IT Compute Storage Engineer

IT Compute Storage Engineer supports the day-to-day operation, maintenance, security, availability, and lifecycle management of the organization's server, virtualization, storage, backup, recovery, and related infrastructure platforms. The position responds to incidents, service requests, monitoring alerts, operational tasks, and approved changes while following established security, change-management, and support procedures.

The Engineer installs, configures, patches, monitors, troubleshoots, documents, and maintains physical and virtual servers, operating systems, storage platforms, data-protection systems, infrastructure appliances, and related services. The position also supports server provisioning and decommissioning, capacity and performance monitoring, backup and recovery activities, disaster recovery exercises, certificate and access-related tasks, and vendor-supported maintenance.

The role is primarily focused on reliable day-to-day operations but also participates in infrastructure upgrades, lifecycle initiatives, migrations, automation efforts, and other projects. The role is expected to identify recurring operational issues, improve documentation, recommend practical process improvements, and gradually assume greater ownership as knowledge and experience increase.

* The candidate must be within one hour to the Cincinnati area. This role can be hybrid or remote but will need to be open to on-call issues throughout the week and weekend.*

Here’s a glimpse of your responsibilities and the meaningful impact you’ll create as the IT Compute Storage Engineer:

• Monitor, administer, and maintain physical and virtual servers, Windows/Linux systems, virtualization, storage, file services, and backup/recovery platforms.
• Respond to incidents, service requests, alerts, changes, and operational issues in accordance with service expectations.
• Perform server provisioning, patching, upgrades, decommissioning, storage allocation, backups, restores, and routine maintenance.
• Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, virtualization, storage, backup, connectivity, performance, and availability issues.
• Execute approved changes and follow established security, change-management, and recovery procedures.
• Monitor system health, capacity, performance, logs, backups, and vendor notifications; address or escalation issues as needed.
• Participate in 24x7 on‑call rotation and scheduled after‑hours maintenance and recovery activities.
• Collaborate with Security, Networking, Database, Application, Service Desk, and vendor teams to resolve issues and support infrastructure operations.

• Participate in infrastructure projects involving servers, virtualization, storage, backup, disaster recovery, operating systems, and data center technologies.
• Support upgrades, migrations, hardware refreshes, capacity expansions, and technology implementations.
• Develop implementation, testing, validation, and backout plans for assigned project work.
• Support disaster recovery exercises, testing, and documentation.
• Maintain technical documentation, procedures, inventories, change records, and knowledge articles.
• Identify opportunities to automate and improve recurring processes using scripting and infrastructure tools.
• Identify recurring issues, capacity concerns, and process improvements to enhance reliability and efficiency.
• Participate in knowledge sharing, cross‑training, technical reviews, and mentoring of team members.

• Competitive pay: Fair compensation for your hard work.
• Healthcare coverage: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision from day one.
• Life insurance: Company‑paid coverage for you and your loved ones.
• 401(k) plan: Matching contributions to help secure your…