Server Engineer with power plant migration experience

Server Engineer with power plant migration experience

Location: Miami, FL – Onsite

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Windows / VMware Infrastructure Engineer to manage, maintain, and support enterprise server infrastructure, virtualization environments, storage, backup, security, and disaster recovery operations. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Windows Server administration, VMware infrastructure, server migrations, and IT/OT environments, including supporting power plant applications.

Required Technical Skills

- Windows Server: Windows Server 2016/2019/2022/2025 administration, installation, configuration, patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

- VMware: VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter; VM provisioning, clusters, HA/DRS, snapshots, storage, and VM migration.

- Active Directory: AD DS, Group Policy, domain services, OU structures, authentication, service accounts, and domain migration.

- DNS / DHCP: DNS zones, records, forwarding, DHCP scopes, reservations, and troubleshooting.

- Server Migration: Physical-to-virtual (P2V), virtual-to-virtual (V2V), server refresh, OS migration, workload migration, application dependencies, and data migration.

- Power Plant IT/OT: Supporting servers used by plant applications, historians, engineering systems, and IT/OT supporting services.

- Storage: SAN/NAS concepts, Fibre Channel/iSCSI, LUNs, datastores, capacity management, and storage migration.

- Backup & Recovery: Veeam or enterprise backup platforms, restore validation, VM recovery, and migration rollback planning.

- Security & Hardening: Server hardening, vulnerability remediation, endpoint protection, privileged access, and security baselines.

- Automation: PowerShell scripting for builds, configuration, validation, inventory, and migration activities.

- Monitoring: Server health, availability, event logs, capacity/performance monitoring, and operational handover.

- High Availability / Disaster Recovery: Windows clustering, VMware HA, application resiliency, replication, and disaster recovery concepts.

Key Responsibilities

- Administer and maintain Windows Server and VMware infrastructure.

- Provision, configure, patch, and troubleshoot physical and virtual servers.

- Perform server migrations, upgrades, refreshes, and infrastructure modernization.

- Support Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and domain-related services.

- Manage VMware clusters, virtual machines, datastores, and resource allocation.

- Support IT/OT infrastructure for power plant applications and engineering systems.

- Coordinate storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery activities.

- Implement security hardening and remediate infrastructure vulnerabilities.

- Develop PowerShell scripts to automate routine infrastructure tasks.

- Monitor system performance, availability, and infrastructure capacity.

- Prepare migration documentation, validation reports, and operational handover.

- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting critical infrastructure or power plant environments.

- Strong troubleshooting and infrastructure migration experience.

- Experience with enterprise virtualization, backup, and storage platforms.

- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder coordination skills.

- Ability to work independently in an onsite enterprise environment.