Senior Data Center Engineer - IT Ops & Security Leader

V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

V-Soft Consulting Group in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Data Center Engineer to lead IT operations, security engineering, and large-scale deployments using Dell Compute, SAN/NAS, and cloud connectivity. The role emphasizes incident management, capacity planning, and performance optimization across diverse environments.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in Technical Operations and Security Engineering, strong ITIL knowledge, and proven leadership in engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 7 years managing IT engineering teams.
• 10 years in Technical Operations and Security Engineering.
• Experience designing ITSM systems and incident metrics.

Responsibilities

• Manage all devices in accordance with the client's policies (security oversight and change management).
• Document and maintain configuration files, IP addressing schemes, configurations, CMDB.
• Ensure administration activities adhere to Change Management processes.
• Limit outages and optimize utilization through proactive analysis of network data and reporting.
• Respond to alerts during incidents and outages.

Skills

IT operations leadership

ITIL concepts

Security operations

Vendor management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ServiceNow

SolarWinds

Infoblox

Rubrik

Oracle

Job description

V-Soft Consulting Group in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Data Center Engineer to lead IT operations, security engineering, and large-scale deployments using Dell Compute, SAN/NAS, and cloud connectivity. The role emphasizes incident management, capacity planning, and performance optimization across diverse environments.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in Technical Operations and Security Engineering, strong ITIL knowledge, and proven leadership in engineering teams.