Hybrid Cloud & Virtualization Engineer

NPR; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

NPR is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Distribution IT Infrastructure team to manage, test, and maintain enterprise virtualization, servers, storage, and networking systems. You will deploy and troubleshoot VMware, Proxmox, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, or Nutanix to guarantee high availability and security across NPR's core distribution technologies.

The role sits at the intersection of physical and private cloud infrastructure, collaborating with Infrastructure and Security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise virtualization environments.
• Hands-on hardware/ rack and cabling experience in data centers.

Responsibilities

• Physical Infrastructure Build-Out: install, rack, cable, and configure new server, storage, and network hardware with firmware updates and RAID/BIOS configurations.
• Virtual Infrastructure Deployment & Maintenance: deploy, configure, and maintain virtualized systems using enterprise tools.
• Architecture Evaluation & Testing: evaluate architecture, compare applications, and create metrics for test environments.
• Change Management Implementation: follow change management policies and procedures.
• Operational & Capacity Support: support cloud/virtualization workflows and capacity planning.
• Security Alignment & Compliance: ensure configurations comply with security policies.
• Workflow & Process Analysis: document processes and identify improvements.
• Technical Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: create documentation and training materials.
• Incident Escalation & Operational Support: on-call rotation and 24x7 issue response.

Skills

System troubleshooting

Networking

Server administration

Virtualization platforms

Windows Server administration

DNS administration

IPAM/DHCP

Puppet

Ansible

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Tools

VMware ESXi

Hyper-V

Open-source hypervisors

HPE Morpheus VM Essentials

Proxmox

Nutanix

Incus

Job description

NPR is seeking a Systems Engineer for the Distribution IT Infrastructure team to manage, test, and maintain enterprise virtualization, servers, storage, and networking systems. You will deploy and troubleshoot VMware, Proxmox, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, or Nutanix to guarantee high availability and security across NPR's core distribution technologies.

The role sits at the intersection of physical and private cloud infrastructure, collaborating with Infrastructure and Security.