Infrastructure Engineer - Platform Engineering & Automation

About the role

Garda Capital Partners, an alternative investment firm, is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own Platform Engineering and Automation. The role builds and operates shared deployment capabilities for infrastructure and selected applications, provides advanced infrastructure engineering and production support, and works with architecture, application owners and regional teams to improve platform reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and recurring operational problems, troubleshooting across Windows/Linux, identity, networking, cloud, virtualization, storage and backup
• Lead root-cause analysis and turn recurring incidents into engineering work or documented standards
• Take part in major changes, recovery events and follow-the-sun handoffs
• Build automation with 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 with validation, environment promotion, health checks and rollback; apply Git, peer review, automated tests, change controls and secure secrets handling
• Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and alerting, and tune operational signals to reduce noise
• Maintain reusable provisioning workflows and self-service capabilities, and drive platform reliability and lifecycle improvements with service owners
• Mentor engineers and workplace technology staff, review infrastructure code and pipeline designs, and maintain runbooks, diagrams and onboarding guidance
• Maintain a prioritized platform backlog with the architect and regional leads

Required profile

• 4-6 years of hands-on infrastructure operations experience across several domains
• Degree in IT, computer science, computer engineering or a related field
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and incident-response skills
• Ability to document work, mentor others and collaborate across a distributed team
• Preferred: experience in financial services or another performance-sensitive environment, and a history of mentoring and knowledge sharing

Required skills

• Advanced PowerShell or Python automation, including API integration
• Infrastructure as code or configuration management (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD pipelines (Git, testing, secure deployment, rollback)
• Monitoring, logging, alerting and observability concepts
• Preferred: AWS, container platforms, Azure, ITSM and familiarity with provisioning workflows for infrastructure and business applications