Sr. Compute Platform Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Compute Platform Engineer, this Long-term Contract position. This role is 4 days/week onsite with our client in Greensboro, NC. The role combines hands-on engineering with architectural guidance across virtualization, cloud-connected workloads, disaster recovery, and cross-functional infrastructure coordination.

The Senior Compute Platform Administrator is accountable for the reliable operation, lifecycle management, security, resilience, and continuous improvement of server, virtualization, virtual desktop, infrastructure, cloud-workload, and disaster-recovery platforms. The role provides hands-on engineering leadership across Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware, Nutanix, Cisco UCS, Lenovo/IBM xServers, Nvidia agents/licensing for VDI and applicable Windows workloads and AWS compute workloads. The position owns infrastructure recovery planning and testing, leads complex incident resolution, and provides secondary coverage for storage connectivity and recovery operations.

The role operates within global standards, ITSM controls, vulnerability and patch programs, and governance expectations.

Own OS, virtualization, compute-platform, VDI-infrastructure, and DR operations, lifecycle, availability, patching, and technical standards Lead incident response, troubleshooting, RCA, vulnerability remediation, and service-restoration activities for assigned platforms.

Perform and coordinate hands-on data-center infrastructure work for assigned platforms, including hardware installation and removal, rack/stack, cabling, diagnostics, parts replacement, RMA activity, remote hands, vendor coordination, and technical decommissioning. Plan and execute platform upgrades, capacity reviews, recovery runbooks, DR exercises, and corrective actions.

Coordinate compute workload administration, platform integrations, and changes with global, regional, application, network, security/IAM, and data-platform teams. Administer and maintain platform-specific access controls for assigned infrastructure in accordance with client's security and access-management processes.

Maintain runbooks, architecture documentation, monitoring requirements, cross-training, and secondary coverage for storage-related recovery