Staff Software Engineer (Windows)
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About the role
Title: Staff Software Engineer (Windows)
Location: Remote
Duration: 4+ Months
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Job Description:
Infrastructure software engineer foundation
Expertise in building towards future Windows infrastructure rather than just administering existing Windows estates
Strong experience in Windows environments (Active Directory, SQL Server, .NET ecosystems)
Proven track record of modernizing Windows-based systems into Linux/open-source environments
Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
Extensive experience with automation and orchestration
Solid understanding of Linux systems and open-source tooling
Job Nice to Haves:
Background contributing to or working with cloud-native platforms (GCP, Kubernetes ecosystem)
Experience building platform services or internal developer platforms
Experience in highly regulated or mission-critical environments
About the Position / Current Initiatives:
Partnering with a leading enterprise organization to build a private cloud platform within their own data centers, focusing on delivering cloud-like capabilities across compute, storage, and networking, while modernizing a heavily Windows-based, mission-critical environment.
Build and improve infrastructure systems within a specific domain of expertise (Windows, VMware hypervisor, storage, Linux, or networking).
Understand existing systems at a deep technical level, automate them, improve stability, and help identify gaps.
Participate in designing new infrastructure that closes identified gaps. Contribute to a full DevOps lifecycle for infrastructure domains.
For Windows specialists, build towards the future rather than just administering existing Windows estates.
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