Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Addison Group; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401K

Job summary

Addison Group seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to own the architecture, implementation, and operations of enterprise infrastructure with a focus on Linux, virtualization, and storage. The role drives modernization, reliability, and security across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will lead projects on hardware refreshes, storage migrations, virtualization upgrades, and platform modernization while mentoring the team and coordinating with business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive experience supporting enterprise Linux, virtualization, and storage infrastructure.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale Linux server platforms.
• Extensive experience administering VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V, or comparable virtualization platforms.
• Strong experience with enterprise storage technologies, including SAN, NAS, replication, snapshots, and storage performance optimization.
• Experience executing storage migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and virtualization modernization projects.
• Experience supporting highly available, global, or multi-site environments.
• Working knowledge of backup and recovery platforms such as CommVault, Veeam, Rubrik, or similar solutions.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments and integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure or AWS services.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Experience implementing infrastructure security controls, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise Linux and multi-platform server environments.
• Support the deployment, management, and optimization of hypervisor platforms such as VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V, and cloud-based virtualization services.
• Manage and administer enterprise storage platforms like NetApp, Dell Powervault, and related SAN/NAS technologies.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure performance, capacity, availability, and resource utilization across compute, storage, and virtualization environments.
• Design and maintain highly available, resilient, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Perform storage provisioning, replication, snapshot management, performance tuning, and lifecycle management activities.
• Manage virtualization clusters, host lifecycle management, virtual machine provisioning, migrations, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Administer Linux operating systems including system hardening, patching, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and automation.

Skills

Linux Server Admin

Infrastructure Automation

Disaster Recovery

Cloud Integration

Education

RHCE

RHCSA

VMCE

LPIC

VCP/NCP

Azure/AWS Cloud

Tools

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV

Hyper-V

NetApp Storage

Dell Powervault

Veeam

Commvault

Job description

Addison Group seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to own the architecture, implementation, and operations of enterprise infrastructure with a focus on Linux, virtualization, and storage. The role drives modernization, reliability, and security across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will lead projects on hardware refreshes, storage migrations, virtualization upgrades, and platform modernization while mentoring the team and coordinating with business stakeholders.