Network Engineer (Server and storage expertise)

Jobot; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k)

Paid time off

Professional development

Additional company benefits

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Senior Server, Storage & Network Engineer to design, implement, and support customer infrastructure across server, storage, virtualization, backup, and networking. The role emphasizes hands-on work in environments serving K-12 and higher education customers.

Location is South Carolina with hybrid work: home-based when not traveling to customer sites and office options. Travel up to 75% across the southeastern US; contract-to-hire with immediate start.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and supporting server, storage, virtualization, and networking environments.
• Proven ability to translate customer requirements into infrastructure designs and plans.
• Strong customer-facing communication and project leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployments, migrations, upgrades, and technology refresh projects from planning to handoff.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot servers, storage, virtualization, and backup platforms.
• Configure networks, DNS/DHCP, and hybrid infrastructure integrations.
• Support Exchange, M365/Google environments, and on-premises/hybrid setups.
• Mentor engineers and document configurations and standards.

Skills

Server administration

Storage engineering

Networking

Virtualization

Backup & DR

Windows Server

Linux

SAN/NAS

Hypervisors

Microsoft 365 / Google environments

Tools

SAN/NAS storage

Hypervisors

Switches/ Routers/ Firewalls

DNS/DHCP

Job description

Job details

This Jobot Job is hosted by: Adrionna Roy

Salary: $100,000 - $130,000 per year

A bit about us

A technology solutions provider and VAR. They work heavily with K-12 and higher-ed customers throughout the Southeast, helping them design, implement and support their infrastructure. This role is very hands-on and customer-facing - they need someone who can go into an environment and work across server, storage, virtualization and networking rather than being siloed into just one area.

Why join us

Location: South Carolina / Southeast US customer territory

Work Arrangement: Home-based when not traveling to customer sites; employees are also welcome to work from the office

Permanent Salary Range: $110,000-$130,000

Job Details

Senior Server, Storage & Network Engineer

Logistics

Location: South Carolina / Southeast U.S. customer territory

Work Arrangement: Home-based when not traveling to customer sites; employees are also welcome to work from the office

Employment Type: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire

Contract Pay Rate: $50-$62/hour

Permanent Salary Range: $110,000-$130,000

Conversion: The company is specifically looking for someone who wants to transition into a full-time permanent position after the initial 6-month contract period.

Travel: Up to 75% throughout the southeastern U.S., including occasional overnight travel. Company-paid/reimbursed business travel, including mileage and hotel expenses, in accordance with company policy.

Start: ASAP

Benefits Upon Permanent Hire

• Health coverage
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Professional development
• Additional company benefits

Bonus

Potential project-based bonuses; no scheduled or guaranteed annual bonus

Position Overview

Our client is a value-added reseller and technology solutions provider serving customers throughout the southeastern United States, with a significant focus on K-12 school districts and higher education institutions.

We are seeking a Senior Server, Storage & Network Engineer to design, implement, and support customer infrastructure solutions across server, storage, virtualization, backup, and networking environments.

This role is ideal for a well-rounded infrastructure engineer who can work across traditionally separate technical areas. Server and storage expertise is a major focus, but this person must also be capable of configuring and troubleshooting the networking required to make the complete environment operational. We are not looking for someone limited exclusively to server administration or a Cisco/network-only background.

The engineer will work directly with customers, lead technical implementations, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, and take projects from planning through deployment and operational handoff.

Experience within a VAR, MSP, systems integrator, or professional services environment is highly desirable. Experience supporting K-12 or higher education customers is strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Design & Technical Consulting

• Assess customer infrastructure and recommend solutions based on technical requirements, existing environments, staffing, budgets, and long-term needs.
• Design secure, reliable, and scalable server, storage, virtualization, backup, and network solutions.
• Translate customer requirements into practical infrastructure designs and implementation plans.
• Partner with sales and account teams during technical discovery, solution validation, demonstrations, and proposal development.
• Develop technical designs, bills of materials, statements of work, and implementation estimates.
• Clearly explain technical recommendations and tradeoffs to IT teams, administrators, and organizational leadership.

Implementation & Project Delivery

• Lead customer infrastructure deployments, migrations, upgrades, and technology refresh projects from planning through final handoff.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot physical servers, hypervisors, SAN/NAS storage, and backup platforms.
• Configure and troubleshoot switches, routers, firewalls, wireless networks, VPNs, VLANs, and routing.
• Configure Windows Server and/or Linux environments, directory services, DNS, DHCP, segmentation, and infrastructure integrations.
• Support on-premises Exchange, Microsoft 365/Office 365, Google environments, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Implement high availability, replication, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Coordinate with project managers, customers, vendors, and subcontractors to keep implementations within scope and schedule.
• Validate completed environments, document configurations, train customer teams, and provide effective operational handoffs.

Support & Engineering Operations

• Serve as a senior escalation resource for complex infrastructure issues spanning server, storage, virtualization, backup, and networking.
• Diagnose performance, availability, configuration, and connectivity problems and perform root cause analysis.
• Work directly with manufacturer support teams to resolve hardware and software issues.
• Apply security hardening and infrastructure configuration best practices.
• Automate repetitive deployment and administrative tasks where appropriate.
• Maintain technical documentation, implementation standards, and reusable deployment procedures.
• Mentor other engineers and maintain relevant manufacturer certifications.

Education Customer Support

• Design and support infrastructure for multi-campus K-12 and higher education environments.
• Account for large student/staff device populations, instructional schedules, online testing, enrollment periods, and limited maintenance windows.
• Support infrastructure requirements for learning platforms, student information systems, research, and administrative applications.
• Address student data privacy, web filtering, secure access, identity, and network segmentation requirements.
• Contribute