Engineer (1510)

Sharp Decisions; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Decisions in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Data Center Engineer for a hybrid, long-term contract. The role requires 5+ years of data center experience, with a banking/financial services focus.

You will analyze technical issues across systems, applications, or infrastructure and support complex migration and decommissioning activities. The position calls for coordination with application, infrastructure, and business teams to minimize risk and ensure business continuity, with potential weekend

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in data center engineering or equivalent.
• Experience supporting data center exit programs and migrations.
• Background in storage, compute/virtualization, and infrastructure build activities.

Responsibilities

• Analyze technical issues, develop solutions, and support IT systems.

Skills

Data Center Engineering

Hybrid work readiness

Banking/Financial industry experience

Issue analysis and solutioning

Migration support (storage/compute/VM)

Cross-team coordination

Weekend/after-hours support

Job description

Provides technical solutions across systems, applications, or infrastructure.

Title: Data Center Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC - Hybrid

Type: Long Term Contract

No Third Party Allowed

Industry: Banking/Financial preferred

Year of Experience: 5+ years

Summary

Provides technical solutions across systems, applications, or infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Analyze technical issues, develop solutions, and support IT systems.

Skills

• Relevant technical background and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting Data Center Exit programs and infrastructure migration initiatives.
• Experience supporting both Storage and Compute/Virtualization workstreams.
• Experience with storage migrations, server migrations, and virtual machine migrations.
• Experience with environment build activities, testing, cutover execution, post-migration validation, and decommissioning activities.
• Ability to coordinate closely with application, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure business continuity while minimizing operational risk.
• Willingness and flexibility to perform migration activities during evenings and weekends to avoid disruption to production services.
• Ability to support migration and cutover activities almost every weekend through August 2027, based on the current migration schedule.