Job Description
About the Opportunity
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A well-established national manufacturer is growing its infrastructure team. After several acquisitions, the company’s server footprint has roughly doubled, and it needs a hands-on engineer to help bring a mix of inherited environments under one standard. This is a working engineer role, not a management or pure architecture seat. You’ll build, fix, and improve the systems yourself.
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What You’ll Do
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- Run and maintain core Windows and Linux services: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, file and print
- Support on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments end to end: builds, patching, upgrades, monitoring, security, and cost control
- Manage AWS resources across compute, storage, databases, monitoring, and security
- Maintain and harden VMware environments, including troubleshooting and performance tuning
- Automate repeatable work with PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
- Build scripts, reports, and integrations that cut manual effort
- Own backup, recovery, and DR testing for assigned systems, aligned to RTO/RPO targets
- Write and maintain runbooks, standards, and technical documentation
- Assess legacy systems, plan consolidations and migrations, and help decommission what’s no longer needed
- Give input on lifecycle planning, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure budgets
- Work within ITIL change, incident, and problem processes
- Partner with vendors, security, network, and application teams on projects and issues
- Take part in a light on-call rotation and occasional after-hours maintenance windows
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What You Bring
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- 5+ years in server administration, infrastructure engineering, or cloud engineering (server side, not desktop or endpoint)
- Solid hands-on Windows Server and Linux experience in multi-site environments
- Experience running VMware or a comparable virtualization platform
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or another public cloud
- Scripting or automation skills in PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar
- Working knowledge of patching, monitoring, backup, DR, hardening, and lifecycle management
- Comfort pushing back on requirements and proposing better solutions
- Clear communication and strong documentation habits
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
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Nice to Have
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- Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, SaltStack, or other IaC and config management tools
- Hybrid environments spanning on-prem and cloud
- Azure, Nutanix, or AIX exposure
- Cloud migration or platform consolidation projects
- Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps, Azure Administrator, VMware VCP, or Red Hat
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