Infrastructure Development Engineer

Job Title: Infrastructure Development Engineer  Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Infrastructure Development Engineer with our client located in Dallas, TX. Job Description: We are looking for an Infrastructure Development Engineer to design, operate, and scale foundational datacenter services that power bare-metal, virtualization, and cloud-adjacent platforms. This role owns the automation to boot and manage critical services such as corporate IPAM/DDI, CMDB, and datacenter bootstrapping systems. You will work across hardware, networking, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure is discoverable, automated, reliable, and ready for self-service consumption. Job Responsibilities: Build automation and tools in Python Develop Python-based tools and services for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and self-service workflows Automate repetitive operational tasks (imaging, deployments, health checks, remediation) and reduce manual intervention Integrate with internal and external APIs to orchestrate infrastructure workflows (compute, storage, network, cloud) Developers with experience in other programming languages, such as C++ or Java, will also be considered. Software Defined Network Services: IPAM, DDI & CMDB Own and operate the corporate IP Address Management (IPAM) and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) platforms. Design scalable IP allocation, DNS, and DHCP strategies across multiple datacenters and environments. Integrate IPAM/DDI systems with provisioning, bootstrapping, and CMDB workflows. Act as a steward of the CMDB, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and automation-driven updates. Define and enforce standards for asset discovery, lifecycle state, and dependency mapping. Monitoring, observability, and reliability Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Nagios or similar) Define and track key metrics (availability, latency, capacity, error rates), and drive improvements based on data Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes and runbooks. Job Qualifications: Experience with bare-metal provisioning and hypervisor deployment. Hands-on experience with OpenStack, VMware, KubeVirt, or similar virtualization platforms. Deep understanding of IPAM, DNS, and DHCP at enterprise scale. Experience operating or integrating CMDB systems as a source of truth. Solid knowledge of datacenter networking concepts, including Fibre Channel. Proficiency with Linux systems and troubleshooting at hardware and OS layers. Experience building infrastructure automation and onboarding pipelines. Familiarity with API-driven integrations and workflow orchestration. Ability to reason about infrastructure as a platform, not just individual systems. Comfortable working cross-functionally with hardware, network, storage, and SRE teams. Strong operational mindset with a focus on reliability, correctness, and supportability. Ability to drive ambiguous problems to clear, automated solutions. Nice To Have: Experience with large-scale internal platforms or “infrastructure as a product”. Background in SRE or reliability engineering. Exposure to self-service infrastructure platforms and developer enablement. Experience operating in multi-datacenter or hybrid environments. Server Bootstrapping & Provisioning automation Familiar with datacenter bootstrapping services, including PXE, imaging, and initial OS/hypervisor provisioning. Ensure seamless handoff from hardware arrival to production-ready infrastructure. Improve time-to-serve metrics for new racks, clusters, and testbeds. Job Details: Contract: 6 months Pay Rate: $65 - $72 an hour. Location: Dallas, TX. Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan. About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.