Infrastructure & Cloud Systems Engineer

We are looking for a sharp, hands‑on Infrastructure & Cloud Systems Engineer who thrives in both the data center and the cloud. You’ll own the reliability, performance, and security of our hybrid infrastructure — from bare‑metal HPE servers and VMware clusters to Azure cloud environments — and drive the automation and engineering discipline that keeps everything running at peak efficiency. This is a high‑impact role for someone who moves fast, thinks in systems, and takes ownership.

• Administer and optimize physical and virtual server environments across on‑premises data centers, including resource allocation (CPU, memory, storage), capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
• Manage VMware vSphere/vCenter environments — including ESXi host configuration, VM provisioning, cluster management, DRS/HA policies, and license allocation and optimization to control spend and maximize utilization.
• Perform regular hardware health monitoring, firmware patching, and hardware lifecycle tracking in coordination with vendor support.
• Own storage administration across SAN/NAS environments — LUN provisioning, volume management, performance tuning, and capacity forecasting.
• Maintain network fabric within the data center, including VLAN configuration, switching, and integration with enterprise routing and firewall infrastructure.
• Drive disaster recovery and business continuity for on‑premises systems — design, execute, and document DR/failover tests on a defined schedule; validate RTO/RPO targets and remediate gaps.

• Design, deploy, and maintain Azure infrastructure — compute, networking, storage, identity, and platform services — in alignment with architecture standards and security baselines.
• Manage Azure AD/Entra , RBAC, Conditional Access, and identity governance for both cloud and hybrid environments.
• Implement and maintain cloud cost governance — right‑sizing, reserved instance strategy, tagging hygiene, and license optimization across cloud resource pools.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep to ensure consistent, auditable, and repeatable provisioning.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment using Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions.

• Administer HPE Pro Liant and HPE Synergy compute platforms — server provisioning, firmware and BIOS management, iLO configuration, and hardware health monitoring.
• Manage HPE One View for composable infrastructure — server profile templates, firmware baseline management, and data center resource orchestration.
• Administer HPE Blade System and Synergy chassis environments including Virtual Connect fabric modules, interconnect configuration, and enclosure management.
• Manage HPE 3
  
  PAR and/or HPE Nimble Storage arrays — volume provisioning, thin cloning, snapshot scheduling, replication, performance tiering, and capacity optimization.
• Operate and maintain networking infrastructure within the data center, including segmentation, VLAN management, and integration with core routing.
• Leverage HPE Info Sight and Cloud Physics (or equivalent HPE AI Ops tools) for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and workload optimization across the HP stack.
• Coordinate with HPE support and field engineers for hardware break/fix, parts replacement, and proactive maintenance under active support contracts.

• Monitor and respond to infrastructure alerts across on‑prem and cloud using centralized observability platforms; drive incident resolution and root cause analysis.
• Automate operational workflows — patching, provisioning, remediation, compliance reporting — using Power Shell, Ansible, Python, or Azure CLI.
• Implement and enforce security controls: encryption at rest and in transit, vulnerability remediation, firewall policy management, logging, audit trails, and compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Administer core services: DNS, DHCP, certificate management, file and print, backup and replication, and endpoint configuration management.
• Maintain and test backup…