Junior Infrastructure- Lab Engineer

Description:

VAST Data is looking for a Junior Infrastructure - Lab Enginner to join our growing team!

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market."- Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

The Role:

This is an internal-facing, hands-on technical role supporting the field engineering organization through lab infrastructure management, environment automation, and internal tooling development.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and automate lab infrastructure spanning storage clusters, compute nodes, and networking equipment
• Develop and maintain internal tooling including provisioning scripts, CLI utilities, monitoring dashboards, and web portals
• Author and maintain Ansible playbooks and Python-based automation to reduce manual operational overhead
• Deploy and manage containerized services on Docker and Kubernetes in lab environments
• Support VMware/vSphere-based infrastructure including virtual machine lifecycle management and storage integration, with active participation in an ongoing migration to Proxmox
• Assist in reproducing and isolating customer-reported issues within controlled lab environments
• Maintain accurate and current technical documentation

• Demonstrated proficiency with Linux systems administration — networking, storage, filesystems, systemd, and CLI tooling
• Working knowledge of Python sufficient for developing and maintaining automation and internal tooling
• Solid understanding of core networking concepts
• Familiarity with Docker and foundational container operations
• Methodical approach to troubleshooting with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues across multiple layers of the stack

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes distributions (k3s, k8s, or equivalent)
• Exposure to VMware vSphere or ESXi administration; Proxmox experience a plus
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch)
• Network switch administration experience (Cumulus, Arista, Cisco, or similar)