Job Title: Senior UCS/VMWare Lead Engineer () - Direct Client - Full time

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Manage the day-to-day Broadcom VMWare administration tasks, VM server builds, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Manage the day-to-day Cisco UCS administration tasks, physical server builds, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Manage the day-to-day SAN technologies administration tasks, provisioning, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Manage the day-to-day backup and replication administration tasks, backup job reviews, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Manage the day-to-day systems operations (troubleshooting, performance, configuration, maintenance, and patching)
• PowerShell on an intermediate to expert level for various job level tasks.
• Ensure that records of systems and equipment inventory are properly maintained.
• Participate in projects to implement applications to the server infrastructure in support of a business need or a business solution to ensure operational reliability.
• Ensure high availability and acceptable levels of performance of critical system resources.
• Develop and coordinate project directions and schedules to maximize benefits and minimize impacts on the customer organizations.
• Participate in planning and implementation of projects for system operations and systems administration.
• Plan, organize and document complex system design activities and configure systems to be consistent with policies/procedures.
• Interface with peers, and managers to evaluate and understand business needs.
• Participate in the investigation and resolution of security related incidents.
• The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list, and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time, or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS) Education: Bachelor s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems (MIS), or a related discipline. Equivalent combination of training and experience may be considered.
Experience: Minimum of seven (7) years relevant systems administrator experience, including data center experience, complex physical and virtual systems design (on-premises, cloud is not a requirement), scripting, and systems software and support. Must have experience in the design, planning, and implementation of reliable enterprise level systems.

Additional experience must include:

• VMware ESXi, 7.x, 8.x, VCF 9.x
• Cisco UCS / UCS-X Series
• SAN Technologies (Nimble, Pure Storage, etc.)
• Cisco MDS switching technologies
• Backup, Recovery, and Replication Technologies (Veeam, Zerto, Exagrid, etc.)
• Datacenter Knowledge/Experience, Rack and Stack Storage, Servers, and Equipment
• Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025
• Windows File Server Management, SMB, CIFS
• Active Directory, DFS, DFS-R, DNS, DHCP, GPO s, PKI, etc.
• Monitoring and Management Technologies, WUG, SCOM, VeeamOne
• PowerShell Scripting
• Security Best Practices
• Windows OS patching and remediation
• DR / BCP methodologies

Additional/Preferred:

• VMware NSX (system segmentation / micro-segmentation)
• Microsoft Azure Technologies
• Basic understanding Linux operating systems. (Red Hat, RH OpenShift, Oracle Linux)
• Networking Technologies