Systems Engineer I

Essential Functions:

• Analyzes, architects, designs, configures, installs, and manages enterprise server, storage, and hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Administers the Nutanix environment end to end, including AHV clusters, Prism Central and Prism Element, node and cluster expansion, AOS and LCM upgrades, Nutanix Files and Objects, and capacity planning.
• Maintains up to date knowledge of server, storage, and hypervisor vendor technologies and associated software.
• Engages in technical administration of physical and virtual servers running Windows Server and Linux, along with clusters, load balancers, and out of band management.
• Designs and maintains automation for provisioning, patching, configuration, and remediation using Ansible Automation Platform (Ansible Tower), PowerShell, and Python. Treats manual, repeatable work as a defect to be automated.
• Writes, reviews, and maintains infrastructure as code and playbooks in source control, with peer review and version history.
• Configures, monitors, and troubleshoots enterprise systems equipment and the supporting monitoring and alerting stack.
• Resolves complex issues spanning compute, storage, network, OS, and application layers.
• Assists other teams with installing and configuring Windows and Linux servers and provides automated build standards so those teams can self-serve.
• Works with vendors such as Nutanix, Microsoft, and enterprise storage and backup providers.
• Designs, tests, and documents backup, replication, and disaster recovery, including restore testing and recovery time validation.
• Mentors other Systems Engineers and raises the team's automation and scripting skill level.
• Provides on call support required to bring production systems to operational states.
• Oversees diagnosis and troubleshooting activities and resolves technical problems that occur.
• Performs system administration functions necessary to support continuous day to day operations.
• Performs expansion, relocation, and consolidation of systems infrastructure for all corporate locations.
• Develops and maintains systems documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Supports patching, hardening, and audit and compliance requirements through documented change control.
• Provides root cause analysis for outages and delivers SOPs.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
• Minimum five (5) years experience with Microsoft and Linux Server OS, VMware, Backups.
• Experience with PowerShell, Scripting and Automation required.
• Experience or knowledge with Docker/Container services preferred.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Experience migrating from on-premise data center to AWS

Pay Range: $105,000.00 - $150,000.00/yr