Technology Server Engineer Lead

Job Description

Job Title:

Digital Technology Server Engineer Lead

Job Location:

Menasha, WI
Eligibility/Clearance: ship 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.

Enterprise Compute and Virtualization Platform Management
- 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.

Infrastructure Operations and Platform Reliability
- 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.

Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
- 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.

Virtualization Ecosystem and Modern Platform Integration
- 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 Oshkosh'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…