**Job Description** The Senior Infrastructure Engineer designs, engineers, and supports complex physical and cloud‑hosted data center environments, including networking, compute, storage, platforms, middleware, databases, and telephony. This role independently evaluates current and future requirements to deliver scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective infrastructure solutions, develops and maintains technical standards and documentation, leads proof‑of‑technology efforts, and collaborates closely with technical teams, business partners, and leadership to plan, assess, and resolve data center and cloud infrastructure design challenges.  **What You’ll Do**   + Design and develop complex infrastructure solutions across network, compute, telephony, platform, middleware, and database technologies, ensuring technology currency and capacity alignment with SLAs. + Establish and maintain hardware and software performance standards while serving as the SME for emerging technologies and strategic vendor solutions. + Lead infrastructure design for major projects, collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners, and vendors to ensure solutions align with architectural intent. + Ensure operational readiness through performance tuning, systems support, incident resolution, and planning and execution of software installations and upgrades. + Maintain standardized engineering procedures and contribute to broader architectural roadmaps, strategies, and standards. + Present new technologies to leadership and mentor junior team members to support capability growth and consistency across the team. **What You Bring** + Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required) + 5+ years of experience in RHEL/Linux + In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in RHEL/Linux **Bonus Points** + Experience with Ansible or other automation + Experience with Red Hat Satellite + Experience with AWS and/or IBM AIX + Understanding of Security hardening (CIS benchmarks, STIGs) + Familiarity with network, compute, telephony, platform, middleware and database solutions **What You’ll Get** + The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community  + Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work   + Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs   + Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance   + Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education   + 401k match including an annual company contribution   + Learn more (https://careers.bluecrossnc.com/global/en/benefits)    **Salary Range** At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs. _*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance._ $107,901.00 - $172,642.00 **Skills** Data Center Design, Data Center Infrastructure Design, Data Center Networks, Data Center Operations, Data Infrastructure, Information Technology (IT) Services, Information Technology Architecture, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), IT Service Management (ITSM), Network Infrastructures **About Us** It's an exciting time to work at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC). Health care is changing, and we're leading the way. We offer more than health insurance our customers can count on. We’re committed to better health and better health care − in our communities and beyond. Our employees bring energy and creativity to the workplace, and it shows in our innovative approach to improving the health and well-being of North Carolinians. Blue Cross NC is a fully taxed, not-for-profit company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. We serve more than 4.3 million members, and we employ more than 5,000 people across the country who are passionate about making health care better for all. Help us lead the charge for better health care by joining our award-winning team. Discover tremendous opportunities with us to do challenging and rewarding work. Opportunities that can lead you to a fulfilling career, work that can help others lead healthier, happier lives. **Authorization to Work in the United States** We use E-verify to confirm authorization to work in the United States. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit E-Verify Overview (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview) for English or Visión General de E-Verify (https://www.e-verify.gov/es/empleados/vision-general-de-e-verify) for Español. **Request Accommodations** Blue Cross NC provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please notify HR at HR.Staffing@bcbsnc.com . **For most roles, you can choose where to work - fully remote in one of the states listed below, in the office, or a hybrid of the two:** Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming