IT Systems Engineer – AI-Ready Data Center & Storage

Digital Edge DC; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Edge DC is seeking a System Engineer to deliver and operate server, virtualization and storage infrastructure across its data centre portfolio. You will work closely with the Principal System Engineer to translate designs into deployments, perform standard tasks, and escalate complex issues to maintain a stable, secure platform.

The role requires hands-on expertise in servers, virtualization, storage, and networking, plus automation and strong documentation.

Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Typically 5+ years of hands-on server, virtualization and storage experience in data centres or service providers.
• Experience with at least one enterprise virtualization platform (VMware/Nutanix/Proxmox) including clustering and HA.
• Solid server hardware knowledge, firmware/lifecycle management and out-of-band management.
• Practical SAN/storage skills: Fibre Channel, iSCSI, zoning, LUNs, multi-pathing, RAID and replication.
• Automation skills with Ansible, Terraform and Python; strong documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure and maintain servers to designs and build standards; verify hardware and hypervisor compatibility.
• Plan patches and updates for hosts/clusters; validate compatibility and rollback.
• Provision workload resources and deliver upgrades, migrations, and hardware refreshes.
• Maintain accurate asset, configuration, test and support records.

Skills

Server hardware & mgmt

Enterprise virtualization

Storage & SAN

Linux/Windows Server

Networking fundamentals

Automation (Ansible Terraform Python)

Documentation & process discipline

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Proxmox VE / Ceph

VMware vSphere / vSAN

Nutanix

Hyper-V

ZFS

SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco)

RDMA/RoCE basics

Job description

Digital Edge DC is seeking a System Engineer to deliver and operate server, virtualization and storage infrastructure across its data centre portfolio. You will work closely with the Principal System Engineer to translate designs into deployments, perform standard tasks, and escalate complex issues to maintain a stable, secure platform.

The role requires hands-on expertise in servers, virtualization, storage, and networking, plus automation and strong documentation.