Junior Infrastructure Engineer

The Junior Infrastructure Engineer is an entry-to-mid-level technical role on the Infrastructure team responsible for supporting, maintaining, securing, and helping evolve Pampered Chef's hybrid infrastructure across on-premises, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. Working collaboratively within the technology organization, this engineer plays a key role in ensuring the reliability, security, performance, and recoverability of critical infrastructure services.

The ideal candidate possesses foundational systems administration skills, experience supporting cloud-based services, an interest in automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, and a passion for continuous learning. This role will actively participate in infrastructure operations, cloud administration, security hardening, automation initiatives, disaster recovery preparedness, and operational excellence efforts.

Key Responsibilities

Server and Operating System Administration

• Maintain and support Windows and Linux server environments, ensuring availability, performance, and security across both on-premises and cloud-hosted workloads.
• Upgrade and maintain core infrastructure services, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP.
• Implement regular software updates, patches, and security updates to optimize performance and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Troubleshoot server, operating system, and infrastructure-related issues to ensure reliable service delivery.

Cloud Infrastructure Administration & Security

• Deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain cloud infrastructure hosted within AWS and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Support AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch, and backup and recovery services.
• Assist in the design, implementation, and support of secure cloud architectures following company security standards and industry best practices.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, capacity, cost optimization, and security risks.
• Support cloud security controls, including identity and access management, role-based access controls, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and infrastructure hardening.
• Support cloud and infrastructure disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity initiatives, including participation in recovery testing activities.

Virtualization

• Administer and maintain Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtualization environments, supporting VM provisioning, lifecycle management, and resource optimization.
• Participate as an active member of the SecOps team, contributing to virtual infrastructure management with an emphasis on Infrastructure-as-Code principles.