Optomi, in partnership with a leading organization, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Server Infrastructure & Automation to help modernize and automate enterprise data center infrastructure. This role will focus heavily on infrastructure automation and software engineering, with approximately 80% of the work centered around automation and 10–20% focused on physical infrastructure. The ideal candidate will understand server infrastructure at a deep technical level while using Python, Ansible, and software engineering practices to automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, ticketing, and lifecycle management.

What the Right Candidate Will Enjoy:

Building automation for enterprise server infrastructure!

Modernizing legacy infrastructure and operational processes!

Developing self-monitoring and self-healing infrastructure capabilities!

Automating bare-metal server and operating system environments!

Working across Windows and Linux infrastructure!

Building playbooks and infrastructure automation solutions!

Helping transition a traditionally contractor-heavy organization toward modern, automated infrastructure operations!

Experience of the Right Candidate:

Strong infrastructure software engineering background

Experience building software and automation within an infrastructure domain

Deep understanding of enterprise server infrastructure and operating systems

Strong Python and/or Ansible experience

Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, or remediation

Experience working with legacy infrastructure and modernizing existing environments

Understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems

Experience with bare-metal infrastructure and data center environments

Strong troubleshooting and systems engineering skills

Responsibilities:

Develop automation solutions for enterprise server infrastructure and data center operations

Automate server provisioning, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and lifecycle activities

Build and maintain Python and Ansible playbooks and automation frameworks

Develop self-monitoring and automated remediation capabilities

Automate incident detection and ticket creation through infrastructure monitoring

Support bare-metal operating system deployments and lifecycle management

Analyze legacy infrastructure and identify opportunities for automation and modernization

Develop infrastructure standards, procedures, and automation playbooks

Troubleshoot server, operating system, and infrastructure issues

Collaborate with data center, network, security, and infrastructure teams

Commit automation and infrastructure playbooks into established repositories and operational frameworks

Help establish scalable, repeatable infrastructure management processes

Support the transition toward a hybrid cloud infrastructure strategy

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Python, Ansible, Go, or Java

Experience with Linux infrastructure

Windows Server administration experience

Infrastructure-as-Code experience

Git and CI/CD experience

Experience with server hardware, firmware, drivers, and out-of-band management

Experience with monitoring, alerting, and ITSM platforms

Experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure

Experience developing self-healing or autonomous infrastructure