Technology Server Engineer Lead

Job Title:

Digital Technology Server Engineer Lead

Job Location:

Menasha, WI Eligibility/Clearance: US Citizenship required as this supports a federal customer

The Server Engineer
- Lead is a senior technical contributor responsible for architecting, operating, and optimizing organizations enterprise compute and virtualization ecosystem. This role ensures the security, stability, scalability, and lifecycle management of a large fleet of Intel-based server hardware and virtual infrastructure built on VMware and other hypervisors that support critical manufacturing, ERP, engineering, and enterprise business applications across data center and hybrid cloud environments.

The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in enterprise server hardware, virtualization, automation, and infrastructure operations to drive operational excellence, standardization, resiliency, and modernization. They will be accountable for the full compute platform stack, from hardware strategy and firmware governance to virtualization design, performance optimization, capacity planning, and operational support, while advancing automation, monitoring, and platform engineering practices that improve reliability and efficiency at scale.

• Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and operational support of Oshkosh's large-scale enterprise compute environment, including Intel-based 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 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.
• Establish and maintain operational standards for provisioning, patching, upgrades, host remediation, and configuration consistency across the compute estate.

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and restoration efforts for critical platform issues.
• Drive proactive management of system health, resource utilization, hardware events, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks across the compute environment.
• Lead capacity planning and performance optimization efforts for compute, memory, clustering, and virtualization resources to support current and future business demand.
• Oversee platform resilience through design and support of high-availability, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery aligned infrastructure services.
• Ensure enterprise operational readiness for maintenance events, lifecycle transitions, incident response, and business continuity requirements.

• 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.
• Build and enhance automation for hypervisor host deployment, cluster configuration, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement.
• Codify operational procedures and infrastructure standards into repeatable, auditable automation workflows to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Support infrastructure change through automated validation, testing, and deployment processes that improve quality and reduce risk.

• Lead engineering and administration of virtualization platforms, including core hypervisor services, cluster design, host profiles, virtual networking coordination, and integration with…