Data Center Engineer

Location: Hybrid in Austin, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington DC, or Denver, United States. Limited travel may be required, and offer-stage candidates may attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.

Estimated annual salary: $120,000–$165,000 for Washington D.C. Metro and Washington (Kirkland) hires; $98,000–$135,000 for Colorado hires. Compensation may vary by work location.

Company

hirify.global operates a global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications for customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Maintain the operational availability of data center environments and hirify.global’s global network.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Network Engineering, SRE, deployment teams, vendors, providers, logistics partners, and remote contractors.
• Support and configure physical network infrastructure, including work in remote colocation facilities.
• Create and maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, method-of-procedure documents, plans, and operational processes.
• Use AI and automation tools to reduce repetitive work, accelerate documentation, and improve troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation supporting 24×7 network availability.

Requirements

• Experience with Juniper, Cisco, and DWDM network equipment.
• At least 4 years of Linux systems administration experience.
• Experience managing and instructing remote contractors and supporting infrastructure delivery through partners.
• Understanding of data center colocation environments, network architecture, server technologies, and data center operations such as deployment, migration, and decommissioning.
• Experience improving operational processes and automation in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to handle prioritization, planning, scheduling, status reporting, documentation, and basic program management responsibilities.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, MIS, or a related technical field.
• Experience with complex infrastructure projects, DCIM tools, configuration management, or scripting in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Linux or network certifications, including RHCSA, CCNA, or JNCIA.
• Experience with load balancers and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, or Apache.
• Experience with large-scale SaaS infrastructure or multilingual, multinational operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a highly visible engineering role supporting infrastructure across more than 330 cities and 125 countries.
• Health, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, fertility, family-forming, and mental health benefits.
• Global travel medical insurance and disability, life, and accident insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan and employee stock participation plan.
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, plus parental, medical, pregnancy health, and bereavement leave.
• Equity plan participation is available for this role.

Hiring process

• Applicants progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• Employment may require authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export control laws without sponsorship for an export license.