Senior Infrastructure Architect/Engineer

*** IT'S A W2 CONTRACT ROLE, NO C2C / 1099 ***

Senior Infrastructure Architect/Engineer

Location: Greensboro, NC (4 days/week onsite along with 1 day/week remote)

Contract Duration: 6 months with a possibility of extension

WANTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or an associate degree, military/industry training, and equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of progressive enterprise infrastructure or systems-administration experience.
• 5+ years administering enterprise server and virtualization platforms
• 3+ years supporting DR planning, exercises, failover, or infrastructure recovery.
• Advanced VMware vSphere experience, including installation/upgrade of ESXi hosts, host and datastore cluster configuration, virtual switch VLAN configuration, performance and capacity management, and end-to-end operational support.
• Advanced Windows Server (2016 and higher) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.x and higher) administration experience.
• Advanced Cisco UCS platform experience, including configuration and ongoing management of server profiles/templates and Fabric Interconnect network/storage connectivity.
• Experience with Nutanix AOS platform and other x86 server hardware.
• Experience supporting AWS EC2 workloads and related platform integrations.
• Experience with operational automation using tools such as Ansible or comparable scripting and configuration-management tools.
• Working knowledge of NAS, SAN, and backup platforms; experience with Dell PowerStore, Isilon/OneFS, Avamar, Data Domain, and Cisco SAN switching preferred.
• Experience with ITSM, 24x7 operations, change control, patching, vulnerability remediation, major incidents, and RCA. Strong preparation and presentation skills for upper Management Levels as well as stakeholder’s status reports.