The role
Wilkes & Liberty needs an Infrastructure / Platform Engineer who can turn operating constraints into a secure, recoverable environment. You will own the substrate beneath delivered systems and leave the client with versioned configuration, tested recovery, and the knowledge to run it.
This role is distinct from DevOps / SRE. You own where and on what systems run. DevOps / SRE owns how software is shipped and kept reliable on that substrate.
What you will own
- Design and implement infrastructure for the assigned engagement — cloud, on-prem, or hybrid as the client estate demands.
- Express environments as configuration-as-code with versioned, reviewable changes.
- Establish hardening, access, and network boundaries appropriate to the data and mission.
- Own capacity, backup, restore, and patch posture for environments in scope; run restoration drills so recovery is proven.
- Provide platform services, including runtime, data stores, and edge, that application engineers can build on without re-solving substrate problems.
- Document exit and portability paths so the client is not locked into an opaque managed arrangement.
- Partner with the Security / Architecture Reviewer on threat-relevant design without absorbing compliance authoring.
- Partner with DevOps / SRE on the handoff between environment and delivery flow.
- Document topology and operator runbooks so the client team can inherit and change the estate.
What you bring
- You have designed and operated production infrastructure for multi-service systems.
- You reason about network, identity, and data boundaries under real constraints.
- You leave versioned configuration, tested recovery, and usable documentation — not tribal knowledge.
- You collaborate with application engineers and security reviewers without collapsing those roles into yours.
- You prefer durable operations foundations clients can inherit over black-box administration.
Helpful experience
- Linux estates, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code.
- Supporting CMS/web platforms or similar stateful application stacks.
- Federal, SLED, or regulated environments with strict change windows and configuration evidence.
- Backup and restore drills, capacity planning, and documented exit and portability for client estates.
Equal opportunity and accommodations. Wilkes & Liberty considers qualified candidates without regard to protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.