practices in the development of software.

·        Communicates effectively with tech and non-tech members, and is capable of delivering feedback to peers and their lead.

·        Coaches and mentors other engineers while still maintaining deep individual and team-level contributions.

·        Exemplifies how to write and review code and act on data feedback to decide what to build next.

·        Monitors and supports health of features in production.

·        Develops a working knowledge of tertiary domains.

What You’ll Contribute

·        Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience.

·        5+ years related work experience.

·        Preferred technical skills - required when noted. We will consider candidates who have some or all of these skills.:

·        Python expertise (required)

·        Messaging technologies: Kafka strongly preferred

·        Data: MySQL, AWS RDS

·        Service-oriented architecture: GraphQL, REST

·        Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD

·        AWS technologies: EKS / EC2, RDS

·        Search: ElasticSearch

·        Observability: DataDog, Sentry, New Relic, other

·        Other tools: GitHub, JIRA, Slack, Confluence

·        Capable of delivering small-to-medium features all the way through from technical design to launch with no guidance.

·        Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.

·        Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members.

·        Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from stakeholders

·        Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.

·        Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas

What We Provide

·        Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program

·        401(k) with employer match

·        100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents

·        4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure

·        18 weeks paid leave for birth moms

·        8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption

·        Monthly wellness allowance

·        Annual professional and personal development allowance

·        Work from home office set-up and expense allowances

·        Flexible work location opportunities

·        Employer matching toward charitable contributions

What We Believe In

Our companies’ mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community, and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.