Server Engineer Lead

Server Engineer Lead Menasha, WI Direct Hire SALARY: $110K - $130K

Position will not have any direct reports. Looking for a lead candidate in technical management. Must be local and be able to work at the office 3 days a week.

Hours:

Monday-Friday 8AM-4PM with on call.

Top 3 qualifications:

• Enterprise level data center experience.
• Automation/Compute
• Strong communication and collaboration.

Interview Process:

• Teams video technical screening onsite interview
• Must be able to travel 10-15% of the time to local data centers.
• Must be US citizen only-ITAR required

• Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and operational support of Client's large-scale enterprise compute environment, including Client-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 enterprise storage and backup platforms.
• Maintain deep expertise in VMware, as well as other hypervisors and technologies that make up Client's enterprise compute portfolio.
• Maintain familiarity with adjacent technologies supporting the virtual infrastructure ecosystem, including hyperconverged platforms, disaster recovery tooling, monitoring systems, VMware Aria Operations, container platforms, and hybrid cloud extensions where applicable.
• Maintain familiarity with public cloud compute services and how enterprise workloads, recovery strategies, and management practices may extend into Azure, AWS, or similar environments as part of a broader infrastructure portfolio.
• Collaborate with platform, cloud, and application teams to support evolving infrastructure patterns, including integration with private cloud and container-hosting platforms where virtual infrastructure is foundational.
• Provide technical leadership on modernization opportunities that improve efficiency, scalability, recoverability, and operational simplicity across the enterprise compute platform.

• 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.
• Establish dashboards, alert thresholds, and operational reporting for server hardware health, virtualization performance, resource consumption, capacity…