Associate Engineer, Server

## Associate Engineer, Server Apply locations:
Headquarters, Winston Salem, NCtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JY2627379

The Associate Engineer, Server Systems is responsible for supporting the operation, administration, monitoring, and maintenance of Inmar's server infrastructure across production, development, QA, warehouse, data center, and cloud environments.
This role supports the Server Team in managing a hybrid infrastructure footprint that includes on-premises systems, virtualized platforms, cloud services, storage, backups, identity services, file services, remote desktop services, and related enterprise technologies. The Associate Engineer will assist with daily operational support, incident response, maintenance window activities, documentation, SOP execution, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting, and project tasks under the guidance of more senior engineers.
The ideal candidate has a service-oriented mindset, a strong sense of ownership, foundational server administration experience, and a desire to grow technical depth across Windows, Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, automation, and cloud infrastructure. This position requires working knowledge of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform infrastructure concepts, including compute, storage, networking, identity/access management, monitoring, and basic operational support of cloud-hosted systems.#

Primary Accountabilities## Technical Operations and Production Support - 100%
* Support production, development, QA, warehouse, and cloud-based server environments.
* Respond to assigned tickets, alerts, service requests, and operational tasks in a timely and professional manner.
* Assist with investigation, troubleshooting, escalation, and mitigation of incidents affecting server, operating system, storage, virtualization, identity, backup, or cloud infrastructure services.
* Participate in scheduled maintenance windows, including patching, system upgrades, configuration changes, validations, and post-change support.
* Participate in the on-call rotation after appropriate training and readiness, responding to critical alerts and escalating as needed.
* Follow documented SOPs for operational tasks, including backups, restores, patching, monitoring, server builds, account administration, service checks, and recovery procedures.
* Create, update, and maintain technical documentation, knowledge articles, diagrams, checklists, and SOPs.
* Support server lifecycle activities, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, patching, decommissioning, and technical debt reduction.
* Assist with backup validation, restore testing, replication checks, and business continuity activities to help ensure systems meet recovery objectives.
* Support internal teams by helping troubleshoot issues between applications, operating systems, storage, network, identity, cloud platforms, and server infrastructure.
* Assist with routine administration of Windows Server, Linux, Remote Desktop Services, DNS, DHCP, IIS, FTP, SMTP, file services, and other supported server technologies.
* Support Active Directory-related tasks, including basic user, group, computer, service account, GPO, and permissions administration while following separation-of-duties and least-privilege practices.
* Support virtualization and server platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and physical server hardware.
* Support enterprise storage and data protection technologies as assigned, including file servers, SAN/NAS platforms, backup systems, replication tools, and restore processes.
* Assist with Azure

AD / Entra  cloud identity integrations, SSO-related support, and hybrid identity troubleshooting.
* Use monitoring tools, logs, scripts, and command-line utilities to identify issues, validate service health, and support operational reliability.
* Contribute to automation efforts using Power Shell, Bash, Python, Ansible, PDQ, or similar tools.
* Follow change control, security, compliance, access management, and documentation standards.
* Demonstrate ownership of assigned tasks from intake through completion, including clear communication, status updates, documentation, and handoff where needed.#

Required Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical field; or equivalent combination of education, experience, and technical training/certifications.
* 1-3 years of experience in server administration, systems support, infrastructure operations, desktop/server support, cloud operations, or a related technical role.
* Foundational experience with Windows Server administration.
* Foundational experience with Linux administration or willingness to develop Linux support skills.
* Required working knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud infrastructures, including core concepts related to compute, storage, networking, identity/access management, monitoring, availability, and security.
* Ability to support…