Systems Engineer; On-Site St. Louis

PLEASE NOTE:
This position requires permanent U.S. work authorization. Candidates requiring current or future visa sponsorship, including those on OPT, CPT or H1/H4, are not eligible for this role. This role is not open for staffing partners or corp‑to‑corp candidates.

Why WWT?

World Wide Technology (WWT) strives to make a new world happen. WWT's work benefits clients and partners as much as it does its people and community across the globe.

Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technicalexpertiseand world-class partnerships to help public and private sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity,cloudand infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)—a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software—WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test andvalidateinnovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration anddistributioncapabilities.

With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations globally, WWT's culture—grounded in core values and leadership philosophies—has been recognized by Fortune® and Great Place to Work for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT provides products and services to large enterprise, global serviceproviderand public sector clients in up to 130 countries across six continents.

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What will you be doing?

World Wide Technology (WWT) is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Business Infrastructure Services team, with the opportunity to convert to a full-time role based on performance and business need. World Wide Technology, Inc., has an opportunity for a Systems Engineer to help support a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, networking, operating systems, monitoring, backups/recovery, automation frameworks, and potentially end user technologies.

This role requires the ability to provide on-site support at our Integration Center and demands strong communication skills to collaborate with Integration Center leadership and cross-functional IT resources.

As a Systems Engineer, your primary objective is to design, install, and maintain the infrastructure services within our Integration Center (lab) environments. You must be able and motivated to expand your technical knowledge and skills through a combination of formal training, self-directed training, and on-the-job experience.

As in all things at WWT, we are looking to take our organization to the next level. Even though we say our responsibility is to manage the above items, we are expected to continually look for enhancement opportunities for the support and services we offer to our stakeholders. We are looking for candidates who continually strive to improve themselves so they can improve the organization as well.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Vx Rail
• Manage existing configuration management and automation
• Familiar with the following Operating Systems
  • VMware ESXi, Windows Server (Active Directory, DHCP, File Share, Terminal Services), and Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
• Able to automate IaaS, PaaS technologies
• Power Shell
• Python
• Ansible
• Or similar programming languages that assist in automation
• Creative thinker who looks for new ways to solve problems
• Provide typical systems administration support (OS, server hardware & Tier 2/3 ticket support)
• Perform routine equipment checks and preventative maintenance
• Capacity planning and performance planning
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with vendors
• Document the policies and procedures to support the Integration Center Infrastructure environments and participate in the design and ongoing refinement of procedures and policies
• Provide on-call support per the published schedule

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least 3 years of experience managing a VMware environment
• At least 3 years of experience building automation with tools such as:
  • Power Shell
  • Python
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • BASH
• At least 5 years of…