Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer — VMware/Hyper-V, Remote Friendly

Terabase Energy, Inc.; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote flexibility

401k match

Stock options

Home office setup allowance

Job summary

Terabase Energy, Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own and operate virtualization, server, storage, backup and network infrastructure supporting critical OT/engineering systems in a production environment.

This senior IC role emphasizes reliability, high availability, cybersecurity alignment, and disaster recovery readiness across VMware and Hyper‑V, with on‑call responsibilities, patch windows, and escalation duties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field is required.
• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with VMware ESXi/vCenter and Microsoft Hyper‑V environments.
• Experience with Veeam Backup & Replication and enterprise networking.

Responsibilities

• Own lifecycle management of VMware ESXi/vCenter and Hyper‑V environments.
• Design, maintain, and optimizeHA clusters (VMware HA/DRS and Hyper‑V Failover Clustering).
• Perform hypervisor patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Optimize virtual machine performance and resource allocation.
• Maintain standardized templates and configuration governance.
• Administer and optimize Veeam Backup & Replication; define and maintain RPO/RTO targets.
• Conduct disaster recovery testing and restore validation.
• Maintain multi‑site backup strategies, including full and incremental backups.
• Deploy and troubleshoot enterprise networks, including Firewalling, routing, and switching/VLAN architecture.
• Support patch compliance and vulnerability remediation initiatives.
• Participate in firewall reviews and security hardening efforts.
• Familiarity with industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC‑UA) preferred.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) following outages or service degradation.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, storage health, and system capacity.
• Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, SOPs, and documentation.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and plant outage windows.

Skills

HA & DR design

Root cause analysis

Incident response

Documentation discipline

On-call participation

OT/SCADA experience

VLAN & routing basics

Cybersecurity alignment

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/CE/IS or related field

Tools

VMware ESXi/vCenter

Microsoft Hyper-V

Veeam Backup & Replication

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Terabase Energy, Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own and operate virtualization, server, storage, backup and network infrastructure supporting critical OT/engineering systems in a production environment.

This senior IC role emphasizes reliability, high availability, cybersecurity alignment, and disaster recovery readiness across VMware and Hyper‑V, with on‑call responsibilities, patch windows, and escalation duties.