Infrastructure Engineer, Manufacturing & Datacenter

The posting, as Harbinger Motors wrote it

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Role Summary

Harbinger is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and performance of our end-to-end infrastructure, from the factory floor to the datacenter. We're looking for someone with a builder mentality who thrives working on-site in partnership with Business systems, Facilities, and Production teams. You should be as comfortable working alongside factory technicians on the production floor as you would be drawing diagrams and writing Ansible playbooks.

What You'll Do

Build, manage, and support end-to-end infrastructure across the factory floor. From core datacenter systems to edge devices like production compute, MES stations, and networked IoT equipment (connected tools, PDCs, HMIs, and similar)

Design, deploy, and maintain on-prem compute and storage, including virtualization clusters, physical servers, and SAN, NAS , and object storage that support manufacturing and engineering workloads

Own backup, replication, and disaster recovery for on-prem systems, including regular restore testing and documented recovery targets

Plan capacity and hardware lifecycle for servers, storage, and datacenter power and cooling, including sizing, purchasing, and refresh

Champion an Infrastructure as Code culture, using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet to eliminate manual toil and automate provisioning, configuration, and deployments

Implement and manage GitOps workflows for infrastructure delivery, applying SRE principles to ensure 24/7 availability and robust system performance

Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems for proactive issue identification and rapid incident response

Participate in on-call rotations to support business continuity and system stability

Work on-site to manage physical datacenter and factory-floor edge hardware, collaborating closely with local engineering and manufacturing teams

Who You Are

Experience

5+ years of experience in systems engineering, network engineering, endpoint management, or infrastructure operations

Technical Competencies

Deep expertise in Linux and Windows

Strong hands-on experience with virtualization (VMware vSphere, Proxmox, or Hyper-V) and containerization

Experience with enterprise server hardware (Dell, HPE , or Supermicro) and storage platforms such as SAN, NAS , and hyperconverged systems, including RAID, iSCSI, NFS , and SMB

Experience with backup and disaster recovery tools such as Veeam, Rubrik, or Cohesity

Solid understanding of networking, including switching, firewalls, and w
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