Digital Technology Server Engineer Lead
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Job Location:
Menasha, WI - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 92600 - 154400
Posted on:
11 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Oshkosh we build serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 18000 team members all united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.
Server Engineer - Lead (Enterprise Compute and Virtualization)
Enterprise infrastructure role focused on Intel-based compute virtualization operations automation and adjacent technology integration.
The Server Engineer - Lead is a senior technical contributor responsible for architecting operating and optimizing Oshkosh Corporations 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 Oshkoshs 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 Oshkoshs 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 Oshkoshs 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 companys 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 .
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.
Pay Range:
$92600.00 - $154400.00The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range individual pay is determined by various factors including the scope and responsibilities of the role the candidates experience education and skills as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth and success.
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Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.
Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporations legal duty to furnish information.
Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be U.S. Persons as defined in these regulations. Generally a U.S. Person is a U.S. citizen lawful permanent resident or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
At Oshkosh, we build some of the industry's toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. And while machines are our business, it’s about building, protecting and serving communities across the world.
