Garda is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own Platform Engineering & Automation. This hands-on role builds and operates shared deployment capabilities for infrastructure and selected applications, while providing advanced infrastructure engineering and production support.
The engineer develops reusable deployment pipelines, infrastructure templates, and self-service workflows that help teams provision environments and release changes consistently - working with architecture, application owners, and regional teams to improve platform reliability and resolve complex infrastructure problems.
Position ResponsibilitiesEscalation & Infrastructure Support
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and recurring operational problems
- Troubleshoot across Windows/Linux systems, identity, networking, cloud, virtualization, storage, and backup
- Lead root-cause analysis and convert recurring incidents into engineering work or documented standards
- Participate in major changes, recovery events, and follow-the-sun handoffs
Platform Engineering & Deployment Automation
- Build automation using PowerShell, Python, and APIs with production-quality testing and error handling
- Own reusable infrastructure-as-code and configuration templates (Terraform, Ansible)
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications, including validation, environment promotion, health checks, and rollback
- Apply Git, peer review, automated tests, change controls, and secure secrets handling
Observability, Reliability & Standards
- Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and automated health checks
- Tune operational signals to reduce noise and improve detection/recovery
- Maintain reusable provisioning workflows and self-service capabilities
- Own platform reliability and lifecycle improvements with service owners
Technical Leadership
- Mentor engineers and workplace technology staff in troubleshooting and automation practices
- Review infrastructure code and pipeline designs with architecture, Security, and application owners
- Maintain runbooks, diagrams, and onboarding guidance
- Maintain a prioritized platform backlog with the architect and regional leads
Qualifications & Desired Skills- 4-6 years of hands-on infrastructure operations experience across several domains
- Degree in IT, computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
- Advanced PowerShell or Python automation experience, including API integration
- Practical experience with infrastructure as code or configuration management
- Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (Git, testing, secure deployment, rollback)
- Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and incident-response skills
- Working knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability concepts
- Ability to document work, mentor others, and collaborate across a distributed team
Preference for experience with:
- AWS, container platforms, modern cloud operating patterns (Azure a plus)
- Experience delivering reusable provisioning workflows for infrastructure and business applications
- Familiarity with ITSM, change, incident, and problem-management practices
- Experience in financial services or another performance-sensitive environment
- Track record of solving complex infrastructure problems and building shared capabilities other teams can use independently
- Strong track record of maintaining high standards for reliability, documentation, and maintainability
- Experience remaining effective under pressure, with a history of mentoring and knowledge-sharing within teams
This role is also eligible for other forms of compensation and benefits, such as a discretionary bonus, healthcare plan, 401(k) matching program, etc. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education.
Base Salary for this role is expected to be between:
$135,000-$165,000 USD
