Server Engineer Lead Job Menasha area,Wisconsin USA,IT/Tech

Pay Rate: $110K - $130K
Location: Menasha, WI
Work Mode: Hybrid Summary:

Direct Hire
Hours:

Monday-Friday 8AM-4PM with on call
Must be able to travel 10-15% of the time to local data centers

Responsibilities:

Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and operational support of the company's large-scale enterprise compute environment, including server platforms and virtualization platforms based on VMware and other hypervisors.
Manage server hardware standards, platform design, firmware strategy, host lifecycle management, and infrastructure refresh planning across the enterprise.
Oversee the health, performance, availability, and capacity of virtualization environments, including hypervisor hosts, management platforms, clusters, distributed resource scheduling, and high availability configurations.
Design and maintain resilient compute and virtualization solutions that support mission-critical enterprise workloads with a strong emphasis on uptime, recoverability, and operational consistency.
Partner with storage, networking, backup, security, and application teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability of hosted workloads.
Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and restoration efforts for critical platform issues.
Architect and maintain automated workflows using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as Power Shell or Python for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance activities.
Maintain and enhance platform visibility through enterprise monitoring, alerting, and performance analytics tools, including VMware Aria Operations, Grafana, and related ecosystem tooling, to support rapid issue detection and response.

Requirements:

Five or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.
Must be a US citizen only-ITAR required.
Strong communication, time management, problem solving, teamwork, leadership, mentoring, project management, business acumen, requirements gathering, planning.

Preferred Skills:

Experience:

Minimum 7 years administering and architecting enterprise server infrastructure and virtualization environments at scale.
Technical Expertise:
Deep understanding of enterprise server hardware, VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware Aria Operations, and comparable virtualization platforms.
Automation:
Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as Power Shell or Python for infrastructure automation and operational efficiency.
Container Familiarity:
Familiarity with container management platforms such as Open Shift, Kubernetes, or similar enterprise container ecosystems.

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