Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Role: Full-Time, Senior IC with Path to Tech Leadership

Location: Dallas, TX candidates considered with the expectation of frequent travel to Ashburn (typically 1 week per month, sometimes more for major deployments or incidents). Northern Virginia (Ashburn/Reston/Sterling) or DC metro preferred for proximity to our NTT VA1 datacenter.

Mission: Own HypeProxies' infrastructure end-to-end, stabilize our hosting fleet across Ashburn and Dallas, and grow into the technical leader of the engineering team.

The Company

HypeProxies is one of the fastest-growing infra-first proxy and server companies in the market.

We've built:

• 20+ cabinet footprint in Ashburn,VA and Dallas,TX
• A world-class brand and reputation
• 1000+ Servers sold and managed internally
• Proxmox-based VPS platform serving hundreds of B2B and Data Collection teams
• Custom proxy engine and VPS platform
• A small, technical team that outperforms teams of greater size

What we need next is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who can own the entire infrastructure layer.

A scrappy, hands-on operator who blends:

• Deep Linux and virtualization expertise
• Linode / Vercel level infrastructure thinking
• Hosting/ISP operational instincts
• Hardware-level fluency (iDRAC, IPMI, BIOS, BGP,Redfish Api)
• Bias toward action and self-direction
• Ai-Native 
• Ability to write code and automate, not just operate
• Extreme Ownership
• Documentation discipline

What You Will Own

• Own Proxmox at scale across VA1 and DA6 (500+ VPS Servers)
• Own the monitoring and alerting buildout (Fix gaps in hardware and software monitoring )
• Hardware asset tracking and make it the source of truth
• Own backup architecture (we sell backup services and need it bulletproof)
• Own access control hardening across infrastructure
• Lead the migration from Squid to our custom proxy engine alongside the CEO
• Build runbooks for every standard procedure
• Drive Ansible playbook adoption for repeatable deployments
• Own or delegate response to alerts end-to-end
• Coordinate with Datacenter remote hands when physical work is needed
• Visit Datacenters in person when on-site work is required
• Eventually lead a small team of junior engineers and interns as we grow

You will be the technical backbone of the company.

Responsibilities

1. Infrastructure Stability & Operations

• Own day-to-day health of the entire Infrastructure
• Build and maintain monitoring systems (node health, iDRAC checks, network alerts etc)
• Standardize firmware, BIOS, and iDRAC configurations across all Servers
• Audit end to end and implement automation across the entire fleet
• Implement bulletproof backup architecture for VPS customers
• Drive incident response and post-mortems

2. Documentation & Knowledge Capture

• Build a dependable runbook library 
• Document standard procedures: Squid restart, Proxmox node deployment, iDRAC bootstrap, network failover
• Capture tribal knowledge from existing team and integrate into documents
• Standardize onboarding procedures for technical hires

3. Automation & Tooling

• Write Ansible playbooks for repeatable infrastructure deployments
• Build ai-enabled monitoring agents that page the right person at the right time
• Identify manual processes and automate them with AI
• Reduce toil systematically

4. Network & Hardware Coordination

• Work alongside the Network Engineers on network architecture (BGP, transit, IX peering)
• Coordinate hardware procurement, installation, and decommissioning
• Manage the relationship with remote hands at our Datacenter POPs.
• Visit DC’s personally when issues require on-site eyes

5. Leadership Trajectory

• In the first 6-12 months: prove ownership as a strong senior IC
• In the next 12-24 months: hire and mentor junior engineers and interns
• Long-term: grow into Head of Engineering / CTO as the company scales 

KPIs

• Fleet uptime above 99.95% 
• Monitoring coverage at 100% of production nodes within 90 days
• Documented runbooks for every standard procedure within 6 months
• Backup system fully implemented and tested within 90 days
• Reduction in time-to-resolve for incidents quarter over quarter
• Migration completed without customer-impacting outages

You Are a Fit If…

You:

• Have 4-8 years in hosting operations, ISP infrastructure, or B2B colo environments
• Have run Proxmox, Proxy Software, KVM, or VMware at meaningful scale
• Are fluent in Linux administration, iDRAC, IPMI, and Server hardware
• Have worked with BGP, transit, and data center networking concepts
• Have written Ansible, Bash, or Python to automate infrastructure work
• Are using Ai Agents to automate projects and monitoring
• Can identify issues independently and fix them without oversight
• Can hold yourself to high standards without daily oversight
• Want to grow into a tech leadership role over the next 24 months
• Are excited to work directly with the CEO on hard technical problems

You Are Not a Fit If…

We want to ensure a good fit by being transparent:

• You need clear processes, defined run-books, and a mature ecosystem to be productive - we don't have those yet, you'll be building them
• You're coming from a 1000+ person enterprise and expect that pace and structure
• You wait for tickets to be assigned to you instead of grabbing them
• You see chaos as a blocker rather than an opportunity to create order
• You're looking for a clock in clock out 9-to-5 with predictable workloads
• You haven't built or broken something on your own time in the past year

What Makes This Role Special

• You'll own the infrastructure for a profitable, growing B2B infra company at a pivotal scaling moment
• You'll work directly with the CEO on architecture decisions
• You'll have full ownership of your domain 
• You'll grow into a technical leadership role naturally as the team scales
• You'll see your decisions ship the same day you make them
• You'll be a key hire in a small team where your fingerprints will be visible on everything

Compensation & Benefits

• Base: $100,000 - $150,000. The salary range vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.
• Performance bonus tied to fleet uptime, project delivery, and customer-impacting incident reduction
• Equity after 12 months based on performance
• Health insurance
• 4 weeks of paid PTO per year, with an additional 2 days added for each completed year as part of a progressive PTO policy.

If you want to join a fast-growing product company, be among the first technical hires, and have the chance to help shape and scale the infrastructure as the company grows, come talk to us.