Job Title: Digital Technology Server Engineer Lead
Job Location: Menasha, WI
Eligibility/Clearance: ship required as this supports a
federal customer
The Server Engineer - Lead is a senior technical contributor responsible
for architecting, operating, and optimizing organizations enterprise
compute and virtualization ecosystem. This role ensures the security,
stability, scalability, and lifecycle management of a large fleet of
Intel-based server hardware and virtual infrastructure built on VMware
and other hypervisors that support critical manufacturing, ERP,
engineering, and enterprise business applications across data center and
hybrid cloud environments.
The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in enterprise
server hardware, virtualization, automation, and infrastructure
operations to drive operational excellence, standardization, resiliency,
and modernization. They will be accountable for the full compute
platform stack, from hardware strategy and firmware governance to
virtualization design, performance optimization, capacity planning, and
operational support, while advancing automation, monitoring, and
platform engineering practices that improve reliability and efficiency
at scale.
Enterprise Compute and Virtualization Platform Management
- Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and
operational support of Oshkosh's large-scale enterprise compute
environment, including Intel-based server platforms and
virtualization platforms based on VMware and other hypervisors.
- Manage server hardware standards, platform design, firmware
strategy, host lifecycle management, and infrastructure refresh
planning across the enterprise.
- Oversee the health, performance, availability, and capacity of
virtualization environments, including hypervisor hosts, management
platforms, clusters, distributed resource scheduling, and high
availability configurations.
- Design and maintain resilient compute and virtualization solutions
that support mission-critical enterprise workloads with strong
emphasis on uptime, recoverability, and operational consistency.
- Partner with storage, networking, backup, security, and application
teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability of hosted
workloads.
- Establish and maintain operational standards for provisioning,
patching, upgrades, host remediation, and configuration consistency
across the compute estate.
Infrastructure Operations and Platform Reliability
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and
virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and
restoration efforts for critical platform issues.
- Drive proactive management of system health, resource utilization,
hardware events, performance bottlenecks, and operational risks
across the compute environment.
- Lead capacity planning and performance optimization efforts for
compute, memory, clustering, and virtualization resources to support
current and future business demand.
- Oversee platform resilience through design and support of
high-availability, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery aligned
infrastructure services.
- Ensure enterprise operational readiness for maintenance events,
lifecycle transitions, incident response, and business continuity
requirements.
Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Architect and maintain automated workflows using tools such as
Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as
PowerShell or Python for provisioning, configuration management,
patching, and compliance activities.
- Build and enhance automation for hypervisor host deployment, cluster
configuration, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement.
- Codify operational procedures and infrastructure standards into
repeatable, auditable automation workflows to reduce manual effort
and improve consistency.
- Support infrastructure change through automated validation, testing,
and deployment processes that improve quality and reduce risk.
Virtualization Ecosystem and Modern Platform Integration
- Lead engineering and administration of virtualization platforms,
including core hypervisor services, cluster design, host profiles,
virtual networking coordination, and integration with enterprise
storage and backup platforms.
- Maintain deep expertise in Vmware, as well as other hypervisors and
technologies that make up Oshkosh's enterprise compute portfolio.
- Maintain familiarity with adjacent technologies supporting the
virtual infrastructure ecosystem, including hyperconverged
platforms, disaster recovery tooling, monitoring systems, VMware
Aria Operations, container platforms, and hybrid cloud extensions
where applicable.
- Maintain familiarity with public cloud compute services and how
enterprise workloads, recovery strategies, and management practices
may extend into Azure, AWS, or similar environments as part of a
broader infrastructure portfolio.
- Collaborate with platform, cloud, and application teams to support
evolving infrastructure patterns, including integration with private
cloud and container-hosting platforms where virtual infrastructure
is foundational.
- Provide technical leadership on modernization opportunities that
improve efficiency, scalability, recoverability, and operational
simplicity across the enterprise compute platform.
Monitoring, Visibility, and Operational Insight
- Maintain and enhance platform visibility through enterprise
monitoring, alerting, and performance analytics tools, including
VMware Aria Operations, Grafana, and related ecosystem tooling, to
support rapid issue detection and response.
- Establish dashboards, alert thresholds, and operational reporting
for server hardware health, virtualization performance, resource
consumption, capacity trends, and availability.
- Use telemetry, trend analysis, and platform insights to inform
capacity decisions, lifecycle planning, and service improvement
initiatives.
- Partner with enterprise monitoring and operations teams to improve
actionable insight across the compute and virtualization landscape.
Collaboration and Leadership
- Serve as a subject matter expert and technical leader for enterprise
server hardware and virtualization technologies.
- Mentor junior engineers and help establish best practices for
compute operations, virtualization engineering, automation,
lifecycle management, and operational monitoring.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with infrastructure, security,
architecture, and application stakeholders to align platform
capabilities with business priorities.
- Contribute to strategic planning, roadmaps, standards development,
and investment recommendations for enterprise compute and
virtualization services.
YOUR IMPACT
The Server Engineer - Lead is essential to ensuring the stability,
performance, and evolution of Oshkosh's enterprise compute and
virtualization ecosystem. By combining deep server expertise with strong
knowledge of VMware, VMware Aria Operations, and other hypervisors,
along with operational leadership and automation discipline, this role
drives reliability, standardization, and scalability across one of the
company's most critical infrastructure foundations. This position is a
cornerstone of modern infrastructure operations, balancing day-to-day
platform resilience with the engineering rigor required to support
future growth, modernization, and digital transformation.
An advance understanding of multiple server aspects and environment in
order to take ownership of most aspects from end to end.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Regular attendance is required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Five (5) or more years of experience in the field or in a related
area.
- Monitoring, troubleshooting, customer service, problem solving,
cross team collaboration, risk analysis, analytical, operating
systems, hardware, infrastructure design, scripting
- Strong communication, time management, problem solving, teamwork,
leadership, mentoring, project management, business acumen,
requirements gathering, planning.
STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience: 7+ years administering and architecting enterprise
server infrastructure and virtualization environments at scale.
- Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of Intel-based enterprise
server hardware, VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware Aria
Operations, and comparable virtualization platforms, including
clustering, virtualization performance tuning, and infrastructure
lifecycle management.
- Platform Operations: Strong experience managing large virtualized
environments supporting mission-critical enterprise applications in
a highly available and regulated setting.
- Automation: Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and
scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for infrastructure
automation and operational efficiency.
- Hardware Lifecycle Management: Experience with firmware baselines,
hardware compatibility, server provisioning, vendor
interoperability, and compute platform refresh strategy.
- Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of integration points
across compute, storage, networking, backup, disaster recovery,
identity, monitoring, and container platforms.
- Container Familiarity: Familiarity with container management
platforms and how virtual infrastructure supports solutions such as
OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar enterprise container ecosystems.
- Public Cloud Familiarity: Working familiarity with public cloud
compute services and adjacent infrastructure patterns in Azure, AWS,
or similar environments, with understanding of how they complement
enterprise data center operations.
- Monitoring and Reliability: Experience with enterprise monitoring,
alerting, and operational visibility platforms used to manage
compute and virtualization health and performance, including VMware
Aria Operations or similar platforms.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead complex infrastructure
initiatives, mentor technical staff, and drive cross-functional
operational improvements.
- Soft Skills: Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving
skills with a focus on platform stability, scalability, and
continuous improvement.
Arena Technical Resources, LLC, (ATR) is an Equal Opportunity Employer
(EOE) who will provide equal employment opportunity to employees and
applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion,
color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status,
family structure, genetic information, or mental or physical disability.
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